Ocean's Eleven stars Clooney and Pitt reunite as underworld fixers who have more in common than they'd like to admit – the result is a laidback bromantic comedy which lacks spark.

Jude Law plays an FBI agent on the trail of Nicholas Hoult's criminal in another "intense" film about murderers from Macbeth and Nitram director, Justin Kurzel.

In Babygirl, which stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, director Halina Reijn portrays a torrid office affair in all its "messy complexity" – it's "moving" and "darkly funny".

Pablo Larraín's fact-based drama, starring Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas, is witty and beautiful, but "this Callas is an icon rather than a human being".

Arriving 36 years on, this follow-up to the director's classic supernatural comedy is a gleefully zany farce packed with knock-out punchlines and great practical effects.

The Selma director is back with a drama centring on writer Isabel Wilkerson and her research into systemic injustice. It's fiercely focused and full of heart, writes Steph Green.

Richard Linklater's New Orleans crime yarn starring Glen Powell is "delightful" and "genuinely fun", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film Festival.

What does the inclusion at the Venice Film Festival of Luc Besson, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen say about the film industry's attitude to controversy, asks Nicholas Barber.