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July's film round-up serves a varied menu: Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex brings cheeky screwball energy and social bite; Kevin Hart's 72 Hours on Netflix leans into generational comedy but is uneven; Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender on Paramount+ dazzles visually yet remains mostly fan-service; Koreeda's Sheep In The Box softer in tone, probes AI surrogate dynamics but struggles to find a tight dramatic through-line.
Deadline reveals the Venice Film Festival 2026 lineup (Sept. 2–12): opening film Ink by Danny Boyle and closing title Dio Ride by Giovanni Veronesi; in-competition titles include Casey Affleck’s directorial debut Company, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Look Back, Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, and Nanni Moretti’s Succederà Questa Notte. Out of Competition features Paul Schrader’s The Basics of Philosophy, Luca Guadagnino’s Bernardo Bertolucci documentary Joie De Vivre, Wim Wenders’ Peter Zumthor doc, and Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger; Laura Poitras presents They’re Here. Maggie Gyllenhaal heads the Competition jury, and George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn receive the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award.
At Cannes 2026, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box imagines a near-future where grieving parents lease a humanoid clone of their dead son, powered by AI. The film treats the unsettling premise with quiet melancholy, focusing on Otone and Kensuke’s struggle to grieve and heal, rather than promoting the technology or warning against it. While it nods to AI-dramas like A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Her, Kore-eda’s restrained approach centers on memory, guilt, and human connection instead of a dystopian alarmist message.