In a festival where philosophizing hitmen have revealed the tedium and current poverty of the subgenre, leave it to Richard Linklater to make the ultimate philosophizing hitman movie (the protagonist is literally a philosophy teacher) and somehow end up with a masterpiece.
Full review: www.vulture.com/2023/09/richard-linklaters-hit-man-will-make-glen-powell-a-star.html
Seen at Sala Grande, Venice Film Festival