The Venice Film Festival got underway earlier this week, and reactions to some of the highly-anticipated world premieres are starting to arrive.

Justin Kurzel’s THE ORDER, which stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron, is based on the 1989 non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt.

As baffled law enforcement scrambles for answers about a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists through the Pacific Northwest in 1983, a lone FBI agent stationed in the sleepy, picturesque Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists inspired by a radical, charismatic leader plotting a devastating war against the United States government.

The film will compete for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, then launch in US theaters in limited release on December 6th, 2024. You can find the release date on our in theaters calendar.

Looks like the word out of Venice is mostly positive: