Film Reviews

8048 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 16/09/2025. 743 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Elisa by Leonardo Di Costanzo

05/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Loosely based on a real-life news item analysed in a criminology text, Leonardo Di Costanzo lends a voice to the perpetrator of a ferocious family crime  

Elisa

Elisa

Who Is Still Alive by Nicolas Wadimoff

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Nicolas Wadimoff brings nine Palestinian refugees together to listen to stories about their previous lives in Gaza, lending a face to the despair of a people who are losing everything  

Qui vit encore

Qui vit encore

I Want Her Dead by Gianluca Matarrese

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Gianluca Matarrese continues to demonstrate his mastery of the conversation-centric documentary, turning his camera on his own family  

Il quieto vivere

Il quieto vivere

Waking Hours by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini’s modest documentary stays in the darkness, but it makes its point very clearly  

Waking Hours

Waking Hours

The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes  

The Voice of Hind Rajab

The Voice of Hind Rajab

AGON by Giulio Bertelli

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Giulio Bertelli’s atmospheric debut is structured around three parallel portraits of sportswomen embodying different shades of fragility and strength  

AGON

AGON

Duse by Pietro Marcello

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Pietro Marcello delivers an unconventional biopic on the iconic Italian theatre actress Eleonora Duse who’s sensitively played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi  

Duse

Duse

Tired of Killing by Daniele Vicari

04/09/2025

VENICE 2025: With plenty of concessions to genre cinema, Daniele Vicari tells the story of the son of a Calabrian mafia boss in the 1970s who rebels against his destiny  

Ammazzare stanca. Autobiografia di un assassino

Ammazzare stanca. Autobiografia di un assassino

The Ivy by Ana Cristina Barragán

03/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Ana Cristina Barragán’s intimate portrait of healing is an emotionally raw story hinging on the relationship between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy  

Hiedra

Hiedra

Cotton Queen by Suzannah Mirghani

03/09/2025

VENICE 2025: In spite of its title, Suzannah Mirghani’s impressive debut, following a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation, avoids any fluff  

Cotton Queen

Cotton Queen

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