Film Reviews

8211 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 22/12/2025. 698 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Despite the Scars by Felix Rier

19/12/2025

Recounting a rape case, Felix Rier’s documentary shows how dance can be a tool for the body to lend physical form to suffering and become a kind of therapy  

Despite the Scars

Despite the Scars

Hijra by Shahad Ameen

16/12/2025

The second film by Shahad Ameen is a poignant road movie and a portrait of two generations of Saudi women  

Hijra

Hijra

The Soundman by Frank Van Passel

16/12/2025

Flemish filmmaker Frank Van Passel returns with a love story hovering between fairy tale and historical movie  

Radioman

Radioman

D'un monde à l'autre by Jérémie Renier

15/12/2025

Jérémie Rénier delivers a highly personal documentary about the decision to embark on an Arctic expedition to move beyond the death of Gaspard Ulliel  

D'un monde à l'autre

D'un monde à l'autre

Sophia by Dhafer L’Abidine

12/12/2025

Dhafer L’Abidine’s third feature, in which he also stars, is a thriller centring on the disappearance of a six-year-old girl in Tunis  

Sophia

Sophia

Porte Bagage by Abdelkarim El-Fassi

11/12/2025

Abdelkarim El-Fassi takes a Moroccan-Dutch family on a redemptive road trip full of emotional baggage in his feature-length fiction debut  

Porte Bagage

Porte Bagage

My Father's Scent by Mohamed Siam

09/12/2025

Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam’s first narrative feature is an intense family drama that urgently questions the roots of conventional values  

My Father's Scent

My Father's Scent

Spices and Lies by Amine Adjina

09/12/2025

In his feature debut, carried by Younès Boucif and Hiam Abbass, Amine Adjina successfully fuses the tragicomic ingredients of biculturalism in all its complexity  

La Petite Cuisine de Mehdi

La Petite Cuisine de Mehdi

La Condition by Jérôme Bonnell

09/12/2025

Two women try to escape the grip of the patriarchy in 1908 in an astute and wonderfully acted movie, brilliantly directed by Jérôme Bonnell  

La Condition

La Condition

Behind the Palm Trees by Meryem Benm'Barek

04/12/2025

Meryem Benm’Barek’s film lies at the intersection of class and gendered societal expectations, as a Moroccan man becomes corrupted by desire for a wealthy white woman  

Derrière les palmiers

Derrière les palmiers

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