Film Reviews

7874 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 04/07/2025. 757 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Arcadia by Yorgos Zois

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Yorgos Zois’s second feature sets out as a mysterious erotic thriller with psychological elements, but gradually melts into a predictable relationship (melo)drama  

Arcadia

Arcadia

Dying by Matthias Glasner

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Matthias Glasner’s latest offering is a winning combination of pitch-black humour and warm human drama  

Sterben

Sterben

Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Rose Glass goes all out in her first US-produced film, a campy combination of crime-thriller and lesbian romance starring Kristen Stewart, Ed Harris and Katy O'Brian  

Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding

The Empire by Bruno Dumont

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Featuring lightsabres, spaceships and a war between Good and Evil set in an everyday human context, Bruno Dumont delivers a hilarious satire to be taken with a pinch of salt  

L'Empire

L'Empire

Dahomey by Mati Diop

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Mati Diop’s documentary, which follows the return of works of art stolen in colonial times, is a precious little gem – little in terms of length, but not artistic expression  

Dahomey

Dahomey

Paradises of Diane by Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann

18/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: With courage and poetry, Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann tackle the theme of motherhood, both its darker sides and the consequences of decisions which society struggles to accept  

Les Paradis de Diane

Les Paradis de Diane

No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

18/02/2024

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor sign a moving and intimate debut documentary on the eviction of Palestinians from ancestral West Bank villages  

No Other Land

No Other Land

Maydegol by Sarvnaz Alambeigi

18/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Iran's Sarvnaz Alambeigi delivers a bitter and moving documentary about a 19-year-old exiled Afghan girl, a thai boxing practitioner in a relentless and desperate quest for freedom  

Maydegol

Maydegol

The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt

18/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: In her adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s autobiography, Nora Fingscheidt sends Saoirse Ronan on a journey of abstinence, which is devoid not only of alcohol, but also direction  

The Outrun

The Outrun

A Family by Christine Angot

18/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Christine Angot lifts the veil on the unthinkable in a radical, highly personal and incredibly powerful documentary about the incest she was subjected to in her youth  

Une famille

Une famille

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