Film Reviews

7956 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 19/08/2025. 758 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Gloria! by Margherita Vicario

23/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Actress and musician Margherita Vicario’s riveting debut celebrates female composers and their lost legacies  

Gloria!

Gloria!

Who Do I Belong To by Meryam Joobeur

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Meryam Joobeur makes an accomplished first feature film with a thrilling and atmospheric story boldly blending realism, oneirism, the family microcosm and jihadi themes  

Mé el Aïn

Mé el Aïn

Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Min Bahadur Bham delivers a film of great romantic and mystical purity following in the wake of a woman overcoming adversity in the heart of the Himalayas  

Shambhala

Shambhala

Sleep With Your Eyes Open by Nele Wohlatz

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Nele Wohlatz’s transnational feature aligns form and content to create a meandering exploration of language and heritage within the Chinese diaspora of Brazil’s Recife  

Dormir de olhos abertos

Dormir de olhos abertos

Sons by Gustav Möller

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Gustav Möller crafts an accomplished sophomore feature telling us some uncomfortable truths about the lives of prison guards and inmates  

Vogter

Vogter

My Summer with Irène by Carlo Sironi

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Maria Camilla Brandenburg shines in Carlo Sironi’s second feature, which is otherwise subtle to a fault  

Quell’estate con Irène

Quell’estate con Irène

What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? by Faraz Fesharaki

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Faraz Fesharaki’s directorial debut builds a bridge between Iran and Germany out of webcam recordings and shared memories  

Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov?

Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov?

Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Abderrahmane Sissako breaks down the boundaries between Africa and Asia, dream and reality, and past and present in an enigmatic and melancholy film on love and freedom  

Black Tea

Black Tea

Direct Action by Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell

22/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau immerse themselves in the Zadist movement based in Notre-Dame-des-Landes for a hypnotic documentary adopting a radical artistic standpoint  

Direct Action

Direct Action

Foreign Language by Claire Burger

21/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Young actresses Lilith Grasmug and Josefa Heinsius are the beating heart of this coming-of-age drama by Claire Burger, revolving around a language exchange trip to Germany  

Langue Étrangère

Langue Étrangère

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