Film Reviews

8131 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 31/10/2025. 726 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Grand Ciel by Akihiro Hata

05/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Akihiro Hata’s debut feature delves into a dystopian construction site, blending social themes with an eerie atmosphere  

Grand Ciel

Grand Ciel

Straight Circle by Oscar Hudson

05/09/2025

VENICE 2025: This punkish satire by Oscar Hudson feels so timely it hurts  

Straight Circle

Straight Circle

Kabul, Between Prayers by Aboozar Amini

05/09/2025

VENICE 2025: Aboozar Amini’s sophomore feature-length documentary adopts a gentle approach to exploring the lives of two brothers shaped by Kabul under the Taliban  

Kabul, Between Prayers

Kabul, Between Prayers

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

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