Film Reviews

8211 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 19/12/2025. 698 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story by Luck Razanajaona

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Luck Razanajaona puts Madagascar on the world cinema map with a debut fiction feature painting an illuminating portrait of the stormy climate which reigns and endures on this island  

Disco Afrika : une histoire malgache

Disco Afrika : une histoire malgache

My New Friends by André Téchiné

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Isabelle Huppert’s charisma isn’t enough to elevate André Téchiné’s new film, which tries to erase the boundaries between seemingly irreconcilable worlds  

Les gens d’à côté

Les gens d’à côté

Cidade; Campo by Juliana Rojas

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Juliana Rojas’ newest film is a slow-burn diptych that examines the complex entanglement between city and countryside in contemporary Brazil  

Cidade; Campo

Cidade; Campo

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 by Abdenour Zahzah

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Algeria's Abdenour Zahzah dedicates his fiction feature film to psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and the pioneering role he played in liberating “the sick” from the prison of asylums  

Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956

Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956

Maria’s Silence by Dāvis Sīmanis

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Dāvis Sīmanis’s film is rich in historical references and complex visual poeticism, yet it’s one of his most classical fictions to date  

Marijas klusums

Marijas klusums

Reas by Lola Arias

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Lola Arias’s prison musical amplifies the voices of a remarkable pleiad of characters with a non-professional cast reconstructing their days of incarceration  

Reas

Reas

Elbow by Asli Özarslan

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Aslı Özarslan's coming-of-age film set in the Berlin immigrant community and Istanbul stands out for its storytelling economy, unusually dark atmosphere, and thematic variety and depth  

Ellbogen

Ellbogen

The Visitor by Bruce LaBruce

19/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Transgressive and proud of it, Bruce LaBruce shows us, with his latest powerful film, that he has lost none of his subversive energy  

The Visitor

The Visitor

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

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