Film Reviews

7902 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 11/07/2025. 767 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Green Border by Agnieszka Holland

07/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Polish leading light Agnieszka Holland returns with an adroit look at Belarus’s disruption of her country’s and the EU’s immigration policies  

Zielona granica

Zielona granica

Housekeeping for Beginners by Goran Stolevski

07/09/2023

VENICE 2023: There’s always time to laugh, cry and sing along in Goran Stolevski’s latest, one of the best films on the Lido this year  

Domakinstvo za pocetnici

Domakinstvo za pocetnici

For Night Will Come by Céline Rouzet

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: An incisive, vampiric teen movie, Céline Rouzet’s debut feature film explores such subjects as the rejection of difference, family solidarity and the injustice of the world  

En attendant la nuit

En attendant la nuit

Enea by Pietro Castellitto

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Pietro Castellitto’s second film, ambitious and exuberant from a directing perspective, presents the bourgeois family environment and the criminal adventure of its young protagonist  

Enea

Enea

Backstage by Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

Backstage

Backstage

Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Focusing on two African teenagers’ voyage to Europe, Matteo Garrone maintains his usual formal rigour but does not give the viewer a true impression of the horrors of migration  

Io Capitano

Io Capitano

Through the Night by Delphine Girard

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Delphine Girard’s hard-hitting and meticulous first feature film revolves around a striking and unprecedented trio: a woman, a rapist and the policewoman who answered her distress call  

Quitter la nuit

Quitter la nuit

The Penitent - A Rational Man by Luca Barbareschi

06/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Luca Barbareschi’s drama makes a clunky attempt to build up a cinematic discourse that rails against the meat grinder of the media, cancel culture and political correctness  

The Penitent

The Penitent

Heartless by Nara Normande, Tião

05/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Nara Normande and Tião capture the sensuality and uncertainty of the end of adolescence in a beguiling first feature film set across the beaches of Northeast Brazil  

Sem coração

Sem coração

El Paraíso by Enrico Maria Artale

05/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Enrico Maria Artale’s new film is a personal look at a seriously flawed mother-son relationship  

El Paraíso

El Paraíso

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