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.

My Favourite Cake by Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha

17/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Directorial duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha craft a straightforward but heartfelt dramedy of love and resistance against patriarchy in old age  

Keyke mahboobe man

Keyke mahboobe man

Last Swim by Sasha Nathwani

17/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: A gaggle of London school leavers contend with the first day of the rest of their lives, in Sasha Nathwani’s solid debut  

Last Swim

Last Swim

Meanwhile on Earth by Jérémy Clapin

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Propelled by an innate sense of mise en scène, Jérémy Clapin makes the great leap from animation to fiction with an astonishing movie intertwining genres  

Pendant ce temps sur Terre

Pendant ce temps sur Terre

The Undergrowth by Macu Machín

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Canarian director Macu Machín’s debut feature is an enigmatic documentation of familial bonds and their contradictions  

La hojarasca

La hojarasca

Averroes & Rosa Parks by Nicolas Philibert

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: After his Golden Bear winner On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert is back with a second instalment in his trilogy about mental illness, which is even more impressive than the first  

Averroès & Rosa Parks

Averroès & Rosa Parks

Shahid by Narges Kalhor

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Narges Kalhor’s film is imaginative and rebellious, combining myriad art forms and discarding cinematic traditions, but struggles under the weight of its own ambition  

Shahid

Shahid

Well Ordered Nature by Eva C. Heldmann

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Eva C Heldmann returns with an essay film about 18th-century botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien  

Ihre ergebenste Fräulein

Ihre ergebenste Fräulein

Favoriten by Ruth Beckermann

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Austria’s grande dame of documentary features, Ruth Beckermann, captures a primary-school class over three years in Vienna’s immigrant-heavy Favoriten district  

Favoriten

Favoriten

Crossing by Levan Akin

16/02/2024

BERLINALE 2024: Levan Akin’s new film is a tender buddy movie with an added shot of chacha  

Crossing

Crossing

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande by Tim MacKenzie-Smith

15/02/2024

Tim MacKenzie-Smith largely avoids the pitfalls of the music documentary in this endearing portrait of a British band silenced by racism at home but wildly influential in the decades that followed  

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

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