Film Reviews

7959 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 21/08/2025. 755 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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

Coup de chance by Woody Allen

05/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Woody Allen’s latest is a pleasant comedy-thriller and a kind of “comfort food” for lovers of the New York-born veteran  

Coup de chance

Coup de chance

The Dreamer by Anaïs Tellenne

05/09/2023

VENICE 2023: Raphaël Thiéry and Emmanuelle Devos shine in Anaïs Tellenne’s debut feature, an unusual movie with an insidious charm about opinions, judgements, monstrosity and art  

L'homme d'argile

L'homme d'argile

Pet Shop Days by Olmo Schnabel

05/09/2023

VENICE 2023: A couple of messed-up kids hit sleazy New York’s wild side in Olmo Schnabel’s debut feature  

Pet Shop Days

Pet Shop Days

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