Film Reviews

8131 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 31/10/2025. 725 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Broken English by Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth

30/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have masterminded an embellished portrait of, and by, the late Marianne Faithfull  

Broken English

Broken English

Laguna by Šarūnas Bartas

30/08/2025

VENICE 2025: The new film by Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas is a touching journey through the processing of devastating grief, full of reflections on life, death and nature  

Lagūna

Lagūna

Milk Teeth by Mihai Mincan

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Mihai Mincan’s feature uses documentary-like realism to portray a child’s disappearance amid political upheaval and personal grief  

Dinți de lapte

Dinți de lapte

Strange River by Jaume Claret Muxart

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Jaume Claret Muxart's debut is a beautiful and sensitive physical and mental journey towards the discovery of sexual desire and the first stirrings of individuality - in short, of freedom  

Estrany riu

Estrany riu

At Work by Valérie Donzelli

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Bastien Bouillon excels in Valérie Donzelli’s surprisingly deep dive into the vocation of writing  

À pied d’œuvre

À pied d’œuvre

Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students by Claire Simon

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Claire Simon uses the novelist's writings as a mirror to sketch a portrait that is both simple and subtle of the diversity of contemporary French youth  

Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens

Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens

Father by Tereza Nvotová

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Tereza Nvotová proves that you can, and always should, make a compulsively watchable film about the most harrowing subject  

Otec

Otec

Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Yorgos Lanthimos remakes Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! and unleashes a wickedly playful, grotesque and unsettlingly timely tale of paranoia and power  

Bugonia

Bugonia

Gioia by Nicolangelo Gelormini

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Nicolangelo Gelormini’s second feature is a ruthless dark fable that revolves around the improbable bond between an unscrupulous young man and his naive teacher  

La Gioia

La Gioia

Orphan by László Nemes

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: László Nemes’ visually rich yet narratively uneven film tells a story of fractured families and a wounded nation  

Árva

Árva

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