Film Reviews

8342 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 27/02/2026. 677 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun explores the role and place of the wonderful and the invisible in a gloriously directed film which urges us to read between the lines  

Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Roya by Mahnaz Mohammadi

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Mahnaz Mohammadi’s second feature portrays an imprisoned Iranian woman’s resistance, blending political urgency with powerful psychological depth  

Roya

Roya

Prosecution by Faraz Shariat

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Faraz Shariat returns with a searing indictment of the so-called objectivity of the state, set within a thriller centring on the festival’s most badass protagonist  

Staatsschutz

Staatsschutz

Four Minus Three by Adrian Goiginger

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Austrian director Adrian Goiginger and writer Senad Halilbašić adapt Barbara Pachl-Eberhart’s tragic autobiographical novel into a devastating drama on loss, grief and letting go  

Vier minus drei

Vier minus drei

Paradise by Jérémy Comte

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: An intercontinental story connecting characters from Canada and Ghana is at the core of Jérémy Comte’s ambitious, albeit uneven, debut film  

Paradise

Paradise

A New Dawn by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s feature debut is a visually delicate anime that attempts to mix family mystery, environmental themes and adolescent turmoil  

A New Dawn

A New Dawn

Home Stories by Eva Trobisch

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Eva Trobisch’s third feature is a complex family mosaic that intertwines the personal, the political and the cultural within the specific East German context  

Etwas ganz Besonderes

Etwas ganz Besonderes

Allegro Pastell by Anna Roller

18/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Two urban creatives lead a very cool and entertaining life – at least on the surface of this satisfying and aesthetically pleasing film by Anna Roller  

Allegro Pastell

Allegro Pastell

Our Secret by Grace Passô

18/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: A house is the keeper of grief and secrets in Grace Passô’s story of a black Brazilian family mourning the death of their patriarch  

Nosso segredo

Nosso segredo

A Prayer for the Dying by Dara Van Dusen

18/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: US-Norwegian director Dara Van Dusen’s feature debut is an unorthodox, very dramatic western starring Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly  

A Prayer for the Dying

A Prayer for the Dying

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