Film Reviews

7904 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 15/07/2025. 765 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Nezouh by Soudade Kaadan

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: By way of an allegory and against a backdrop of female emancipation, Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan explores the dilemma of whether to stay or leave a town destroyed by war  

Nezouh

Nezouh

Athena by Romain Gavras

03/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Romain Gavras delivers an adrenaline-fuelled and highly emotional family tragedy that doubles as a potent allegory for the tensions of the French banlieue  

Athena

Athena

Blue Jean by Georgia Oakley

03/09/2022

VENICE 2022: The feature debut by the UK’s Georgia Oakley tells of the difficulties of being gay in Thatcher’s Britain through the story of a teacher forced to conceal her identity  

Blue Jean

Blue Jean

Beating Sun by Philippe Petit

03/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Philippe Petit signs a very engaging first feature film about a landscape gardener trying to overcome obstacles in the way of a personal and utopian open garden project  

Tant que le soleil frappe

Tant que le soleil frappe

Casa Susanna by Sébastien Lifshitz

03/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Digging into his favourite topic of the different facets of identity, Sébastien Lifshitz signs a remarkable documentary on a phalanstery of American transvestites in the 1950s and 1960s  

Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna

Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino

03/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Luca Guadagnino delivers a finger-licking good melodrama that might be this festival’s very best  

Bones and All

Bones and All

For My Country by Rachid Hami

02/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Rachid Hami signs a work at once expansive and sensitive on the place of each individual and the recognition of others in a family microcosm and in the macrocosm of France  

Pour la France

Pour la France

The Sitting Duck by Jean-Paul Salomé

02/09/2022

VENICE 2022: A whistleblower or a malingerer? Jean-Paul Salomé’s captivating thriller looks back on the real-life misadventures of a trade unionist played by the great Isabelle Huppert  

La Syndicaliste

La Syndicaliste

A Couple by Frederick Wiseman

02/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Frederick Wiseman tries his hand at fiction for a second time, delivering a radical work about the passion and torments of Sophie Tolstoi vis-à-vis her famous husband  

Un couple

Un couple

Padre Pio by Abel Ferrara

02/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Abel Ferrara depicts the inner turmoil of the monk before he became an icon of Catholicism, alongside the turmoil of a people denied their rights  

Padre Pio

Padre Pio

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