Film Reviews

8276 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 06/02/2026. 701 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

The Great Magic by Noémie Lvovsky

12/12/2022

Where some people see walls, others see the sea. Noémie Lvovsky offers up a joyous interlude in the form of a musical and a light-hearted parable on existential themes  

La Grande Magie

La Grande Magie

Wild Seas by Héloïse Pelloquet

08/12/2022

Héloïse Pelloquet displays great filmmaking prowess with a lucid first feature film carried by Cécile de France playing a woman at a sentimental turning point in her life  

La passagère

La passagère

Winners by Hassan Nazer

08/12/2022

Hassan Nazer’s affable second feature follows a young Afghan refugee in a remote area of Iran, who miraculously comes into possession of Asghar Farhadi’s 2017 Oscar statuette  

Winners

Winners

The Chambermaid by Mariana Cengel-Solcanská

06/12/2022

Although focused on a lesbian relationship in an unusual context, Mariana Cengel-Solcanská’s film remains a clichéd period drama  

Slúžka

Slúžka

The Pioneers by Luca Scivoletto

05/12/2022

Luca Scivoletto’s film debut nostalgically highlights the comical sides of political militancy as it once was, but it lacks the irreverent verve of the book on which it’s based  

I Pionieri

I Pionieri

The Winter of One Spring by Milan Nikodijević

05/12/2022

Milan Nikodijević tells the story behind an iconic photo and portrays the experience of the Prague Spring from the point of view of Yugoslav FAMU pupils studying at that time  

The Winter of One Spring

The Winter of One Spring

Orlando by Daniele Vicari

01/12/2022

Shot in Brussels, Daniele Vicari’s movie depicts an affectionate coming together and clashing of two generations and, potentially, two forms of cinema  

Orlando

Orlando

Sashenka by Alexander Zhovna

01/12/2022

Olexandr Zhovna’s sophomore feature shows enough to unsettle, but things get too convoluted and confusing along the way  

Sashenka

Sashenka

Phi 1.618 by Theodore Ushev

29/11/2022

Bulgarian-Canadian animator Theodore Ushev's first feature is an anti-utopia fairytale that questions scientific progress against the backdrop of post-communist decadence  

Phi 1.618

Phi 1.618

Upon Entry by Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez

29/11/2022

Filmmakers Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez present an interesting debut somewhere between drama and black comedy  

Upon Entry

Upon Entry

Privacy Policy