Film Reviews

8118 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 23/10/2025. 738 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Burning Hearts by Pippo Mezzapesa

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Pippo Mezzapesa’s movie starring pop singer Elodie is a mechanical black and white revenge western set in Apulia  

Ti mangio il cuore

Ti mangio il cuore

Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Echoes of Indonesia’s 31-year dictatorship abound in the present, in debutant Makbul Mubarak’s sombre political drama  

Autobiography

Autobiography

The Happiest Man in the World by Teona Strugar Mitevska

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Thirty years on, the war in Bosnia still festers under the surface, its wounds ready to erupt at any point, as Teona Strugar Mitevska’s feature demonstrates  

NajsreЌniot čovek na svetot / Najsretniji čovjek

NajsreЌniot čovek na svetot / Najsretniji čovjek

Monica by Andrea Pallaoro

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Andrea Pallaoro’s third film fails to hold the audience’s attention, relying too heavily on things left unsaid and a soporific pace  

Monica

Monica

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

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