Film Reviews

8212 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 22/12/2025. 699 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

To the North by Mihai Mincan

05/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Mihai Mincan’s fiction debut explores the terrible consequences of kindness  

Spre nord

Spre nord

Blanquita by Fernando Guzzoni

05/09/2022

VENICE 2022: It’s a dark, dark world in Fernando Guzzoni’s well-executed title. And it feels worryingly familiar  

Blanquita

Blanquita

L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese

05/09/2022

VENICE 2022: Emanuele Crialese recounts her gender-fluid adolescence in a sophisticated and colourful film, set apart by the starry presence of Penélope Cruz  

L'immensità

L'immensità

Other People's Children by Rebecca Zlotowski

04/09/2022

VENICE 2022: With brilliantly subtle simplicity, Rebecca Zlotowski paints an incredible portrait of a woman in love, without children, beautifully acted by Virginie Efira  

Les enfants des autres

Les enfants des autres

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

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