Film Reviews

7874 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 05/07/2025. 750 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Dark Rider by Eva Küpper

15/12/2021

Belgian documentary-maker Eva Küpper follows in the extraordinary wake of a man attempting to beat the world speed record held by a blind motorbike rider  

Dark Rider

Dark Rider

Singing Jailbirds by Etienne Comar

13/12/2021

Alex Lutz breaks down the doors and the walls of the female prison world by delivering an operatic singing workshop in Étienne Comar’s second feature film  

À l'ombre des filles

À l'ombre des filles

Commitment Hasan by Semih Kaplanoğlu

13/12/2021

The conflict between faith and personal aspirations in a world torn between tradition and modernisation is at the heart of Semih Kaplanoğlu’s film and Turkey’s candidate for the Oscars  

Bağlılık Hasan

Bağlılık Hasan

Fiasco by Nicolas Khoury

10/12/2021

In his very personal, atypical coming-out dramedy, Lebanese filmmaker Nicolas Khoury explores fears and common family dynamics on his road to maturity  

Fayasku

Fayasku

Io sto bene by Donato Rotunno

09/12/2021

Donato Rotunno’s third fiction feature sees two generations of Italian expats crossing paths to paint a simple portrait of the emotional state of immigrants living far from home  

Io sto bene

Io sto bene

Museum of the Revolution by Srdjan Keca

08/12/2021

Serbian director Srdjan Keča's first feature-length documentary deals with incompleteness through the story of a never-finished memorial and three marginalised people living in its basement  

Museum of the Revolution

Museum of the Revolution

Daughters by Nana Neul

06/12/2021

Nana Neul has crafted an intimate road movie on acceptance, loss and daughterhood, which embraces low-key moods and loneliness as normal human states of being  

Töchter

Töchter

The Mute Man of Sardinia by Matteo Fresi

03/12/2021

Italian director Matteo Fresi’s film is a sophisticated western set in Sardinia in 1850 which explores an historic family feud, but which fails to drill down into the reasons behind this madness  

Il muto di Gallura

Il muto di Gallura

Babi Yar. Context by Sergei Loznitsa

02/12/2021

There are no words to describe the massacre that took place in 1941 just outside Kiev, and Sergei Loznitsa is not even trying to find them  

Babi Yar. Context

Babi Yar. Context

Occupation by Michal Nohejl

02/12/2021

In the wake of the Warsaw Pact invasion, a group of Prague theatre people having a post-performance booze session get a menacing visit from a Russian soldier, in Michal Nohejl’s debut  

Okupace

Okupace

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