Film Reviews

7870 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 02/07/2025. 762 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Lovely Boy by Francesco Lettieri

13/09/2021

VENICE 2021: A compulsion to self-destruct and an attempt to start over are the two poles between which Francesco Lettieri’s engaging second work oscillates, set against a trap music backdrop  

Lovely Boy

Lovely Boy

Nobody Has To Know by Bouli Lanners

13/09/2021

Bouli Lanners deterritorialises his cinema to tell, in English, a tender and delicate love story, doubled with a portrait of emancipation and a reflection on memory  

Nobody Has To Know

Nobody Has To Know

Inexorable by Fabrice du Welz

13/09/2021

Fabrice Du Welz delivers an incredibly dark film noir scrutinising an inescapably fatal encounter between a mysterious young woman and a very bourgeois couple  

Inexorable

Inexorable

The Last Duel by Ridley Scott

13/09/2021

VENICE 2021: Ridley Scott helms another Middle Ages-set epic, this time examining the grave topic of sexual assault among members of the French aristocracy  

The Last Duel

The Last Duel

The Accusation by Yvan Attal

11/09/2021

VENICE 2021: Yvan Attal’s empathic take on an ambiguous rape case leaves few aspects untouched, with no monsters to be found  

Les Choses humaines

Les Choses humaines

The Hidden Child by Roberto Andò

11/09/2021

VENICE 2021: The friendship between a Neapolitan piano teacher and a very young Camorra member who’s on the run, is at the heart of Roberto Andò’s new film, adapted from one of his books  

Il bambino nascosto

Il bambino nascosto

Anatomia by Ola Jankowska

11/09/2021

VENICE 2021: Polish helmer Ola Jankowska embraces slow cinema and makes a case for having a selective memory, especially when it comes to past mistakes  

Anatomia

Anatomia

Rhino by Oleh Sentsov

11/09/2021

VENICE 2021: Oleh Sentsov’s new film, following last year’s Numbers, is a good marriage of gangster flick and drama  

Nosorih

Nosorih

The Last Chapter by Gianluca Matarrese

10/09/2021

VENICE 2021: Gianluca Matarrese’s documentary chronicles the relocation of a Parisian BDSM master, giving rise to many memories and stories to be told  

La dernière séance

La dernière séance

Private Desert by Aly Muritiba

10/09/2021

VENICE 2021: This new film by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba tells the story of an impossible love in a chauvinist and homophobic rendering of Brazil  

Deserto particular

Deserto particular

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