Film Reviews

8199 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 02/12/2025. 708 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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

Snowing Darkness by Gabriel Achim

01/12/2021

Romanian director Gabriel Achim returns with a mystifying film on grief and meaning, starring the captivating Bogdan Dumitrache  

Uneori ninge cu zăpadă, alteori cu întuneric

Uneori ninge cu zăpadă, alteori cu întuneric

Alice, Through the Looking by Adam Donen

01/12/2021

Experimental theatre director and symphony composer Adam Donen comes to Black Nights with a very free, and very loopy, adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic  

Alice, Through the Looking

Alice, Through the Looking

Unsophisticated Lady by Antonin Peretjatko

01/12/2021

Antonin Peretjatko delivers a subtle, quietly crazy and socially biting comedy dressed up as a seemingly flippant yet highly entertaining vaudeville movie  

La Pièce rapportée

La Pièce rapportée

Trafficante di virus by Costanza Quatriglio

30/11/2021

Based on the book by the scientist and virus researcher Ilaria Capua, Costanza Quatriglio’s film is a mosaic whose many pieces fail to fit together  

Trafficante di virus

Trafficante di virus

The Wait by Aku Louhimies

30/11/2021

The new film by Finnish director Aku Louhimies is a feminist tale of desire that feels like a foregone conclusion  

Odotus

Odotus

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