Film Reviews

8256 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 02/02/2026. 702 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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

O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times by Pim Zwier

30/11/2021

Pim Zwier’s Best Directing Award winner in the Envision Competition is one of IDFA’s oddest films, and also one of its best  

O, verzamelen van eieren in weerwil van de tijd

O, verzamelen van eieren in weerwil van de tijd

The Shadow Hour by Benjamin Martins

30/11/2021

Germany’s Benjamin Martins leaves realism behind and opts for a more instinctive and expressionistic visual style in his new film  

Schattenstunde

Schattenstunde

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