Film Reviews

7965 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 25/08/2025. 757 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile by Marie Luise Lehner

21/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Austrian director Marie Luise Lehner sends a young girl on a journey to turn the shame of her origin into a feeling of belonging and pride  

Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst

Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst

Houses by Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum

21/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Israeli filmmaker Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum creates a dark dreamscape with her tale of a trans person undertaking a tour of his old family residences  

Batim

Batim

Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai

21/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Kateryna Gornostai’s mosaic-like, simultaneously sober and emotional observational documentary depicts school life across war-torn Ukraine  

Strichka chasu

Strichka chasu

The Safe House by Lionel Baier

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Lionel Baier delivers an atypical, colourful and high-energy film which sees history crossing paths with the story of an eccentric family in their Parisian apartment in May ‘68  

La cache

La cache

Beginnings by Jeanette Nordahl

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Trine Dyrholm’s powerhouse performance drives Jeanette Nordahl’s second feature, a sophisticated, grounded and universally relatable family drama  

Begyndelser

Begyndelser

Late Shift by Petra Volpe

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: The Teachers’ Lounge’s Leonie Benesch gives a stellar performance in Petra Volpe’s new hospital drama  

Heldin

Heldin

Yunan by Ameer Fakher Eldin

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: It was a risky move for Ameer Fakher Eldin to make a subdued film about an exiled writer who’s lost his inspiration and the will to live; sadly, the gamble did not pay off  

Yunan

Yunan

Janine Moves to the Country by Jan Eilhardt

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Jan Eilhardt stages a queer confrontation with sometimes hostile, sometimes freeing encounters that emerge from ignorant, insular communities  

Janine zieht aufs Land

Janine zieht aufs Land

Delicious by Nele Mueller-Stöfen

20/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Nele Mueller-Stöfen’s film is an unsettling thriller with a social bent, which doesn't fully succeed in shocking its audience  

Delicious

Delicious

Kontinental '25 by Radu Jude

19/02/2025

BERLINALE 2025: Radu Jude returns with another funny, anarchic film about guilt, systemic neglect and Romanian identity, this time all shot on an iPhone  

Kontinental '25

Kontinental '25

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