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6944 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 04/05/2024. 743 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Vivarium by Lorcan Finnegan

19/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Lorcan Finnegan’s new outing is a slice of involuntary suburban family life, chillingly well executed  

Vivarium

Vivarium

The Wild Goose Lake by Diao Yinan

19/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity  

Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui

Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui

The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu

19/05/2019

CANNES 2019: In his playful new film, Corneliu Porumboiu starts with Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”, and then he rides and he rides – all the way to the Canary Islands  

La Gomera

La Gomera

Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser delivers a very clever and quirky political comedy, with brilliant performances from Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier  

Alice et le maire

Alice et le maire

The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Following her acclaimed feature debut, Wolf and Sheep, Shahrbanoo Sadat continues to explore the recent history of Afghanistan through the eyes of children  

Parwareshgah

Parwareshgah

The Cordillera of Dreams by Patricio Guzmán

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Chile’s Patricio Guzmán makes a scathing condemnation of his country’s social amnesia regarding the Pinochet dictatorship, through an ode to the geographical miracle of the Andes  

La Cordillera de los sueños

La Cordillera de los sueños

Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Sadly, Bruno Dumont’s sequel to his heavy-metal musical Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc has no burning arrangement  

Jeanne

Jeanne

Song Without a Name by Melina León

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Melina León’s film noir tells the story of a mother looking for her kidnapped child in 1980s Peru  

Canción sin nombre

Canción sin nombre

Little Joe by Jessica Hausner

18/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Austria’s Jessica Hausner puts her name to a hugely cerebral psychoanalytical film with a societal focus, flirting with the genre of sci-fi chiller and the world of genetic mutations  

Little Joe

Little Joe

Oleg by Juris Kursietis

17/05/2019

CANNES 2019: Latvia's Juris Kursietis delivers a gritty and ultra-realist film on a form of modern slavery taking place behind the scenes between Eastern European posted workers  

Oleg

Oleg

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