Film Reviews

7885 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 08/07/2025. 753 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

We Hold the Line by Marc Wiese

31/03/2020

German director Marc Wiese's thriller-like documentary follows an independent journalist who is under attack by Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte's dictatorship  

We Hold the Line

We Hold the Line

Being Eriko by Jannik Splidsboel

30/03/2020

Japanese pianist Eriko Makimura looks for meaning away from the keyboard in Jannik Splidsboel’s overly one-sided portrait  

Erikos verdener

Erikos verdener

Sisters with Transistors by Lisa Rovner

30/03/2020

It’s synthesiser galore in Lisa Rovner’s proper hit of a documentary, awarded a NEXT:WAVE Special Mention at CPH:DOX  

Sisters with Transistors

Sisters with Transistors

Songs of Repression by Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga

30/03/2020

The winner of the DOX:Award, helmed by Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga, is a rare example of a sober, considerate and nuanced treatment of a potentially incendiary subject  

Songs of Repression

Songs of Repression

Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight by Bartosz M. Kowalski

27/03/2020

Dubbed the “first Polish slasher”, Bartosz M Kowalski’s film is an entertaining horror flick wallowing in nostalgia for the movies of the 1980s  

W lesie dzis nie zasnie nikt

W lesie dzis nie zasnie nikt

The Two Sights by Joshua Bonnetta

26/03/2020

Joshua Bonnetta puts his name to an atmospheric and ethnographic documentary about the endurance of Gaelic culture in The Hebrides, which links the earthly world to the hereafter  

An Dà Shealladh

An Dà Shealladh

Bitter Love by Jerzy Sladkowski

26/03/2020

And the ship sails on in Jerzy Sladkowski’s disarming film, even without Fellini’s rhinoceros  

Bitter Love

Bitter Love

Carrousel by Marina Meijer

25/03/2020

By way of several sensitive, impressionistic portraits, Marina Meijer immerses herself in the microcosm of a young offenders’ rehabilitation centre in Rotterdam  

Carrousel

Carrousel

Skin Walker by Christian Neuman

24/03/2020

The first feature film by Luxembourg director Christian Neuman reveals the filmmaker’s appetite for experiments of all kinds  

Skin Walker

Skin Walker

Long Live Love by Sine Skibsholt

23/03/2020

Part cancer drama, part Gilmore Girls, Sine Skibsholt’s tender Danish documentary shows affection with an attitude  

Lever Elsker Savner

Lever Elsker Savner

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