Film Reviews

8129 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 30/10/2025. 731 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams by Luca Guadagnino

11/09/2020

VENICE 2020: In his new documentary, Luca Guadagnino proves that sometimes you can give a director the right shoes, but he still can’t conquer the world  

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

The Truth About La Dolce Vita by Giuseppe Pedersoli

11/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Giuseppe Pedersoli’s debut feature reveals several interesting, behind-the-scenes truths about the production of Fellini’s masterpiece  

La verità su La dolce vita

La verità su La dolce vita

Laila in Haifa by Amos Gitai

11/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Israeli great Amos Gitai crafts a beautiful nocturnal roundelay in an unusual location: a hip bar with an equally Israeli and Palestinian clientele  

Laila in Haifa

Laila in Haifa

New Order by Michel Franco

11/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Michel Franco makes an audacious, unremitting and brutal critique of inequality and its relationship to violence  

Nuevo orden

Nuevo orden

My Best Part by Nicolas Maury

11/09/2020

Nicolas Maury moves into film direction with panache, delivering a melancholy comedy that’s both funny and moving about an anxious, jealous actor struggling with his uniqueness and discontentment  

Garçon chiffon

Garçon chiffon

The Art of Return by Pedro Collantes

10/09/2020

VENICE 2020: The main character in Pedro Collantes’ excellent feature debut experiences the confusion and disorientation that come as part and parcel of a step change  

El arte de volver

El arte de volver

The Flood Won't Come by Marat Sargsyan

10/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Armenia’s Marat Sargsyan delivers an intense, distorted and creatively crafted war film, intertwining abuses and metaphysics and set to a tempo punctuated by sequence shots  

Tvano nebus

Tvano nebus

Conference by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy

10/09/2020

VENICE 2020: The new film from Russian writer-director Ivan I Tverdovskiy is original and unsettling, perhaps his most complex and controversial to date  

Konferentsiya

Konferentsiya

And Tomorrow the Entire World by Julia von Heinz

10/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Julia von Heinz mines her own past as an anti-fascist activist in this fictional drama asking whether the best way to fight violence is through retaliatory violence  

Und morgen die ganze Welt

Und morgen die ganze Welt

200 Meters by Ameen Nayfeh

10/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Competing in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori, the first work by Palestine’s Ameen Nayfeh tells of a father’s absurd journey to reach his family on the other side of the West Bank Barrier  

200 Meters

200 Meters

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