Film Reviews

8343 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 04/03/2026. 677 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

The Whaler Boy by Philipp Yuryev

05/09/2020

VENICE 2020: In Philipp Yuryev’s absorbing debut film, competing in the Giornate degli Autori, an adolescent from the Russian Far East discovers love in an adult chat room and dreams of America  

The Whaler Boy

The Whaler Boy

Gaza mon amour by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser

04/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Relaying the tribulations of an elderly fisherman, brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser deliver a subtly stripped-back work, painting an ironic picture of the state of play in the Gaza Strip  

Gaza mon amour

Gaza mon amour

The Book of Vision by Carlo Hintermann

04/09/2020

VENICE 2020: The first work by producer and documentarian Carlo Hintermann, collaborated upon by Terrence Malick, packs a highly gratifying visual punch but its story becomes lost in esoteric themes  

The Book of Vision

The Book of Vision

Quo Vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Žbanić

03/09/2020

VENICE 2020: There is no time to catch one’s breath in Jasmila Žbanić’s powerful film, closing in on a teacher-turned-translator for the UN in Srebrenica trying to find her way  

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Lovers by Nicole Garcia

03/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Nicole Garcia signs an excellent film noir centred on a fatal love triangle and set against the backdrop of the attractive power of money in the modern world  

Amants

Amants

A este lado del mundo by David Trueba

03/09/2020

David Trueba turns the knife in the wound of immigration by confronting his protagonist with a problem that can usually be sidestepped in the comfortable life of the most advanced countries  

A este lado del mundo

A este lado del mundo

Oasis by Ivan Ikić

03/09/2020

VENICE 2020: In his second feature, Serbian director Ivan Ikić revisits his approach from Barbarians but this time goes for a much more challenging milieu  

Oaza

Oaza

Honey Cigar by Kamir Aïnouz

03/09/2020

VENICE 2020: Kamir Aïnouz opens Giornate degli Autori with her first work about a young woman trying to find her own path, but caught between two cultures  

Cigare au miel

Cigare au miel

The Ties by Daniele Luchetti

03/09/2020

VENICE 2020: In Daniele Luchetti’s opening film of the 77th Venice Film Festival, unhappiness is something to be shared with the whole family  

Lacci

Lacci

Apples by Christos Nikou

02/09/2020

VENICE 2020: The Orizzonti section has a high standard to maintain as it opens with Christos Nikou’s delightful, deadpan debut  

Mila

Mila

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