Film Reviews

8107 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 20/10/2025. 741 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Loli Paradicka by Richard Staviarsky, Víťo Staviarsky

21/06/2019

The feature debut by Víťo and Richard Staviarsky aspires to be a tragicomedy about star-crossed lovers but instead plays to racism and misogyny for laughs  

Loli paradička

Loli paradička

The Mustang by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

18/06/2019

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre delivers an excellent first feature film shot in the US and revolving around a prisoner’s redemption through the training of a mustang  

The Mustang

The Mustang

BATAstories by Peter Kerekes

18/06/2019

Peter Kerekes’ documentary about the Bata shoe empire may skilfully summarise the company’s history but fails to look at its sociocultural significance with a critical eye  

Bata, un cordonnier à la conquête du monde

Bata, un cordonnier à la conquête du monde

Away by Gints Zilbalodis

17/06/2019

The production history of this feature by Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis is fascinating, but it’s what finally made it to the big screen that truly impresses  

Projām

Projām

Kemp. My Best Dance Is Yet to Come by Edoardo Gabbriellini

14/06/2019

Italian actor-director Edoardo Gabbriellini delivers a great documentary, competing in Bologna’s Biografilm Festival, in which contemporary dance icon Lindsay Kemp tells his own story  

Kemp. My Best Dance Is Yet to Come

Kemp. My Best Dance Is Yet to Come

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love by Nick Broomfield

13/06/2019

Nick Broomfield tackles the relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen in this heartfelt, touching and romantic documentary  

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin by Werner Herzog

13/06/2019

Werner Herzog fashions a warm documentary tribute to his great friend and fellow maverick, British travel writer Bruce Chatwin  

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Marona's Fantastic Tale by Anca Damian

12/06/2019

Anca Damian puts her name to a remarkable animated film, a simple, tender and moving story suffused with visual and musical poetry of great inventiveness  

Marona's Fantastic Tale

Marona's Fantastic Tale

Mother by Kristof Bilsen

11/06/2019

Kristof Bilsen’s beautiful doc focuses on a caregiver in Chiang Mai, Thailand, who works in a home for European Alzheimer’s sufferers  

Mother

Mother

My Father the Spy by Gints Grūbe, Jaak Kilmi

11/06/2019

This compelling documentary by Gints Grube and Jaak Kilmi takes a look at the secret life of a Cold War double agent as his daughter sets out on a journey into the past  

My Father the Spy

My Father the Spy

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