Film Reviews

8717 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 21/09/2026. 661 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

5 Is the Perfect Number by Igor Tuveri

30/08/2019

VENICE 2019: The first feature by Italian cartoonist Igort, presented in the Giornate degli Autori, goes beyond the clichés of the graphic-novel adaptation  

5 è il numero perfetto

5 è il numero perfetto

Only the Animals by Dominik Moll

29/08/2019

VENICE 2019: Opening the 16th Giornate degli Autori, the sixth film by Dominik Moll is a well-constructed thriller which surprisingly brings together two distant worlds  

Seules les bêtes

Seules les bêtes

The Truth by Hirokazu Kore-eda

29/08/2019

VENICE 2019: With this year’s opening film, Hirokazu Kore-eda proves he is good enough to survive a shoot in another language, but not good enough to avoid every piece of clunky dialogue  

La Vérité

La Vérité

The Euphoria of Being by Réka Szabó

27/08/2019

Sarajevo’s Human Rights Award winner is a multi-layered documentary about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and a dance performance based on her life  

A létezés eufóriája

A létezés eufóriája

Burning Ghost by Stéphane Batut

27/08/2019

The winner of the Jean Vigo Award after its Cannes ACID premiere, Stéphane Batut’s debut fiction feature, a heady mix of realism and fantasy, shines thanks to its poetic and romantic audacity  

Vif-argent

Vif-argent

Variações: Guardian Angel by João Maia

26/08/2019

João Maia’s project, several years in the making, is set to be one of the most popular Portuguese films of the year  

Variações

Variações

Happy Birthday by Cédric Kahn

26/08/2019

Between fantasy and tragedy, Cédric Kahn’s chamber film plunges into the troubles of a family, scratching beneath the surface of mere appearances  

Fête de famille

Fête de famille

When the Persimmons Grew by Hilal Baydarov

26/08/2019

The Azerbaijani-Austrian production, which won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film, is a meditative, poetic documentary and an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s mother  

Xurmalar Yetişən Vaxt

Xurmalar Yetişən Vaxt

The Golden Girl by Denisa Morariu-Tamas, Adrian Robe

26/08/2019

Romanian directors Denisa Morariu Tamaş and Adrian Robe explore a dramatic moment in the history of competitive gymnastics  

Fata de aur

Fata de aur

143 Sahara Street by Hassen Ferhani

23/08/2019

Hassen Ferhani’s Locarno prizewinning documentary about a truck stop in the Sahara desert is a slow-burning delight  

143 rue du désert

143 rue du désert

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