Film Reviews

8116 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 22/10/2025. 740 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Dovlatov by Aleksei German Jr.

18/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Aleksei German Jr returns with a retrograde portrait of the 1970s-era Soviet Union that says nothing new  

Dovlatov

Dovlatov

The Omission by Sebastián Schjaer

18/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Argentinian filmmaker Sebastián Schjaer's feature debut is a complex social story that requires the viewer to fill in the emotional blanks  

La omisión

La omisión

Eva by Benoît Jacquot

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Benoît Jacquot delves into a world that is poisonous, opaque and strange, hinged on a game of mirrors between Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert  

Eva

Eva

The Waldheim Waltz by Ruth Beckermann

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Ruth Beckermann addresses the infamous 1986 Austrian presidential campaign and ends up with something more timely than one could ever have expected  

Waldheims Walzer

Waldheims Walzer

Tower. A Bright Day by Jagoda Szelc

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Jagoda Szelc’s spectacular feature debut is an utterly immersive cinematic experience  

Wieza. Jasny dzien

Wieza. Jasny dzien

Facing the Wind by Meritxell Colell

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Meritxell Colell Aparicio’s debut feature revolves around brushes with the past in a rural setting where silences and small gestures speak for themselves  

Con el viento

Con el viento

Horizon by Tinatin Kajrishvili

17/02/2018

The second film by Brides director Tinatin Kajrishvili is a layered exploration of the unbearable loss the hero feels after his wife leaves him  

Horizonti

Horizonti

Black 47 by Lance Daly

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: In a well-meaning, if not entirely successful, feature presented out of competition at Berlin, Irish director Lance Daly takes on the Great Famine and ends up with a western  

Black 47

Black 47

The Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi

17/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: The first full-length film by Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi is a vast co-production that focuses on a muted epiphany  

Las herederas

Las herederas

When the War Comes by Jan Gebert

16/02/2018

BERLIN 2018: Czech filmmaker Jan Gebert's first feature-length documentary about a Slovak paramilitary group is scary on many levels, although hardly surprising  

Az prijde válka

Az prijde válka

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