Film Reviews

7893 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 10/07/2025. 758 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzì

04/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Paolo Virzì’s much anticipated American debut stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an unwell elderly couple travelling across America on one last trip  

The Leisure Seeker

The Leisure Seeker

The Gulf by Emre Yeksan

04/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Through an allegorical, dystopian story, debutant Emre Yeksan raises awareness of a possible catastrophic event, while making a clear social comment on his homeland  

Körfez

Körfez

Looking for Oum Kulthum by Shirin Neshat

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat directs a movie about the legendary Egyptian singer, a biopic that thinks outside the box, interweaving cinema and metacinema  

Looking for Oum Kulthum

Looking for Oum Kulthum

The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: In his new movie, presented in Venice’s main competition, Robert Guédiguian looks back in time, surrounded by some of his favourite people  

La Villa

La Villa

Reinventing Marvin by Anne Fontaine

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Anne Fontaine skilfully recounts the moving journey and quest for identity of a young boy who is very different from his oppressive milieu  

Marvin ou la belle éducation

Marvin ou la belle éducation

Sarah Plays a Werewolf by Katharina Wyss

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: In her first feature, shown in the International Critics’ Week, Katharina Wyss proves that all these pop songs were right after all: there is nothing quite as hard as being a teenage girl  

Sarah joue un loup garou

Sarah joue un loup garou

Oblivion Verses by Alireza Khatami

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: In his first feature, selected for Venice's Orizzonti, Iranian director Alireza Khatami proves that there is life to magic realism that extends far beyond Latin America  

Les versets de l'oubli

Les versets de l'oubli

The Ark of Disperata by Edoardo Winspeare

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: The new film by Edoardo Winspeare, included in the competition in the Orizzonti section, narrates yet another tale set in Salento, the filmmaker’s birthplace  

La vita in comune

La vita in comune

Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz

03/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Samuel Maoz’s new movie tells three stories preoccupied with young Israeli conscripts, the Holocaust and the country’s uneasy relationship with its neighbours  

Foxtrot

Foxtrot

Orchestra Class by Rachid Hami

02/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Kad Merad goes full Michelle Pfeiffer in Rachid Hami’s crowd-pleaser, which owes a huge debt to Dangerous Minds, with an added helping of string instruments  

La Mélodie

La Mélodie

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