Film Reviews

8118 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 23/10/2025. 738 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Daphne by Peter Mackie Burns

03/10/2017

Peter Mackie Burns's first feature film leads us into the messy and tormented everyday life of a young woman, who is both free and radiant, despite the odds being against her  

Daphne

Daphne

The Wife by Björn Runge

03/10/2017

Glenn Close plays the titular spouse in Björn Runge’s film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel  

The Wife

The Wife

Los perros by Marcela Said

03/10/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Marcela Said rakes through Chile’s troubled past in this story of the relationship between an upper-class woman and her riding instructor  

Los perros

Los perros

Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi

02/10/2017

Hitting Italian cinemas is Giacomo Durzi's documentary, which focuses on Elena Ferrante, listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the world  

Ferrante Fever

Ferrante Fever

Al Berto by Vicente Alves do Ó

02/10/2017

Vicente Alves do Ó focuses on the youth of Portuguese poet Al Berto, in a character-driven film set against the backdrop of post-revolutionary Portugal  

Al Berto

Al Berto

The Captain by Robert Schwentke

30/09/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: From Robert Schwentke comes this fable, set in Germany in the final throes of the Second World War, about the value of justice when all traces of humanity have been lost  

Der Hauptmann

Der Hauptmann

Beyond Words by Urszula Antoniak

30/09/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Urszula Antoniak presents a fiction film doubling as an essay on linguistics and the impossibility of expressing nationalist sentiment through language  

Pomiedzy slowami

Pomiedzy slowami

The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Nobuhiro Suwa

30/09/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Nobuhiro Suwa cooks up a breathtaking metacinematic concoction that plays with three of cinema’s most basic elements: time, hope and Jean-Pierre Léaud  

Le Lion est mort ce soir

Le Lion est mort ce soir

The Sower by Marine Francen

29/09/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: French filmmaker Marine Francen’s feature-length debut, screening in the New Directors section, spirits the viewer to a hamlet inhabited entirely by women  

Le Semeur

Le Semeur

Ravens by Jens Assur

29/09/2017

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2017: Swedish director Jens Assur offers a compelling, atmospheric first feature starring the excellent Reine Brynolfsson and Jacob Nordström  

Korparna

Korparna

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