Film Reviews

8108 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 21/10/2025. 740 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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

Tainted Souls by Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini

02/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini have adapted the Walter Siti novel, crafting a patchwork of lives in the working-class suburbs  

Il contagio

Il contagio

Lean on Pete by Andrew Haigh

02/09/2017

VENICE 2017: British director Andrew Haigh's latest is an adaptation of a novel by singer and author Willy Vlautin and something of a departure from his previous work  

Lean on Pete

Lean on Pete

Hunting Season by Natalia Garagiola

02/09/2017

VENICE 2017: In her film screening in the Critics’ Week, debutant Argentinian director Natalia Garagiola observes a father-son relationship in need of mutual maturation  

Temporada de caza

Temporada de caza

Crater by Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino

02/09/2017

VENICE 2017: The first fiction feature film by Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino tells the story of a Neapolitan father trying to cash in on the musical talent of his adolescent daughter  

Il Cratere

Il Cratere

Longing by Savi Gabizon

01/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Israeli director Savi Gabizon returns after a 14-year hiatus with his new film, an acute and fascinating reflection on paternity and how to smile in the face of death  

Ga'agua

Ga'agua

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