Film Reviews

7874 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 05/07/2025. 750 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Keep Quiet by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin

25/10/2016

This British documentary is about one of the founders of Jobbik, who makes a U-turn after discovering his grandmother is an Auschwitz survivor  

Keep Quiet

Keep Quiet

Sand Storm by Elite Zexer

24/10/2016

The tension between tradition and modernity is ramped right up in this family drama from Elite Zexer, Israel’s contender for a golden statuette at next year’s Oscars  

Sufat Chol

Sufat Chol

7 Minutes by Michele Placido

24/10/2016

What are we willing to do for work? This is what Michele Placido explores in his latest film, which was shown at the Rome Film Fest. An Italian-French-Swiss co-production based on a true story  

7 minuti

7 minuti

In Between by Maysaloun Hamoud

21/10/2016

Israeli filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud’s first feature, awarded at San Sebastián and Toronto, portrays three young women struggling to shake off the constraints of conservative society in the Middle East  

Bar Bahar

Bar Bahar

Maria per Roma by Karen Di Porto

20/10/2016

First-time director Karen Di Porto brings us an ironic and wishy-washy piece about the chaotic day of a young woman in the capital, between tourists, casting sessions and delusions  

Maria per Roma

Maria per Roma

The Dazzling Light of Sunset by Salome Jashi

20/10/2016

Salome Jashi's observational documentary shows the life of a community through eyes of a two-part TV crew  

Daisis miziduloba

Daisis miziduloba

A Wedding by Stephan Streker

20/10/2016

In Belgian filmmaker Stephan Streker’s film, young Lina El Arabi is outstanding in the role of a ‘second-generation’ girl who just wants to make her own choices freely  

Noces

Noces

Naples '44 by Francesco Patierno

19/10/2016

Francesco Patierno brings us a documentary based on the book by great memorialist Norman Lewis, with Benedict Cumberbatch as narrator  

Napoli '44

Napoli '44

Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog

18/10/2016

After Telluride and Toronto, the new documentary by the great German director, which will be available on Netflix from 28 October, hits the Rome Film Festival  

Into the Inferno

Into the Inferno

Free Fire by Ben Wheatley

18/10/2016

A deal to buy a stash of guns descends into a hellish bloodbath in Ben Wheatley’s gripping action-comedy  

Free Fire

Free Fire

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