Film Reviews

8218 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 16/01/2026. 702 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Radiance by Naomi Kawase

23/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Naomi Kawase’s latest work, once again a co-production with France, is a true gem of a film: a subtle, moving, abstract and emotional exploration of the experience of sensory impairment  

Hikari

Hikari

Pure Hearts by Roberto De Paolis

23/05/2017

CANNES 2017: With his first piece, young director Roberto De Paolis observes young people from small working-class suburbs, with the same poetry as Claudio Giovannesi’s films  

Cuori puri

Cuori puri

Montparnasse Bienvenüe by Léonor Serraille

23/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Léonor Serraille unveils a promising feature-length debut with this lively tragicomedy, starring a fabulous Laetitia Dosch  

Jeune femme

Jeune femme

Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont

23/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Bruno Dumont raises a laugh while assaulting our eardrums in this pastoral musical comedy based on a play by Charles Péguy  

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc

The Intruder by Leonardo Di Costanzo

23/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Cohesion, rigour and balance are the three pillars of Leonardo Di Costanzo’s second film, offering further proof of skills honed during his career as a documentary filmmaker  

L'intrusa

L'intrusa

The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos

22/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Yorgos Lanthimos puts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in a perilous situation in a film that is visually very accomplished but severely lacking conceptually  

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

A Violent Life by Thierry de Peretti

22/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Thierry de Peretti straddles the dangerous and opaque border between Corsican nationalism and crime with a realist, crepuscular film  

Une vie violente

Une vie violente

Out by György Kristóf

22/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Slovak filmmaker György Kristóf unveils his first feature; a film of substantial formal quality that straddles the gap between social realism and absurdist parable  

Out

Out

Happy End by Michael Haneke

22/05/2017

CANNES 2017: After winning two Palmes d’Or, the Austrian filmmaker is back, in a somewhat icy setting, to working with the more familiar themes of his films before The White Ribbon  

Happy End

Happy End

Alive in France by Abel Ferrara

22/05/2017

CANNES 2017: The "King of New York" plays music from his Bad Lieutenant and other films in Paris and Toulouse, in an intoxicating slice of musical autobiography  

Alive in France

Alive in France

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