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.

Ava by Léa Mysius

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Young French director Léa Mysius shows great potential with her atmospheric and original debut feature, which flirts with several genres  

Ava

Ava

Before Summer Ends by Maryam Goormaghtigh

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Maryam Goormaghtigh’s first feature film takes us through the sunny streets of southern France, between laughter and tears, sadness and hope  

Avant la fin de l'été

Avant la fin de l'été

Western by Valeska Grisebach

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Valeska Grisebach subtly revisits the codes of the western by transposing them to the modern day in deepest Bulgaria, with a story about German construction workers  

Western

Western

Lover for a Day by Philippe Garrel

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Philippe Garrel delivers a marvellously stripped-back film about the eternally fluctuating territories and underground manoeuvres of love  

L'amant d'un jour

L'amant d'un jour

Let the Sun Shine In by Claire Denis

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Claire Denis’ new film is truly delicious, of a "theoretical" and emotional intelligence that is as tasty as it is universally moving  

Un beau soleil intérieur

Un beau soleil intérieur

Barbara by Mathieu Amalric

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: The film, screened at Cannes to open the Un Certain Regard section, reaffirms Mathieu Amalric’s directorial talent for palimpsest narration  

Barbara

Barbara

Jupiter's Moon by Kornél Mundruczó

19/05/2017

CANNES 2017: This thrill ride of a film by Kornél Mundruczó blends Christlike fantasy with the topics of migrants and a society on the brink of becoming a police state  

Felesleges ember

Felesleges ember

Sicilian Ghost Story by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia

18/05/2017

CANNES 2017: The latest film by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza which opened Critics’ Week, broaches one of the many atrocious crimes of the Sicilian mafia from an original visual angle  

Sicilian Ghost Story

Sicilian Ghost Story

Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev

18/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Andrey Zvyagintsev has made a brilliant, unforgiving and brutally dark film centring on a child caught in the prevailing headlights of hatred  

Nelyubov

Nelyubov

Ismael's Ghosts by Arnaud Desplechin

17/05/2017

CANNES 2017: Arnaud Desplechin brilliantly toys with interlacing narratives to create a dizzying and fabulous tale worthy of abstract expressionism  

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël

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