Film Reviews

8027 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 06/09/2025. 754 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

At Work by Valérie Donzelli

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Bastien Bouillon excels in Valérie Donzelli’s surprisingly deep dive into the vocation of writing  

À pied d’œuvre

À pied d’œuvre

Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students by Claire Simon

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Claire Simon uses the novelist's writings as a mirror to sketch a portrait that is both simple and subtle of the diversity of contemporary French youth  

Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens

Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens

Father by Tereza Nvotová

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Tereza Nvotová proves that you can, and always should, make a compulsively watchable film about the most harrowing subject  

Otec

Otec

Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos

29/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Yorgos Lanthimos remakes Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! and unleashes a wickedly playful, grotesque and unsettlingly timely tale of paranoia and power  

Bugonia

Bugonia

Gioia by Nicolangelo Gelormini

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Nicolangelo Gelormini’s second feature is a ruthless dark fable that revolves around the improbable bond between an unscrupulous young man and his naive teacher  

La Gioia

La Gioia

Orphan by László Nemes

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: László Nemes’ visually rich yet narratively uneven film tells a story of fractured families and a wounded nation  

Árva

Árva

Stereo Girls by Caroline Deruas Peano

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Caroline Deruas Peano reincarnates the intensity of teenage emotions in a film that takes many formal risks with undeniable charm  

Les Immortelles

Les Immortelles

Director’s Diary by Aleksandr Sokurov

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Aleksandr Sokurov returns with a provocative work recounting the late 20th century in Russia and elsewhere, that’s somewhere between a rolling TV news broadcast and installation art  

Zapisnaja knižka režisëra

Zapisnaja knižka režisëra

La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino

28/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Politics and existentialism are lent exquisite, low-key Italian beauty in Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, starring his regular Toni Servillo  

La grazia

La grazia

Mother by Teona Strugar Mitevska

27/08/2025

VENICE 2025: Teona Strugar Mitevska places us in Mother Teresa’s head for a few days, as she dispels the last remaining doubts stopping her from fulfilling her wildest ambition  

Mother

Mother

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