Film Reviews

8758 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 17/10/2026. 649 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Equilibrium by Vincenzo Marra

07/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Vincenzo Marra presents his fourth fiction film, which documents the daily struggle of a priest in a difficult region of Italy, the Neapolitan Terra dei fuochi or “Land of Fire”  

L'equilibrio

L'equilibrio

Love and Bullets by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti

07/09/2017

VENICE 2017: The Manetti Bros return to Naples with a thriller-musical-love story that brings traditional melodrama into the modern day  

Ammore e malavita

Ammore e malavita

Loving Pablo by Fernando León de Aranoa

07/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Fernando León de Aranoa gives us a questionable cinematic take on the life of Pablo Escobar, screening out of competition on the Lido, and starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem  

Loving Pablo

Loving Pablo

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh

06/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Martin McDonagh brings his acerbic wit to a competition berth at Venice, with a film that could easily be a cousin of the Coen brothers’ Fargo  

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

M by Sara Forestier

06/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Actress Sara Forestier presents her directorial debut, competing in the Giornate degli Autori section. A tale of visceral love that must overcome some communicative challenges  

M

M

Cinderella the Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone

06/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Alessandro Rak returns after the success of The Art of Happiness with a retro sci-fi animated film inspired by Giambattista Basile's 1636 story  

Gatta Cenerentola

Gatta Cenerentola

The Night I Swam by Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi

05/09/2017

VENICE 2017: A daring work, both simple and fascinating, emanating a heady charm, bearing the hallmark of France’s Damien Manivel and Japan’s Kohei Igarashi  

Takara - La Nuit où j’ai nagé

Takara - La Nuit où j’ai nagé

The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico

05/09/2017

VENICE 2017: French director Bertrand Mandico delivers his debut feature, an experimental journey to the limits of imposed gender roles, set in an undisclosed realm of wonders  

Les Garçons sauvages

Les Garçons sauvages

Where Shadows Fall by Valentina Pedicini

05/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Valentina Pedicini's debut fiction feature, shocking but well grounded, is based on the true story of a eugenics programme conducted on nomadic children in Switzerland  

Dove cadono le ombre

Dove cadono le ombre

Una famiglia by Sebastiano Riso

05/09/2017

VENICE 2017: Sebastiano Riso's second film, in competition for the Golden Lion, tackles the dramatic theme of the black market for newborn babies  

Una famiglia

Una famiglia

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