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.

Peacock by Bernhard Wenger

31/08/2024

VENICE 2024: In his feature debut, Austrian director Bernhard Wenger satirises the societal construct of a personality, making full use of the understated acting by Albrecht Schuch  

Pfau

Pfau

Riefenstahl by Andres Veiel

31/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Andres Veiel creates a complex breakdown of German director Leni Riefenstahl’s life and examines how effective people are at trying to rewrite history  

Riefenstahl

Riefenstahl

One to One: John & Yoko by Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards

31/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ frantic, fun doc is so good that it makes you forget all about Gal Gadot’s take on “Imagine”  

One to One: John & Yoko

One to One: John & Yoko

Three Friends by Emmanuel Mouret

30/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Emmanuel Mouret spins a sophisticated and brilliantly directed web of feelings and flirtations in pure paradoxical Rohmer-esque style  

Trois amies

Trois amies

Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 by Göran Hugo Olsson

30/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Göran Hugo Olsson’s doc is essentially a 200-minute showreel digging into the causes and effects of the political, military and societal crises involving the two countries  

Israel Palestina i svensk tv 1958-1989

Israel Palestina i svensk tv 1958-1989

Quiet Life by Alexandros Avranas

30/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Alexandros Avranas’s latest effort tackles a highly sensitive topic – child resignation syndrome – but does so through overly slow pacing and flat acting  

Quiet Life

Quiet Life

Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega

30/08/2024

VENICE 2024: After an intriguing set-up introducing its quirky lead character, Luis Ortega’s film loses its way owing to confusing writing and clunky character development  

El Jockey

El Jockey

Maria by Pablo Larraín

29/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Pablo Larraín concludes his “lonely ladies in empty apartments” trilogy, but this particular aria feels overlong  

Maria

Maria

Planet B by Aude Léa Rapin

29/08/2024

VENICE 2024: Aude Léa Rapin ventures into the genre of the societal sci-fi thriller, plunging into a world that is particularly worrying for civil liberties  

Planète B

Planète B

Super Happy Forever by Kohei Igarashi

29/08/2024

VENICE 2024: The French-Japanese film by Kohei Igarashi delicately tells the story of a sudden bereavement and traces the birth of a tender love by the sea  

Super Happy Forever

Super Happy Forever

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