Film Reviews

7871 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 03/07/2025. 758 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

The Flame of a Candle by André Gil Mata

05/07/2024

The talented and impenetrable Portuguese filmmaker André Gil Mata journeys through time to explore the space of a home and two women’s lives  

Sob a chama da candeia

Sob a chama da candeia

Banzo by Margarida Cardoso

05/07/2024

In Margarida Cardoso’s feature, a mysterious illness is befalling the workers on a remote African island  

Banzo

Banzo

Tatabojs.doc by Marek Najbrt

05/07/2024

Marek Najbrt’s documentary is a respectable ode to one of the highest-profile Czech music acts, but the film’s reach is limited owing to the specific cultural context  

Tatabojs.doc

Tatabojs.doc

Chlorophyll by Ivana Gloria

05/07/2024

A young woman must find her place and her identity in this fairy tale-like story by Ivana Gloria  

Clorofilla

Clorofilla

The Gardener's Year by Jiří Havelka

05/07/2024

Jiří Havelka’s third film probes the conflict between tradition and modernity, but ultimately falls short as a satire, emerging as more of a thinly plotted and repetitive tragicomedy  

Zahradníkův rok

Zahradníkův rok

Nothing in Its Place by Burak Çevik

05/07/2024

Turkish director Burak Çevik’s fifth feature, set in 1978, presents a struggle between ideological factions in his country as universal, but fails to fully engage the viewer  

Hicbir Sey Yerinde Degil

Hicbir Sey Yerinde Degil

Trans Memoria by Victoria Verseau

04/07/2024

Conceptual artist Victoria Verseau does not hold back in her feature debut, documenting a return to memories, grief and the process of transition all at once  

Trans Memoria

Trans Memoria

Tiny Lights by Beata Parkanová

04/07/2024

Through the eyes of her child heroine, Beata Parkanová shows a whole history of perpetuated family trauma and allows us to imagine the little girl’s future  

Světýlka

Světýlka

Stranger by Zhengfan Yang

04/07/2024

In his sophomore work of fiction, Yang Zhengfan beckons us into hotel rooms for seven vignettes, but unfortunately the film slightly outstays its welcome  

Ju wai ren

Ju wai ren

Celebration by Bruno Anković

03/07/2024

Having endured only hardships in his life, a good man crosses a moral boundary to become a member of a fascist militia in Bruno Anković’s mesmerising debut feature  

Celebration

Celebration

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