Edinburgh Reviews
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Reviews‘Pretty Babies’ review: Hollywood dreams turn into a nightmare in gritty, uneasy US debut
Tyler-Marie Evans’ Edinburgh competition premiere follows starry-eyed two high-schoolers attempting to make it to LA
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Reviews‘Skintown’ review: Sparky, engaging friendship drama is set against the backdrop of Troubles-era Northern Ireland
Jack Rowan and Chris Walley head the impressive cast of Kieron J Walsh’s Edinburgh competition premiere
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Reviews‘First Zone’ review: Striking Dutch survival thriller proves an Edinburgh competition highlight
Thom Lunshof’s dystopian debut plays out in a largely flooded Netherlands
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Reviews‘Sacred Creatures’ review: Canadian siblings have a bizarre trip to Italy in ambitious, erratic magical realist debut
Frieda Luk’s bold drama makes its bow in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘The Mad World Of Harvey Kurtzman’ review: Breezy, insightful portrait of influential MAD magazine founder
Bart Simpson’s Edinburgh competition doc is executive produced by filmmaker and Kurtzman colleague Terry Gilliam
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Reviews‘Snapshot’ review: A killer stalks Victorian London in inventive but stilted period found-footage horror shot through a pinhole lens
Joseph Archer’s feature debut premieres in Edinburgh before heading to FrightFest
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Reviews‘Mission’ review: George MacKay gives a committed performance in propulsive, overwrought mental health drama
MacKay reteams with his ’For Those In Peril’ director Paul Wright for Edinburgh competition title
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Reviews‘Capsized’ review: Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe find themselves in troubled waters in modest, bittersweet US debut
Lindsey Ryan’s Edinburgh competition premiere follows an American family battling financial hardship
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Reviews‘The State Of Us’ review: A boisterous Bradford night out turns sentimental in dewey-eyed UK debut
Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s first feature follows a pair of Northern friends coping with terminal illness
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Reviews‘Out There’ review: Intermittently charming Welsh sci-fi relies on a committed cast including Michael Sheen and Aneurin Barnard
Simon Ryninks’ debut premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Reality Is Not Enough’ review: Entertaining portrait of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh covers familiar ground
Paul Sng’s creative, confessional documentary closes Edinburgh
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Reviews‘In Transit’ review: Jennifer Ehle shines in Jaclyn Bethany’s melancholy chamber piece
Alex Sarrigeorgiou writes and stars in this study of the relationship between a painter and her subject
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Reviews‘Low Rider’ review: LGBTQ+ drama follows a young British woman on a South African roadtrip
Director Campbell X follows-up ’Stud Life’ with this overstuffed feature
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Reviews‘Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago’ review: Bittersweet portrait of a declining Swedish mining town
Documentary follows the few remaining residents of Malmberget in northern Sweden
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Reviews‘Novak’ review: Zlatko Buric’s convincing mad scientist elevates this offbeat Greek debut
Harry Lagoussis’s ambitious feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Blue Film’ review: UK rising star Kieron Moore impresses in provocative, uneven US debut
Elliot Tuttle’s Los Angeles-based camboy drama bows in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘On The Sea’ review: Helen Walsh follows ‘The Violators’ with sensitive Welsh LGBTQ+ drama
The novelist/filmmaker’s second feature stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen
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Reviews‘Mortician’ review: Sensitive, slow-burn drama follows two Iranian exiles in Canada
Abdolreza Kahani’s latest stars Nima Sadr and singer Golazin Ardestani
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Reviews‘Best Boy’ review: A bizarre family contest unveils dark secrets in Canadian woodland thriller
Jesse Noah Klein’s genre-bending feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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