Festival reviews – Page 26
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Reviews‘The Falling Star’: Locarno Review
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s typically-quirky comedy plays out in a Belgian beer bar
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Reviews’Abang Adik’: NYAFF Review
New York Asian Film Festival top prize-winner is a tour de force from Malaysia’s Jin Ong
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Reviews‘The Hypnosis’: Karlovy Vary Review
A professional woman undergoes hypnotherapy to surprising results in this Karlovy Vary prizewinner
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Reviews‘Double Blind’: Galway Review
Savvy Irish suspense/body horror leaves room open for a – not unwelcome – sequel
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Reviews‘Late Night With The Devil’: Fantasia Review
David Dastmalchian’s TV host unwittingly unleashes hell in this Seventies-set found footage chiller
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Reviews‘What You Wish For’: Fantasia Review
Nick Stahl is a chef who finds himself in hot water in Nicholas Tomnay’s slick, if flavourless, thriller
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Reviews‘Empire V’: Fantasia Review
Banned in Russia, this fantasy feature sees the country ruled over by an elite, secret conclave of vampires
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Reviews‘Aporia’: Fantasia Review
A grieving woman is given the opportunity to rewrite history in this time bending drama
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Reviews‘Hippo’: Fantasia Review
Mark H. Rapaport’s feature debut is a black-and-white checklist of transgressions set in 1990s America
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Reviews‘Sympathy For The Devil’: Fantasia Review
Nicolas Cage deploys his trademark crazy as an armed stranger who takes an ordinary man for a terrifying ride
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Reviews‘Stay Online’: Fantasia Review
This ’screenlife’ thriller was shot in Ukraine against the backdrop of the current Russian invasion
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Reviews‘Mami Wata’: Fantasia Review
A West African village finds itself at a spiritual crossroads in CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi’s striking third feature
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Reviews‘A Greyhound Of A Girl’: Galway Review
A young girl confronts mortality in this colourful animated adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s novel
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Reviews‘Lies We Tell’: Galway Review
Star Agnes O’Casey brings a modern edge to this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Uncle Silas’
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Reviews‘Apocalypse Clown’: Galway Review
George Kane’s anarchic comedy follows a troupe of clowns travelling across Ireland in the aftermath of a electrical blackout
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Reviews‘In The Shadow Of Beirut’: Galway Review
Backed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, this Lebanon-set documentary presents a troubling portrait of life in Sabra and Shatila
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Reviews‘The Martini Shot’: Galway Review
Matthew Modine plays a terminally-ill director attemping to make his last film in Ireland
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Reviews‘Blaga’s Lessons’: Karlovy Vary Review
Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is a tense thriller about an elderly Bulgarian woman who falls for a telephone scam
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Reviews‘The Miracle Club’: Galway Review
Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney head this long-gestating drama set in 1960s Ireland
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Reviews‘Background’: FIDMarseille Review
FIDMarseille’s International Competition winner follows a son’s attempt to learn more about his father’s past