Festival reviews – Page 37
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Reviews‘Air’: Tokyo Review
Alexey German Jr focuses on female Russian pilots in this surprsingly conventional Second World War drama
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Reviews‘Lumberjack The Monster’: Tokyo Review
A psychopathic lawyer faces off against a masked serial killer in Takashi Miike’s blood-soaked latest
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Reviews‘Shadow Of Fire’: Tokyo Review
In the devastating aftermath of the Second World War, survivors face a hard-scrabble existence
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Reviews‘A Long Shot’: Tokyo Review
Debut about an armed heist at a Chinese factory in the mid-1990s is inspired by true events
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Reviews‘Gondola’: Tokyo Review
Two cable car attendants in Western Georgia make a connection in this dialogue-free romance
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Reviews‘Fly Me To The Moon’: Tokyo Review
Strong, buzzy debut from Sasha Chuk follows a family over two decades as they move from China to Hong Kong
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Reviews‘Blind At Heart’: Tokyo Review
An independent woman struggles to make her mark in 1930s Berlin in the latest from Barbara Albert
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Reviews‘There’s Still Tomorrow’: Rome Review
Actress-turned director Paola Cortellesi’s black-and-white post-war Italian drama opens Rome
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Reviews‘Stopmotion’: London Review
A stop-motion animator is driven mad by her own creations in this atmospheric British horror
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Reviews‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: London Review
Lina Soualem, daughter of Hiam Abbass, explores her family history in this personal documentary which won London’s Grierson award
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Reviews‘The Kitchen’: London Review
Co-directors Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares close London film Festival with this near-future-set call to arms
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Reviews‘Black Dog’: London Review
Two very different young men find a kinship on a roadtrip in this British debut
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Reviews‘Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget’: London Review
Aardman’s long-awaited sequel to its most successful feature ever looks set to become a family favourite
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Reviews‘The Movie Emperor’: Busan
Director Ning Hao and star Andy Lau re-team for this savvy film industry satire
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Reviews‘Bride Kidnapping’: Busan Review
Jiseok co-winner at Busan is a dour but powerful drama from Kyrgyzstan.
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Reviews‘Paradise’: Busan Review
Effective Sri Lanka-set tourism drama shared the top prize in Busan’s Jiseok competition
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Reviews‘All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt’: London Review
Raven Jackson’s feature debut is a patchwork of Tennessee memories produced by Barry Jenkins
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Reviews‘Starve Acre’: London Review
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo’s 70s-set folk horror
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Reviews‘Tuesday’: London Review
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in this ambitious feature debut from the UK, backed by A24