Festival reviews – Page 55
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Reviews‘Upon Entry’: Malaga Review
‘Very clever film-making’: would-be immigrants are locked in a room by US border guards in this claustrophobic debut from Spain
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Reviews‘Killing Crabs’: Malaga Review
A pre-tourist Tenerife comes back to life in this appealing 1990s period drama
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Reviews‘Sica’: Malaga Review
A young girl searches for her missing father in this impressive debut set on the stormy Galician coast
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Reviews‘The Enchanted’: Malaga Review
Laia Costa shines in this otherwise lacklustre drama set in the Spanish Pyrenees
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Reviews‘Pay Or Die’: SXSW Review
Candid documentary about the exortionate cost of insulin in the US
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Reviews‘Northern Comfort’: SXSW Review
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s English-language comedy about a bunch of stranded aerophobes struggles to land
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Reviews‘Raging Grace’: SXSW Review
An undocumented Filipina woman fights for her future in Paris Zarcilla’s genre-tinged UK-set debut
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Reviews‘Bleeding Love’: SXSW Review
Real-life father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor bring poignancy to this gentle character study
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Reviews‘Flamin’ Hot’: SXSW Review
Eva Longoria’s biopic of the Hispanic worker who spiced up America’s favourite snacks is blander than its subject deserves
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Reviews‘Black Barbie’: SXSW Review
Documentary explores America’s enduring race problem through the eyes of its most famous doll
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Reviews‘I Am Weekender’: Glasgow Review
Documentary looks back at English indie band Flowered Up and their 1992 ’Weekender’ music video
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Reviews‘Another Body’: SXSW Review
Eye-opening doc about the growing threat of online deepfake pornography
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Reviews’Sunlight’: Dublin Review
Barry Ward stars in Claire Dix’s feature debut about assisted dying
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Reviews‘Mighty Afrin: In The Time Of Floods’: Thessaloniki Review
Docu-fiction follows a 12-year-old girl as she attempts to outrun Brahmaputra river floods and find her father in Dhaka
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Reviews‘Consecration’: Glasgow Review
A Scottish convent is rocked by murder in Christopher Smith’s religious horror starring Jena Malone
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Reviews‘Narrow Path To Happiness’: Thessaloniki Review
A gay Hungarian couple attempt to write a musical based on their lives in this charming, hopeful documentary
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Reviews‘Queen Of The Deuce’: Thessaloniki Review
Fascinating, colourful portrait of the Greece-born New York porn matriarch Chelly Wilson
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Reviews‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’: Glasgow Review
A straighforward documentary portrait which covers the rise to fame of boxing icon Muhammad Ali
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Reviews‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentary about the life and legacy of the rock’n’roll icon lacks the dynamism of its transgressive subject
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Reviews‘Who I Am Not’: Thessaloniki Review
This sensitive documentary explores what it means to be intersex in a binary world