Festival reviews – Page 58
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Reviews‘Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker’: Berlin Review
The first of two films on tennis legend Boris Backer’s drama-filled life by Alex Gibney
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Reviews‘The Teachers’ Lounge’: Berlin Review
Leonie Benesch impresses as a teacher struggling to keep control in this school-set German drama
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Reviews‘Kill Boksoon’: Berlin Review
A top female assassin finds herself becoming the target in Byun Sung-hyun’s slick Netflix thriller
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Reviews‘Manodrome’: Berlin Review
Jesse Eisenberg is on a downward spiral in John Trengove’s unflinching portrait of toxic masculinity
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Reviews‘Opponent’: Berlin Review
An Iranian refugee in Sweden struggles to hide his true identity in Milad Alami’s attention-grabbing second feature
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Reviews‘Mutt’: Berlin Review
A day in the life of a New York trans man is both fraught and funny in Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s debut
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Reviews‘The Adults’: Berlin Review
Michael Cera is one of three dysfunctional siblings in Dustin Guy Defa’s comedy drama
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Reviews’The Shadowless Tower’: Berlin Review
A divorced man strikes up a relationship with a younger woman in Zhang Lu’s Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘Superpower’: Berlin Review
’Frenetically-paced, awkwardly narcissistic’: Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman present their account of the war in Ukraine
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Reviews‘BlackBerry’: Berlin Review
Matt Johnson takes us on a high-energy ride through the rise and spectacular fall of the first smartphone
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Reviews‘Perpetrator’: Berlin Review
Jennifer Reeder’s anarchic genre-blender stars Alicia Silverstone and emerging star Kiah McKirnan
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Reviews‘Matria’: Berlin Review
Maria Vazquez plays a single mother in Galicia whose life is constantly on the edge of falling apart
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Reviews‘When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before’: Berlin Review
Sonja Heiss’ third feature explores three decades in the life of Joachim Meyerhoff and his psychiatrist father
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Reviews‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’: Berlin Review
A young woman embarks on a taboo relationship just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Emily Atef’s elegant, erotic drama
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Reviews‘The Beast In The Jungle’: Berlin Review
Anaïs Demoustier sparkles in this most recent adaptation of Henry James’s celebrated novella
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Reviews‘El Eco’: Berlin Review
Tatiana Huezo’s documentary set in a remote Mexican mountain community is an intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life
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Reviews‘The Siren’: Berlin Review
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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Reviews‘She Came To Me’: Berlin Review
Rebecca Miller’s wry, knotty drama about a composer and his new muse opens the Berlinale
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Reviews’Endless Borders’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner takes place on Iran’s remote and troubled border with Afghanistan
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Reviews‘The Spectre Of Boko Haram’: Rotterdam Review
Sensitive Tiger-winning documentary looks at the impact of terror group Boko Haram on the lives of young people