Festival reviews – Page 59
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Reviews‘La Palisiada’: Rotterdam Review
Darkly comic Ukrainian cop thriller effectively mines the country’s difficult post-Soviet history
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Reviews‘Joram’: Rotterdam Review
Devashish Makhija’s cat-and-mouse thriller is a race across India’s troubled interior
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Reviews‘A House In Jerusalem’: Rotterdam Review
Muayad Alayan ventures into genre with his third feature, a UK/Palestinian co-production set in a rambling old house in West Jerusalem
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Reviews‘Copenhagen Does Not Exist’: Rotterdam Review
A man looks back over an intense relationship in this Danish drama written by Eskil Vogt
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Reviews‘A Little Prayer’: Sundance Review
David Straithairn shines in this North Carolina-set family drama, picked up by Sony at Sundance
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Reviews‘Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’: Sundance Review
This Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner is an unconventional documentary about African American poet Nikki Giovanni
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Reviews‘The Persian Version’: Sundance Review
Layla Mohammadi is a standout in Maryam Keshavarz’s crowdpleasing Iranian-American drama
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Reviews‘A Thousand And One’: Sundance Review
A mother and son struggle to survive in a gentrifying New York City in this Focus Features release
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Reviews‘Radical’: Sundance Review
Eugenio Derbez is as an inspirational teacher working in a deprived part of Mexico in this sincere, conventional drama
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Reviews‘Scrapper’: Sundance Review
Harris Dickinson stars in this Sundance award-winning drama about a grieving 12-year-old who attempts to reconnect with her father
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Reviews‘Beyond Utopia’: Sundance Review
The desperate stories of North Koreans trying to defect - and the South Korean pastor who helps them
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Reviews‘Kokomo City’: Sundance Review
Black transgender sex workers tell their stories to Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter D. Smith
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Reviews‘The Eternal Memory’: Sundance Review
Maite Alberdi follows up ‘The Mole Agent’ with this deeply moving story of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease
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Reviews‘20 Days In Mariupol’: Sundance Review
Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov presents an unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion
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Reviews‘Four Little Adults’: Rotterdam Review
A middle-class couple try a lifestyle of polyamory in this Finnish comedy of manners
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Reviews‘Luka’: Rotterdam Review
Jessica Woodworth’s solo outing is a visually arresting, narratively dense drama inspired by Dino Buzzati’s 1940 novel ’The Tartar Steppe’
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Reviews‘Superposition’: Rotterdam Review
A Danish couple find themselves – literally – while on a rural retreat in Sweden in this confident genre debut
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Reviews‘One Win’: Rotterdam Review
Parasite’s Song Kang-ho coaches a struggling volleyball team in this South Korean underdog comedy
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Reviews‘One Last Evening’: Rotterdam Review
Dinner with friends turns nasty in this German debut set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Reviews‘Munch’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam opens with an expansive biopic of the artist Edvard Munch at four pivotal ages of his life