Festival reviews – Page 6
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Reviews‘Hell’s Army’ review: Slick doc follows Russian journalists on case of alarming new world order
Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley follows Katya Hakim as she tracks Russia’s Wagner mercenary force
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Reviews‘DreamQuil’ review: Elizabeth Banks shoulders dual role in detached retro-futuristic drama
The feature debut from visual artist Alex Prager also stars John C Reilly, Kathryn Newton and Juliette Lewis
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Reviews‘Whispers In May’ review: Lyrical, warm Chinese debut is poignant blend of documentary and fiction
Dongnan Chen’s CPH:DOX competition title follows three teenage girls on a momentous journey
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Reviews‘Forbidden Fruits’ review: Horror comedy about Texas teen witches casts a campy, playful spell
Diablo Cody produces Meredith Alloway’s SXSW premiere
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Reviews‘Amazomania’ review: Agile doc reframes 1996 expedition to isolated Korubo community
Swedish filmmaker Nathan Grossman’s CPH:DOX title was made in collaboration with the Korubo people
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Reviews‘Hokum’ review: Adam Scott embarks on a nightmarish trip in chilling horror from Ireland’s Damian McCarthy
The filmmaker’s follow-up to ’Oddity’ premieres at SXSW before May theatrical opening
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Reviews‘Closure’ review: Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival winner is sombre, humanistic study of loss
Michal Marczak’s documentary follows a Polish father as he searches for his missing son
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Reviews‘The Fox’ review: Olivia Colman lends her voice to underpowered offbeat Australian satire
Dario Russo’s debut feature also stars Jai Courtney, Emily Browning and Sam Neill.
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Reviews‘I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore’ review: Offbeat, idiosyncratic Taipei-set debut defies easy categorisation
The improvised first feature from Ka Ki Wong bows in CPH:DOX Next Wave
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Reviews‘The Way Elsewhere’ review: Meditative, abstract hybrid doc follows a trio of Athens taxi drivers
Photojournalist turned filmmaker Eirini Vourloumis’s debut documentary premieres at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ review: Vince Vaughn and James Marsden head riotous time travel comedy
BenDavid Grabinski’s SXSW premiere also stars Eliza González and Keith David
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Reviews‘The Cord’ review: Gritty, urgent doc follows one-woman crusade to fix Venezuela’s maternity system
French filmmaker Nolwenn Hervé’s feature follows Carolina as she fights to support the mothers of Maracaibo
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Reviews‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ review: Samara Weaving returns in bloody, bland horror sequel
SXSW premiere also stars David Cronenberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood
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Reviews‘We Are Stardust’ review: Absorbing doc follows Norwegian citizen scientist on hunt for cosmic dust
Filmmaker Elisabeth Rasmussen joins musician Jon Larsen on his 10 year search for valuable micrometeorites
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Reviews‘I Love Boosters’ review: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige anchor Boots Riley’s anarchic SXSW opener
LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore and Don Cheadle also star in riotous pro-union comedy
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Reviews‘Just Look Up’ review: US climate activism doc shows passion, but covers familiar ground
Joshua Oppenheimer and Adam McKay executive produce lightweight portrait of protest group Climate Defiance
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Reviews‘Mariinka’ review: CPH:Dox opener is arresting but tonally uneven account of life in east Ukraine
Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue filmed his observational documentary over 10 years
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Reviews‘Replica’ review: Fascinating if limited study of Chinese women embarking on AI relationships
Chouwa Liang’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival premiere is a follow-up to her 2022 short ‘My AI Lover’
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Reviews‘Derek Vs Derek’ review: A British farming feud roots gentle environmental documentary
James Dawson’s appealing, insightful film bows in Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
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Reviews‘Sinsin And The Mouse’ review: Verbose, meandering two-hander sees strangers connect in Taipei
Yukinori Makabe’s Glasgow Film Festival premiere is adapted from a short story by Banana Yoshimoto