Festival reviews – Page 84
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Reviews‘The Invitation’: Thessaloniki Review
Fabrizio Maltese accepts an invitation from Abderrahmane Sissako to continue the late Pol Cruchten’s unfinished film in Mauritania
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Reviews‘The Gigantes’: Malaga Review
Beatriz Sanchis’ second feature follows two female runaways escaping their troubles in LA for the Mexican border
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Reviews‘Code Emperor’: Malaga Review
Malaga opens with Jorge Coira’s high-speed thriller starring Luis Tosar
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Reviews‘Lullaby’: Malaga Review
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut is an absorbing mother-daughter drama set on the Basque coast
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Reviews‘We Feed People’: SXSW Review
Ron Howard’s accessible doc on celebrity chef Jose Andres focuses on the work of his non-profit World Central Kitchen
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Reviews‘Jimmy In Saigon’: Flare Review
Searching for the truth about his brother’s mysterious death, Peter McDowell creates a compassionate picture of a hidden gay life
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Reviews‘The Other Half’: Thessaloniki Review
Photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis makes his film debut with an empathetic picture of refugees and migrants crossing European borders
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Reviews‘Arm Wrestler’: Thessaloniki Review
Yorgos Goussis expands his 2020 award-winning short into a poetic feature-length character study of his brother Panos
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Reviews‘Master Of Light’: SXSW Review
SXSW’s documentary Grand Jury award winner is a rich, complex portrait of the painter and activist George Anthony Morton
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Reviews‘Long Live My Happy Head’: Thessaloniki Review
A moving portrait of graphic novelist Gordon Shaw drawing his journey through cerebral cancer when the global pandemic hits
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Reviews‘I Love My Dad’: SXSW Review
SXSW-winner takes cringe comedy to the next level when a hapless father catfishes his own son
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Reviews‘This Is Not Me’: Flare Review
A moving portrait of two young trans men embarking upon the difficult legal process of gender transition in Iran
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Reviews‘Off the Rails’: Thessaloniki Review
Peter Day expands his BBC documentary short into a feature length focus on the British urban parkour collective Brewman
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Reviews‘X’: SXSW Review
Ti West’s long-awaited return to horror is a bloody and brainy 1970s-style slasher with bite
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Reviews‘It Is In Us All’: SXSW Review
Cosmo Jarvis explores the complexity of masculinity in Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ Irish dramatic feature debut
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Reviews‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’: SXSW Review
Richard Linklater takes a fond trip down memory lane with his animated look back at the Apollo 11 moon landing
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Reviews‘The Cow’: SXSW Review
Winona Ryder shines in this playful genre debut about a weekend getaway at a cabin in the woods
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Reviews‘Millie Lies Low’: SXSW Review
Ana Scotney is a standout talent in Michelle Savill’s comedic debut from New Zealand
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Reviews‘To Leslie’: SXSW Review
Andrea Riseborough is superb as an alcoholic single mother from West Texas in Michael Morris’s earnest feature debut
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Reviews‘Wake Up Punk’: Glasgow Review
The spirit of punk lives on in Nigel Askew’s documentary featuring Joe Corré and the Westwood-McLaren clan