Festival reviews – Page 89
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Reviews‘The Territory’: Sundance Review
A rousing fight for the future of endangered people and land in the Brazilian Amazon
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Reviews‘Please Baby Please’: Rotterdam Review
Amanda Kramer’s genderqueer underworld odyssey opens Rotterdam’s second online edition
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Reviews‘Emily The Criminal’: Sundance Review
Aubrey Plaza shines in John Patton Ford’s debut crime thriller
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Reviews‘Splendid Isolation’: Rotterdam Review
Inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, Urszula Antoniak explores the power of human connection
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Reviews‘Met Mes’: Rotterdam Review
Sam de Jong’s third feature uses a colourful coat of irony to explore peer pressure
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Reviews‘The Plains’: Rotterdam Review
A middle-aged Melbourne lawyer’s daily commute proves a fascinating docu/fiction hybrid
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Reviews‘The Janes’: Sundance Review
Members of Chicago’s The Jane Collective look back on the abortion service they ran in the late 1960s and early 70s
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Reviews‘Piggy’: Sundance Review
Spanish filmmaker expands her short film into a bold, bloody and insightful feature
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Reviews‘Last Flight Home’: Sundance Review
Two-time Sundance winner Ondi Timoner takes an unflinching look at her father’s decision to end his life
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Reviews‘The Mission’: Sundance Review
Intriguing, respectful documentary follows American Mormons on their mission to Finland
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Reviews‘Am I OK?’: Sundance Review
Dakota Johnson is appealing in this gentle 30-something coming-of-age comedy
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Reviews‘Dos Estaciones’: Sundance Review
The machinations of a Mexican tequila factory make for compelling dramatic intrigue
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Reviews‘Midwives’: Sundance Review
Debut filmmaker Snow Hnin El Hlaing throws open the doors of a Myanmar medical centre
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Reviews‘My Old School’: Sundance Review
Back to your desks, with Alan Cumming and Jono McLeod taking a class in deception
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Reviews‘The Exiles’: Sundance Review
Sundance winner reunites veteran documentary filmmaker Christine Choy with the Tiananmen Square protest leaders
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Reviews‘God’s Country’: Sundance Review
Thandiwe Newton is superb in this adaptation of James Lee Burke short story Winter Light
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Reviews‘Alice’: Sundance Review
Slavery past and present blends into Krystin Van Ver Linden’s vengeful thriller
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Reviews‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’: Sundance Review
Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown guide this sharp religious satire
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Reviews‘Sharp Stick’: Sundance Review
Lena Dunham shows she hasn’t mellowed in the frustratingly-uneven ’Sharp Stick’