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Festival reviews – Page 9
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Reviews‘Concessions’ review: Michael Madsen stars in thinly sketched elegy for the moviegoing experience
Mas Bouzidi sets his feature debut in an independent US movie theatre on the verge of closure
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Reviews‘The Dead Of Winter’ review: Emma Thompson saves the day in this formulaic thriller
Locarno premiere finds the beloved star playing a grieving widow who must rescue a kidnapped young woman
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Reviews‘The Legend Of The Happy Worker’ review: Thomas Haden Church and Josh Whitehouse star in uneven Lynchian fable
Adaptation of S.E. Feinberg’s play is directed by Duwayne Dunham, longtime David Lynch editor
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Reviews‘Dracula’ review: Romania’s Radu Jude presents a typically inventive study of the vampire myth
The director follows up Berlin Silver Bear-winning Kontinental ’25 with this provocative portmanteau
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Reviews‘The Birthday Party’ review: Willem Dafoe heads an international cast in entertaining tale of wealthy excess
Miguel Angel Jiminez’s Mediterranean island-set thriller also stars Joe Cole, Vic Carmen Sonne and Christos Stergioglou
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Reviews‘With Hasan In Gaza’ review: Palestinian filmmaker journeys through rediscovered footage in poignant documentary
Kamal Aljafari brings to Locarno a raw portrait of everyday life in Gaza, 2001, that chimes with current events
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Reviews‘In The Land Of Arto’ review: Camille Cottin and Zar Amir star in thoughtful Armenian drama
Tamara Stepanyan’s feature debut opens Locarno
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Reviews‘The Book Of Sijjin And Illiyyin’ review: Indonesian chiller filters possession narrative through Muslim mythology
Hadrah Daeng Ratu’s culturally specific shocker is her fourth collaboration with writer Lele Laila
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Reviews‘Mother Of Flies’ review: Fantasia’s Cheval Noir winner is a visceral, thoughtful folk horror
The latest from cult filmmakers the Adams Family is heading to Shudder
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Reviews‘The Woman’ review: South Korean filmmaker Hwang Wook delivers ponderous psychological thriller
Follow up to director’s Fantasia 2024 prizewinner ’Mash Ville’ is overstuffed murder mystery
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Reviews‘Hellcat’ review: Claustrophobic US horror sees woman trapped in Airstream trailer
Editor-turned-director Brock Bodell’s debut features a compelling performance from Dakota Gorman
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Reviews‘I Live Here Now’ review: Julie Pacino’s vividly realised debut plays out in remote California motel
The director’s highly sylised feature blends elements of Argento, Lynch and ‘Alice In Wonderland’
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Reviews‘Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy’ review: Ahn Hyo-seop heads adaptation of South Korean web comic sensation
Kim Byung-woo’s uneven creature feature also stars K-pop singers Nana and Jisoo
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Reviews‘The Well’ review: Muted Canadian eco-thriller finds humanity on the brink of collapse
Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Davis makes the move into fiction with this sombre drama
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Reviews‘Terrestrial’ review: A Hollywood success story hides a secret in dark US comedy
Latest from ’Hot Tub Time Machine’ director Steve Pink premieres at Fantasia
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Reviews‘Cielo’ review: A young girl embarks on a quest across Bolivia in this uncertain fable
Alberto Sciamma’s visually inventive feature comes to Fantasia after multiple wins at Fantasporto
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Reviews‘Adult Children’ review: Galway prizewinner is smart, breezy US coming-of-age drama
Film Fleadh’s best international independent feature is reminiscent of the work of Lynn Shelton
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Reviews‘Fuck The Polis’ review: FIDMarseille winner is a personal, lyrical portrait of modern Greece
Rita Azevedo Gomes’s documentary won the festival’s international competition grand prix
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Reviews’Better Go Mad In The Wild’: Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner follows Czech twins living off-grid
Miro Remo’s documentary pays tribute to idosyncratic brothers Frantisek and Ondrej Klisik
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Reviews‘Horseshoe’ review: Four estranged siblings confront their dead father in crowdpleasing Irish debut
Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe’s well-balanced debut premieres in Galway