Festival reviews – Page 199
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Reviews'Roller Dreams': London Review
Kate Hickey looks at the gentrification of Venice Beach in this affecting documentary
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Reviews'Funny Cow': London Review
Maxine Peake is defiantly good as a Northern comic working the sexist circuit of the 1970s and 80s
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Reviews'6 Days': London Review
Toa Fraser directs Jamie Bell as a SAS leader during the 1980 siege of the Iranian Embasssy in London
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Reviews'Montana': Haifa Review
A debut from Israel which is surprisingly light on its feet, given the weighty matters it addresses
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Reviews'Kingdom Of Us': London Review
Lucy Cohen’s doc, headed for Netflix, is an extraordinary and intimate look at one family coping in the face of loss and other challenges
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Reviews'Good Manners': London Review
Brazilian drama is a a compellingly unconventional addition to the lycan movie genre
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Reviews'Cargo': Adelaide Review
Martin Freeman stars in Netflix’s thoughtful, impactful Australian-set zombie thriller
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Reviews'Ghost Stories': London Review
An accomplished cinematic re-working of the hit British supernatural stage play
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Reviews'The Sower': San Sebastian Review
Marine Francen’s feature debut is the winner of the New Directors prize at San Sebastian
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Reviews'Killing Jesus': Zurich Review
Part-based on a real-life story, Laura Mora’s directorial debut is also a snapshot of Medellín today
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Reviews'Lots Of Kids, A Monkey And A Castle': San Sebastian Review
A winsome, big-hearted documentary from Spain which is already a festival favourite
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Reviews'Pororoca': San Sebastian Review
Constantin Popescu’s third feature wins Best Actor for Bogdan Dumitrache at San Sebastian 2017
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Reviews'Only God Can Judge Me (Nur Gott Kann Mich Richten)': Zurich Review
An enthusiastically-lurid crime drama from director Özgür Yildirim, reuniting with actor Moritz Bleibtreu
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Reviews'Weightless': Zurich Review
Alessandro Nirvola stars in the feature debut of commercials director Jaron Albertin
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Reviews'Good Favour': Review
Irish director Rebecca Daly’s third feature is set inside a sealed-off religious commune
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Reviews'Blue My Mind': Zurich Review
A teenage girl undergoes a strange physical transformation in Lisa Bruhlmann’s coming of age story
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Reviews'Shock And Awe': Zurich Review
Rob Reiner directs and co-stars in this film about journalists investigating the decision to invade Iraq
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Reviews'The Disaster Artist': San Sebastian Review
Winner of best film at San Sebastian, ‘The Disaster Artist’ is a genuinely moving bromance about the ’Citizen Kane of bad movies’
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Reviews'Apostasy': San Sebastian Review
An audacious debut from first-time British director Daniel Kokotajlo is set in the Jehovah’s Witness faith of his own childhood