Festival reviews – Page 205
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Reviews'The Shape Of Water': Venice Review
Guillermo del Toro crafts a poignant creature fable starring Sally Hawkins
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Reviews'Under The Tree': Venice Review
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson’s third feature is a perceptive exploration of spiralling domestic tensions
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Reviews'First Reformed': Venice Review
Ethan Hawke shines as a tormented man of God in Paul Schrader’s latest
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Reviews'Nico 1988': Venice Review
Trine Dyrholm takes to the stage as the 60s icon as she searches for meaning in music later on in her life.
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Reviews'Tragedy Girls': FrightFest Review
Two teen girls strive for serial killer superstardom in this glossy chiller
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Reviews'The Terror Of Hallow's Eve': FrightFest Review
Practical effects shine in this tale of a bullied kid taking supernatural revenge against his tormentors
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Reviews'3/4': Review
A father and his two children struggle to connect in Ilian Metev’s naturalistic drama
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Reviews'Still/Born': FrightFest Review
A new mother is terrorised by a demon that may be all in her mind in this effective postpartum horror
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Reviews'Leatherface': FrightFest Review
The chainsaw wielder from Texas gets a surprisingly effective origin story.
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Reviews'Our Evil': FrightFest Review
Brazilian filmmaker Samuel Galli explores possession and black magic in his assured debut.
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Reviews'Radius': FrightFest Review
An amnesiac man finds anyone who comes near him drops dead in this intelligent Canadian sci-fi.
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Reviews'Freehold': FrightFest Review
Source: Clout Communications Dir Dominic Bridges. UK. 2017. 79 mins. A claustrophobic black comedy which initially seems surreal but becomes disturbingly more credible as its bizarre situation is explored, director Dominic Bridges’ debut feature demonstrates that there are few horrors an audience will not tolerate – indeed, ...
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Reviews'Death Note': FrightFest Review
Adam Wingard helms a solid American adaptation of the hit Japanese manga property.
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Reviews'Cult Of Chucky': FrightFest Review
Chucky returns to wreak more havoc in this latest addition to the killer doll franchise.
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Reviews'Guidance Through The Black Hole': Sarajevo Review
Poignant portrait of the life of a Bosnian artist living in London and desperate to return home
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Reviews'Birds Like Us': Sarajevo Review
This avian animation proves to be a baffling assault on the senses with little in the way of coherent story
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Reviews'Taste Of Cement': Sarajevo Review
Ziad Kalthoum’s elegant documentary explores the plight of Syrian migrant workers in Beirut
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Reviews'Scary Mother': Sarajevo Review
A middle-aged woman is torn between her family and her writing ambitions in Ana Urushadze’s bold debut
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Reviews'Godspeed': Sarajevo Review
A mobster and a cabbie strike up an unlikely companionship in this offbeat Taiwanese road movie