Latest festival reviews – Page 145
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Reviews‘Young Hunter’: Rotterdam Review
A 15-year-old boy explores his homosexuality with a fellow skater in Marco Berger’s sensitive drama
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Reviews‘Bad Hair’: Sundance Review
Justin Simien follows up Dear White People with this satirical thriller about bloodthirsty hair
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Reviews‘Miss Americana’: Sundance Review
Lana Wilson’s portrait of pop megastar Taylor Swift doesn’t give the full picture
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Reviews‘Cuties’: Sundance Review
An 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in Paris finds camaraderie in a teenage dance troupe
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Reviews‘Crip Camp’: Sundance Review
Inspirational, moving documentary about a revolutionary 1970s summer camp for children with disabilities
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Reviews‘Summertime’: Sundance Review
The follow-up to ‘Blindspotting’ is an absorbing spoken-word sonnet
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Reviews‘VHYes’: Rotterdam Review
An engaging absurdist VHS collage which also features the director’s parents, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
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Reviews‘Mosquito’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s opening film is a fever dream account of a young Portuguese soldier’s experiences in 1917 Mozambique
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Reviews‘Herself’: Review
An Irish single mother determines to build a house for herself after she escapes an abusive marriage
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Reviews‘Funny Face’: Review
Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead in this Brooklyn-set outsider romance from director Tim Sutton
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Reviews‘The Painter And The Thief’: Review
A burglar ends up stealing his victim’s heart in this unusual documentary from Norway
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Reviews‘Identifying Features’: Review
A mother searches for her missing son in Mexico’s borderland in a powerful first feature from Fernanda Valadez
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Reviews‘La Fortaleza’: Review
A nervy, feverish follow-up to ‘La Soledad’ from Venezuela’s promising young director Jorge Thielen Armand
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Reviews‘Relic’: Review
An elderly woman succumbs to dementia - or demons - in Natalie Erika James’ accomplished genre debut
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Reviews‘Wisdom Tooth’: Macao Review
An undocumented Chinese woman struggles to accept her beloved brother’s new girlfriend
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Reviews‘The Long Walk’: Macao Review
An elderly man is transported back to his childhood by a ghost in Mattie Do’s third feature
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Reviews‘Over The Sea’: Macao Review
After being abandoned by his parents years before, a young Chinese boy attempts to make a life in his uncle’s roadside motel
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Reviews‘Homecoming’: Macao Review
An Indonesian couple are forced to confront the cracks in their marriage after a fatal car accident
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Reviews‘Lucky Grandma’: Review
A headstrong elderly Chinese woman gets unwittingly involved with a violent New York gang