Latest festival reviews – Page 205
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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
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Reviews'Daybreak': Sarajevo Review
A single mother struggles to survive in contemporary Albania in Gentian Koci’s unflinching feature
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Reviews'Ellipsis': Sydney Review
It may be familiar, but actor David Wenham’s ‘Before Sunrise’-like trip through Sydney still has a warm charm
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Reviews'Even When I Fall': Sheffield Review
The shocking story behind Nepal’s first circus is turned into a thoughtful and wide-ranging documentary
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Reviews'The Departure': Sheffield Review
An affecting documentary about Japan’s Zen Buddhist priest who counsels the suicidal and the toll it takes on his own mental health
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Reviews'Mr. Gay Syria': Sheffield Review
A moving case for visibility in the face of hatred and violence
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Reviews'Queerama': Sheffield Review
Opening Sheffield Doc/Fest, Daisy Asquith looks at a century of gay life in the United Kingdom
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Reviews'Out Of Thin Air': Sheffield Review
A real-life whodunnit from 1974 is the basis of Dylan Howitt’s gripping Iceland-set documentary
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Reviews'Bobbi Jene': Tribeca Review
Elvira Lind’s remarkable documentary follows two years in the life of provocative dancer Bobbi Jene Smith
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Reviews'Frank Serpico': Tribeca Review
Dir/scr: Antonino D’Ambrosio. US. 2017. 96mins In 1971, disillusioned New York City cop Frank Serpico took on the systemic corruption he saw in the force and beyond; an action which then saw him labelled as a hero by some, and a traitor by most. With unprecedented access ...