Latest reviews – Page 65
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Reviews'Bones of Contention': Berlin Review
Documentary examines the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the mass graves which remain dotted across the country to this day
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Reviews'Weirdos': Berlin Review
A black and white 1970s-set road movie spanning Nova Scotia is far more effective than it might initially appear
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Reviews'From The Balcony': Berlin Review
A small cinematic memoir from a little-known Norwegian director delivers moments of charm and insight
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Reviews‘Summer 1993’: Berlin Review
Winner of the debut prize at the Berlinale, Catalan director Carla Simón’s story about an orphaned six year-old girl is authentic and memorable
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Reviews'Logan': Berlin Review
Hugh Jackman saddles up one last time for James Mangold’s Western-infused Wolverine epic Logan
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Reviews'A Prominent Patient': Berlin Review
Stately, handsomely mounted biopic of Czech wartime statesman Jan Masaryk, played by Karel Roden
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Reviews'Ana, Mon Amour': Berlin Review
Călin Peter Netzer dissects the anatomy of a relationship in his expertly constructed emotional drama
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Reviews'Have A Nice Day': Berlin Review
Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world
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Reviews'In Times Of Fading Light': Berlin Review
Bruno Ganz plays the Communist patriarch of an East German family as the world starts to crumble around him
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Reviews'Joaquim': Berlin Review
Julio Machado plays a revolutionary martyr in colonial, gold-rush Brazil in Marcelo Gomes’ sweaty, dusty film
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Reviews'On The Beach At Night Alone': Berlin Review
Life mirrors art in Hong Sangsoo’s latest meditation, about a director who has an affair with an actress
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Reviews'The Bar': Berlin Review
Alex de la Iglesia returns with an unflattering genre piece set inside a Madrid bar
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Reviews'Loving Pia': Berlin Review
Dir. Daniel Borgman. Denmark, 2017, 100 minutesLoving Pia is an easy film to like, if you are willing to adjust your attention span. Daniel Borgman’s slow no-budget hybrid plays like a documentary as it explores the subtle rhythms of attachment and the fear of loss. Borgman’s ...
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Reviews'Return To Montauk': Berlin Review
Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss headline Volker Schlondorff’s rumination on long lost love, co-written by Colm Tóibín
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Reviews'Almost Heaven': Berlin Review
Documentary set in one of China’s largest mortuaries where teenager Ying Ling learns her trade
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Reviews'Colo': Berlin Review
The Portugese financial crisis comes home to roost in Teresa Villaverde’s mannered but original film
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Reviews'Freak Show': Berlin Review
Trudie Styler’s debut is a frock-out-of-water High School yarn starring Alex Lawther as a flamboyant teen
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Reviews'Last Days In Havana': Berlin Review
Dir: Fernando Perez. Cuba, Spain 2017.93 minsThere is a fond, wistful tone to Last Days In Havana (Últimos días en la Habana) that encourages you to indulge its inconsistencies in plotting and style. The old-fashioned tale of a dying gay man and his surrogate family of ...
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Reviews'The Midwife': Berlin Review
France’s two Catherines - Deneuve and Frot - are united in an entertaining and bespoke script from Martin Provost
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Reviews'Beuys': Berlin Review
Three years in the making, Andres Veiel’s documentary about German artist Joseph Beuys takes its stylistic cues from its restlessly creative subject