All Reviews articles
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Reviews‘Power Ballad’ review: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas pluck the heartstrings in overly sentimental John Carney drama
Carney follows up ‘Once’ and ‘Sing Street’ with wistful, unconvincing music industry tale
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Reviews‘Cold War 1994’ review: Third in Hong Kong crime thriller franchise is astute and entertaining
Stars Chow Yun-fat, Daniel Wu and Terrance Lau are joined by Hugh Bonneville and Aidan Gillen for director Longman Leung
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Reviews‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ review: Glossy fashion world sequel is cut from same cloth as 2006 original
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return for glamorous, predictable feature
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Reviews‘The Sheep Detectives’ review: Hugh Jackman leads an all-star cast in offbeat murder mystery
Emma Thompson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston also star in family-friendly feature
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Reviews‘From Dawn To Dawn’ review: Visions du Reel winner is delicate study of Chinese immigrant lives in Barcelona
Xisi Sofia Ye Chen turns the camera on her own family for her documentary debut
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Reviews‘Magilligan’ review: Empathetic Northern Irish doc explores the reality of life after prison
Ross McClean’s observational film should attract attention following its Visions du Reel premiere
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Reviews‘Saudades Eternas’ review: Modest, authentic documentary portrait of a Rio favela matriarch
Emma Boccanfuso’s feature length debut world premieres at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘Michael’ review: Antoine Fuqua’s bland biopic glosses over Michael Jackson’s troubled legacy
Jackson’s nephew Jafaar Jackson stars as The King Of Pop, alongside Colman Domingo and Nia Long
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Reviews‘Heat’ review: Experiential, immersive look at life in the hottest places on Earth
The latest work from Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd premieres at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘What Comes From Sitting In Silence?’ review: Uneven study of Mumbai’s first female Islamic court
Sophie Schrago’s fly-on-the-wall doc plays Visions du Reel’s National Competition
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Reviews‘Alea Jacarandas’ review: Intimate doc explores the city of Algiers through a father-son relationship
Hassen Ferhani’s layered cine-essay premieres in Visions du Reel’s Burning Lights competition
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Reviews‘Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava’ review: Vietnam’s Nông Nhật Quang puts his family under the microscope
The film premieres at Visions du Reel before heading to Hot Docs
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Reviews‘Jaripeo’ review: Lyrical, layered documentary portrait of Mexico’s queer rodeo subculture
The film plays Visions du Reel after a Sundance premiere and Berlin Panorama berth
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Reviews‘The Mummy’ review: Lee Cronin follows ‘Evil Dead Rise’ with listless take on the classic monster movie
Jack Reynor and Laia Costa star in Cronin’s gory, derivative possession horror
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Reviews‘North To Paradise’ review: Stirring real-life immigration drama opens BCN Film Fest
Dani Sancho’s handsome biopic follows Ghanian activist Ousman Umar as he makes a new life in Barcelona
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Reviews‘Mother Mary’ review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel impress in David Lowery’s finely-crafted psychodrama
The film boasts original songs written by Jack Antonoff, Charlie xcx and FKA Twigs
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Reviews‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ review: Chris Pratt, Anya-Taylor Joy and Jack Black return to voice chaotic animated sequel
Glen Powell, Brie Larson and Donald Glover also join the cast of Nintendo video game animation
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Reviews‘The Drama’ review: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson steer provocative dark comedy
Twisting relationship drama from ‘Dream Scenario’ director Kristoffer Borgli also stars Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie
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Reviews‘Underland’ review: Darren Aronofsky produces lyrical exploration of the world beneath our feet
For his debut documentary, filmmaker Robert Petit takes inspiration from the book by UK writer Robert Macfarlane
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Reviews‘Madfabulous’ review: Wales-set debut proves too pedestrian for its flamboyant real-life subject
Callum Scott Howells plays rebellious aristocrat the Fifth Marquess of Anglesey in this BFI Flare premiere