All Reviews articles
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Reviews‘Brave New Love’ review: Provocative Danish drama navigates the emotional fallout from an extramarital affair
Kathrine Thorborg Johansen and Anders Danielsen Lie star in Maria Bäck’s impressive second feature
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Reviews‘Hold Onto Me’ review: A tentative father-daughter relationship informs nuanced Cypriot debut
Myrsini Aristidou’s compelling first feature has been selected as Cyprus’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘How To Rob A Bank’ review: Nicholas Hoult is a Gen Z Robin Hood in David Leitch’s fun, forgettable heist movie
Zoe Kravitz, John C Reilly and Pete Davidson also star in the director’s follow-up to ‘The Fall Guy’ and ‘Bullet Train’
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Reviews‘The Riverbank’ review: Feverish Brazilian debut effectively opposes queer lives and Bolsonarian Evangelicalism
Directorial duo Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho’s feature plays Thessaloniki after picking up awards in Locarno and Rio
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Reviews‘Traces’ review: Powerful, respectful Ukrainian doc reveals the devastating impact of conflict-related sexual violence
Ukraine’s official Oscar submission continues its healthy festival run with berths in London’s Women And The World and DOC NYC
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Reviews‘Ulya’ review: Austere black-and-white biopic of Latvian basketball star Ulya Semjonova has compelling moments of warmth
Karlis Arnolds Avots impresses as the sporting star in Viesturs Kairiss’ Tallinn opener
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Reviews‘Gugu’s World’ review: Brazil’s Oscar submission is colourful, compassionate coming-of-age delight
Young star Yuri Gomes impresses in Allan Deberton’s queer drama, which opens in Brazil on November 5
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Reviews‘The Night That Binds Us’ review: Flat, introspective Chinese debut is boosted by a compelling performance from Hu Ling
Wang Jiangyong’s feature premiered in Tokyo competition, where Hun won the best actress award
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Reviews‘Kefi’ review: Three sisters reconnect after the death of their father in surprising, irreverent Japanese debut
Writer/director Kisin Saito’s wilfully unpredictable drama bows in Tokyo’s Nippon Cinema Now programme
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Reviews‘Two Cigarettes, Three Nights’ review: Mayu Matsuoka’s strong performance breathes life into familiar tale of 30-something angst
Yukiko Mishima’s pleasant Japanese drama premieres in Tokyo competition
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Reviews‘The Intertwining’ review: Contrived Japanese identity drama is buoyed by moving performances
Erika Karata and KPop star Jiyoung impress in Akira Yamamoto’s Tokyo competition drama
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Reviews‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover’ review: Milcho Manchevski serves up a darkly comic exploration of North Macedonia’s wealth divide
The ’Before The Rain’ director’s latest debuts in Tokyo competition
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Reviews‘The Nights’ review: Colourful documentary portrait of a working class woman in Buenos Aires
Ana Bovino’s feature documentary world premieres at Dok Leipzig
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Reviews‘The Mosquito Bowl’ review: Peter Berg’s hollow Second World War drama follows college football stars to the battlefield
Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård head this real-life tale from the ’Friday Night Lights’ and ’Lone Survivor’ director
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Reviews‘Red Before Dawn’ review: Garin Nugroho’s stirring period piece explores the development of post-independence Indonesia
Nugroho’s follow-up to ’Opera Jawa’ and ’Memories Of My Body’ premieres in Tokyo compeition
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Reviews‘Trees Are Watching’ review: Eva Green is a writer haunted by her past in Bahman Ghobadi’s undercooked Turkish horror
Martin Scorsese executive produces the feature, which plays Tokyo competition following a Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘>1.5°C Pyropolitics And The New World’ review: Slight but urgent doc observes the human cost of climate change
Austrain filmmaker Lukas Marxt’s study of the 2025 LA wildfires premieres at DOK Leipzig
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Reviews‘Magic Atlas’ review: Chinese-language animation deploys multiple techniques to striking, confounding effect
Sun Xun’s experimental feature plays DOK Leipzig and Tokyo after a Locarno premiere
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Reviews‘Sukiyaki’ review: Tokyo opener is sprawling, feel-good drama about Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto’s 1963 global hit
Takahisa Zeze’s biopic hits Japanese cinemas on Christmas Day
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Reviews‘Letters From The Silenced Country’ review: Mixed-media documentary proves a raw, disquieting study of Belarusian resistance
Andrei Kutsila’s film plays DOK Leipzig after winning Venice’s Golden Globes Impact prize for documentary