All Reviews articles
-
Reviews‘At Night’ review: Experimental, allusive UK debut explores women’s shared experiences
Beatrice Gibson’s Paris-set Locarno premiere features cinematography from filmmaker Ben Rivers
-
Reviews‘Manhunt’ review: Intense psychological thriller follows two troubled boys across the Canadian wilderness
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Locarno competition title is inspired by real life events
-
Reviews‘The Green Eyes’ review: Locarno opener is visually striking, tonally uneven French asylum drama
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s magical realist film takes inspiration from the rare condition of resignation syndrome
-
Reviews‘One Night Only’ review: Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro spark in otherwise limp romantic comedy
Will Gluck’s follow-up to ‘Anyone But You’ opens in the US on August 7 and the UK on August 28
-
Reviews‘Ancestral Beasts’ review: Indigenous Canadian horror effectively draws on the spectre of generational trauma
Writer/director Tim Riedel’s creature feature premiered at Fantasia
-
Reviews‘Tony’ review: Dominic Sessa impresses as young chef Anthony Bourdain
Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones also star in the feature, which opens in the US on August 7
-
Reviews‘The Leader’ review: Michael Gallagher weaves gripping, grim drama about Heaven’s Gate cult
Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga shine in true-life tale that offers no easy answers
-
Reviews‘Village Of Eight Gravestones’ review: ‘Ju-on: The Grudge’ director Takashi Shimizu deftly adapts the 1940s Japanese detective novel
Matsuya Onoe stars as Japanese gumshoe Kosuke Kinaichi in this Fantasia premiere
-
Reviews‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ review: Thrilling Marvel sequel offers spectacle and emotion in equal measure
Tom Holland leads a sharp ensemble as Peter Parker faces new foes and old fears
-
Reviews‘Someone’s Daughter’ review: A knotty survival tale set against the hostile Canadian wilderness
Pascale Bussieres’s tightly controlled performance highlights this Fantasia premiere from director Wiebke Von Carolsfeld
-
Reviews‘Black Zombie’ review: Fascinating doc reclaims the zombie from Western culture and returns it to its African roots
Maya Annik Bedward’s film won Fantasia’s Northern Excellence Award for Canadian filmmaking
-
Reviews‘Corpus’ review: Hedonistic horror debut plays out against the sweaty club scene of late ’90s New York
The feature debut of former intimacy coordinator Corrin Evans makes its debut in Fantasia competition
-
Reviews‘Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters Of Steve Johnson’ review: Colourful portrait of the acclaimed SFX artist behind classics like 'Ghostbusters'
Nick Taylor’s Fantasia doc features a host of talking heads including John Landis and Tom Holland
-
Reviews‘Ferine’ review: Arresting Italian genre debut is lush modern giallo with feline themes
Andrea Corsini’s first feature world premieres in Fantasia
-
Reviews‘No Rest For The Wicked’ review: Atmospheric Danish queer drama makes the most of its 1860s Faroe Islands setting
Kasper Kalle’s Fantasia Cheval Noir title stars Pilou Asbaek and newcomer Egor Venned
-
Reviews‘Someone Special’ review: A therapist gets dangerously close to her patient in mangled Thai genre mash-up
The debut feature from Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng premieres at New York Asian Film Festival
-
Reviews‘The Odyssey’ review: Matt Damon leads all-star cast in Christopher Nolan’s towering IMAX adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya and Charlize Theron also star in the director’s follow-up to ‘Oppenheimer’
-
Reviews‘Gealtra’ review: Brendan Canty follows ‘Christy’ with slight, engaging study of young Irish-language musicians
Source: Galway Film Fleadh ‘Gealtra’ Dir: Brendan Canty. Ireland. 2025. 70mins Language is power and creativity is the brightest road to self-expression in Gealtra. Brendan Canty’s slight but engaging documentary (the title translates as ‘gang’) follows a group of young people from Cork as they embrace the ...
-
Reviews‘Fruit Gathering’ review: Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is delicate LGBTQ Myanmar drama
Aung Phyoe’s fine-tuned feature debut is powered by an impressive central performance from Nandar Myat Aung
-
Reviews‘Samurai Vengeance’ review: Tasuku Emoto stars in Takashi Minamoto’s entertaining spin on the Japanese period drama
Ken Watanabe also stars in Minamoto’s adaptation of Sayako Nagai’s prizewinning novel