All Reviews articles – Page 148
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Reviews‘The Sea Ahead’: Red Sea Review
Ely Dagher’s striking first feature is a poetic look at a woman who returns home, finding a city she no longer recognises
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Reviews‘Paka (River Of Blood)’: Red Sea Review
A long-standing blood feud between rival families gets reignited in this savage, vividly realised tale
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Reviews‘Zero To Hero’: Review
Hong Kong Paralympian So Wa Wai’s inspirational story is turned into an unabashed tearjerker
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Reviews‘Don’t Look Up’: Review
An all-star cast can’t dig Adam McKay’s ironic disaster movie out of a comet-sized hole
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Reviews‘Being The Ricardos’: Review
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘I Love Lucy’ drama is here - although it’s not quite as adorable as she was
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Reviews‘Abu Saddam’: Cairo Review
A veteran trucker and his assistant deliver a powerful portrayal of toxic masculinity for Egyptian director and co-writer Nadine Khan
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Reviews‘Heliopolis’: Review
Algeria’s International Oscar submission chronicles the nation’s long struggle for independence
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Reviews‘Becoming’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
All-female anthology takes a sparky driver’s seat approach to life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Reviews‘Do Not Hesitate’: Review
Young soldiers get in over their head in Shariff Korver’s slow-burning tale
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Cairo Review
Palestine’s submission to the international Oscar category is set in the disputed Golan Heights
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Reviews‘West Side Story’: Review
Steven Spielberg approaches this sacred text with a care which gives it a modern resonance
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Reviews‘Nightmare Alley’: Review
Guillermo del Toro’s rich remake of the 1947 noir stars Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett
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Reviews‘107 Mothers’: Cairo Review
Inside a women’s prison in Ukraine, incarcerated mothers are forced to hand their children over for adoption
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Reviews‘Dear Thomas’: Tallinn Review
Black and white portrait of the East German man of letters Thomas Brasch wins the top prize at the Black Nights Film Festival
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Reviews‘Plaza Catedral’: Review
Abner Benaim’s second feature explores the relationship between a melancholy divorcee and a poor street child
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Reviews‘Bad Roads’: Review
Natalya Vorozhbit adapts her own play for this anguished look at recent Ukrainian history
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Reviews‘Cadejo Blanco’: Tallinn Review
In Guatemala, a young woman goes in desperate search of her sister in Justin Lerner’s nailbiting drama
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Reviews‘Io Sto Bene’: Review
Luxembourg’s official entry for the International Feature Oscar is an understated melodrama that blends past and present
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Reviews‘Eskape’: IDFA Review
Neary Adeline Hay retraces the steps she took as a child refugee feeling post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia