All Reviews articles – Page 159
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Reviews‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’: Venice Review
A deep dive into the poet/troubador’s most famous song
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Reviews‘Shen Kong’: Venice Review
Venice Days opener from Macao is a wayward lockdown romance which takes place in an unidentifed east Asian city
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Reviews‘Parallel Mothers’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz open the 78th Venice Film Festival with a powerful story of loss and remembrance
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Reviews‘Cinderella’: Review
This modern musical updating of the classic fairy tale fails to hit the highest notes
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Reviews‘Promises’: Venice Review
Smart political drama with fine performances from Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb opens Venice Horizons 2021
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Reviews‘Wild Roots’: Karlovy Vary Review
A lively, confident debut from Hungary’s Hajni Kis about an ex-con reconnecting with his daughter
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Reviews‘Wars’: Karlovy Vary Review
Editor Nicolas Roy’s directorial debut is a psychological study of life inside a military barracks
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Reviews‘Candyman’: Review
This elegant sequel to the 1992 original boasts a multi-layered, astute script.
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Reviews‘Boiling Point’: Karlovy Vary Review
Philip Barantini’s accomplished one-shot drama chronicles a restaurant on one of the year’s busiest nights
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Reviews‘The Tribe Of Gods’: Docs Ireland Review
Tory Island off the coast of Donegal is the rich setting for Loic Jourdain’s observational documentary
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Reviews‘The Staffroom’: Karlovy Vary Review
Sonja Tarokic’s debut follows an idealistic school counsellor in conflict with her colleagues
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Reviews‘Bird Atlas’: Karlovy Vary Review
An ageing, ailing captain of industry gets some fowl news in this delighful, deadpan Czech drama
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Reviews‘Her Socialist Smile’: Docs Ireland Review
A meditation on the life and thoughts of 19th century disability activist Helen Keller
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Reviews‘Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over’: Docs Ireland Review
A compulsively watchable cultural document of a stroppy, scrappy misfit
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Reviews‘Runner’: Karlovy Vary Review
Andrius Blazevicius’ semi-sequel to The Saint delivers ”a kinetic, pummelling experience”
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Reviews‘Far Eastern Golgotha’: Docs Ireland Review
An impressive debut with ’a boisterous, anarchic energy to match its charismatic but self-destructive subject’
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Reviews‘Sava’: Sarajevo Review
Matthew Somerville tracks the mighty river over its full course of almost a thousand kilometres
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Reviews’Shooting For Mirza’: Sarajevo Review
A son traces the life of his basketball legend father in this bio-doc of Mirza Delibasic
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Reviews‘Martyrs Lane’: Fantasia Review
Strange visions haunt Ruth Platt’s melancholy supernatural story