All Reviews articles – Page 2
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Reviews‘Come See Me In The Good Light’ review: Affecting doc follows US poet Andrea Gibson’s cancer battle
’Good Night Oppy’ director Ryan White spends time with terminally ill Gibson and their partner Megan Falley
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Reviews‘Testimony’ review: Raw, defiant doc gives voice to survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
Director Aiofe Kelleher follows attempts to bring real and lasting justice to the women involved
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Reviews‘Three Goodbyes’ review: Alba Rohrwacher impresses at heart of Isabel Coixet’s warm drama
The Spanish director’s latest plays Tallinn after its Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘My First Love’ review: A disabled student fights prejudice in fierce Norwegian debut
Director Mari Storstein draws from her own experiences for this powerful Tallinn premiere
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Reviews‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation
Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei’s IDFA competition title follows a young Afghan artist attempting to journey to Europe
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Reviews‘Sisu: Road To Revenge’ review: The vengeful Finnish soldier returns in gory, underwhelming sequel
Jorma Tommila’s grieving commando goes up against Stephen Lang’s Red Army commander to muted results
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Reviews‘Wicked: For Good’ review: Cynthia Erivo sparkles, but musical sequel fails to hit the high notes
Jon M. Chu’s follow-up to 2024 box office hit ‘Wicked’ also stars Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum and Jonathan Bailey
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Reviews‘Emergency Exit’ review: Surrealist Spanish comedy is fitting swansong for star Marisa Paredes
The late Paredes is one of several passengers embarking on a magical mystery tour for director Lluis Minarro
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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Reviews‘The Good Daughter’ review: Impressive, balanced Spanish drama gives child’s eye view of domestic violence
The second feature from Screen Spanish Star Of Tomorrow Julia De Paz bows in Tallinn’s official competition
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘LifeLike’ review: Uneven Turkish terminal illness drama makes inventive use of virtual reality
The third feature from Ali Vatansever makes its debut in Tallinn Black Nights
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘Flood’ review: Impactful exploration of family and faith is exec produced by Laura Poitras
Debut director Katy Scoggin’s emotional study of her relationship with her fundamentalist father now plays IDFA
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Reviews‘Father’ review: Slovak filmmaker Tereza Nvotova presents a bold, powerful portrait of paternal guilt
Milan Ondrik gives a raw performance in Slovakia’s official Oscar submission, which now plays Tallinn
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Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
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Reviews‘18 Holes To Paradise’ review: Savage Portuguese satire sees a home threatened by fire and feud
João Nuno Pinto’s elegant third feature about a bickering family in southern Portugal premieres in Tallinn
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Reviews‘All The Time’ review: Three women are linked by shared trauma in intriguing if flawed Belgian debut
Amelie Derlon Cordina’s Brussels-set feature premieres in Seville
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Reviews‘Keeper’ review: Osgood Perkins cabin-in-the-woods chiller is more style than substance
Tatiana Maslany gives an impressive performance in the director’s follow-up to ’Longlegs’ and ’The Monkey’
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Reviews‘The Bad Names’ review: Pablo Molinero shines as real Spanish intersex figure Florencio Pla
Compassionate debut from Marc Ortiz Prades is set in the early 20th century and premieres in Seville