All Reviews articles – Page 2
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‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest
The writer/directors filmed in a residential shelter for mothers near Liege
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‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
Period-hopping Competition title also stars Shu Qi and Li Gengxi
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‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
A female singer faces a lawsuit for having a boyfriend in this underpowered Cannes Premiere
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‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Suzanne Lindon headlines a film which is ‘entertaining and classy, if shamelessly contrived’
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‘Woman And Child’ review: Saeed Roustaee drama heaps misfortune on an Iranian widow
Parinaz Izadyar stars in overwrought Cannes Competition title
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‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Czech debut from Zuzana Kirchnerova is born from her own personal experience and her Cinefondation-winning short
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‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Ariel Bronz stars as a musician tasked with composing a new Israeli national anthem
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‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Director uses divisive WikiLeaks founder to explore the wider freedom of the press
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‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Rising French star Nadia Tereszkiewicz also stars in this surrealist Un Certain Regard premiere
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‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Theodore Pellin won the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for his ‘soulful’ performance in Pauline Loques’ debut feature
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‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Trier’s third picture to screen in Cannes Competition co-stars Stellan Skarsgard
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‘The History Of Sound’ review: Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are clandestine lovers in US-set period drama
Oliver Hermanus’s intense, restrained film is set on the East Coast during the 1920s
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‘Romeria’ review: Carla Simon’s third, semi-autobiographical feature is ‘pensive and rather lovely’
The Spanish director continues to mine her own history for this affecting tale of a filmmaker in the making
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‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
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‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Story of two friends attempting to escape their marginalised roots could be an Un Certain Regard breakout
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‘Tell Her I Love Her’ review: Romane Bohringer confronts her own past in convoluted hybrid feature
Over-stuffed docu-fiction hybrid is the result of a close collaboration with French politician Clémentine Autain
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‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Alexe Poukine’s tonally-ambitious feature-length debut is balanced by a sensitive performance from Manon Clavel
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‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
’Fascinating, if not entirely successful’ adaptation sees August Diehl play the Nazi responsible for horrific human experiments at Auschwitz
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‘Girl On Edge’ review: Friendship turns to rivalry in Chinese figure skating drama
Director Zhou Jinghao’s debut bows in Directors Fortnight
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‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war