All Reviews articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘Heysel 85’ review: Technically astute, narratively laboured dramatisation of 1985 European Cup Final stadium tragedy
Teodora Ana Mihai’s third fiction feature premieres as a Berlin Special Gala
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Reviews‘Allegro Pastell’ review: German drama is precise, emotionless study of millennial malaise
Anna Roller adapts Leif Randt’s book about a shaky long-distance Berlin-Frankfurt romance
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Reviews‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
The director follows ’Félicité’ with an expansive docu-drama spanning France and Guinea-Bissau
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Reviews‘A Prayer For The Dying’ review: Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly fight for survival in American West
Berlin Perspectives title is a striking, if tonally uneven debut from Dara Van Dusen
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Reviews‘Yellow Letters’ review: Ilker Catak follows ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ with powerful Turkish drama
Ozgu Namal and Tansu Bicer star in Catack’s meticulously-calibrated Berlin competition title
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Reviews‘Sunny Dancer’ review: Bella Ramsey heads confident and upbeat UK teen drama
George Jaques’ second feature also includes Ruby Stokes, Daniel Quinn-Toye and Neil Patrick Harris
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Reviews‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ review: Anders Danielsen Lie is phenomenal as the iconic American jazz musician
British documentarian Grant Gee’s absorbing fiction feature debut bows in Berlin competition
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Reviews‘Mouse’ review: Rich, bittersweet US coming-of-age drama from ‘Saint Frances’ filmmakers
The latest work from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson bows in Berlin Panorama
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Reviews‘Trial Of Hein’ review: Assured, enigmatic German debut blends rural unease and social allegory
Kai Stänicke’s impressive blend of period drama and folk horror bows in Berlin’s Perspectives strand
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Reviews‘In A Whisper’ review: Hiam Abbass is magnetic in sensitive Tunisian LGBTQ drama
Lelya Bouzid’s nuanced Berlin competition title is set over six days of mourning
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Reviews‘The Red Hangar’ review: Tightly-controlled 1970s Chilean thriller proves powerfully timely
Juan Pablo Sallato’s impressive feature debut takes place at the beginning of the Pinochet regime
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Reviews‘Only Rebels Win’ review: Hiam Abbass anchors this uneven but impassioned Beirut melodrama
Danielle Arbid’s latest feature confronts social prejudice and displacement in contemporary Lebanon
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Reviews‘No Good Men’ review: Berlin opener is breezy if somewhat conventional Afghan rom-com
Writer/director Shahrbanoo Sadat also stars in this Kabul-set romance
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Reviews‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ review: Fascinating doc re-examines 1985 assassination of Palestinian-American activist
Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’ film plays as a Berlin Special Screening after its Sundance premiere
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Reviews‘Crime 101’ review: Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo face off in slow-burn LA crime caper
Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan also star in Burt Layton’s adaptation of Don Wislow’s 2020 novella
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Reviews‘La Belle Année’ review: Delicate documentary follows a Swedish-French woman revisiting her past
Filmmaker Angelica Ruffier’s personal debut won Rotterdam’s Special Jury Prize
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Reviews‘Wuthering Heights’ review: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi sizzle in lavish, melodramatic adaptation
‘Saltburn’ director Emerald Fennell leans into the feverish emotions of Emily Brontë’s original novel
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Reviews‘Master’ review: An idealistic politician is corrupted in assured, slow-burn Bangladeshi drama
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s second feature was named Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition winner
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Reviews‘Variations On A Theme’ review: Rotterdam Tiger winner is intimate South African doc-fiction
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar follow ’Carissa’ with community drama set in the country’s Kamiesberge region
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Reviews‘Moonglow’ review: Isabel Sandoval directs and stars in underpowered Filipino neo-noir
Police corruption procedural bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition