All Reviews articles – Page 3
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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
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Reviews‘Steal This Story, Please!’ review: Energetic doc follows dogged US journalist Amy Goodman
Feature from ’Trouble The Water’ filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin makes its international bow at IDFA
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Reviews‘Cotton Queen’ review: Thessaloniki winner is assured debut from Sudanese filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani
A young Sudanese woman fights for control of her own life in Mirghani’s village drama
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Reviews‘The Running Man’ review: Edgar Wright’s bombastic Stephen King adaptation doesn’t go the distance
Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Colman Domingo star in Wright’s underpowered dystopian actioner
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Reviews‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ review: Jesse Eisenberg heads tricky third instalment of heist franchise
Returning stars Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher and Morgan Freeman join incoming director Ruben Fleischer
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Reviews‘Goodbye Sisters’ review: Engrossing doc follows two young women back to their remote Himalayan mountain home
This strong debut from French-Irish filmmaker Alexander Murphy bows in Tallinn
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Reviews‘Bearcave’ review: Lyrical, overlong debut follows two queer women in rural Greece
Venice Giornate degli Autori Europa Cinemas Label winner makes its home debut at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘In Your Dreams’ review: Netflix family animation proves something of a snoozefest
Alex Woo’s lightweight directorial debut follows two siblings who enter the magical world of dreams
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Reviews‘Remake’ review: Ross McElwee’s extraordinary, profound documentary looks back at a life behind the camera
The latest film from the ‘Sherman’s March’ director plays Stockholm and IDFA following its Venice premiere
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Reviews‘Happy Birthday’ review: A child maid wishes for a better life in affecting, sensitive Egyptian debut
Sarah Goher’s first feature has been selected as Egypt’s official Oscar submission














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