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All Reviews articles – Page 4
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Reviews‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire
Charming performances carry Asgari’s fifth feature about a fictional director attempting to screen his latest film in Tehran
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Reviews‘Marc By Sofia’ review: Sofia Coppola profiles designer Marc Jacobs in this warm documentary
The pair’s longstanding friendship results in a lightweight film which premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Roqia’ review: Atmospheric Algerian debut filters civil war through a genre lens
Writer/director Yanis Koussim turns Algeria’s Black Decade into an effective possession narrative
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Reviews‘The Smashing Machine’ review: Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt clash in Benny Safdie’s UFC drama
Benny Safdie’s first solo directorial work is based on real life wrestler Mark Kerr. It premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Lost Land’ review: Two young siblings from Myanmar journey alone in search of a better life
Well-intentioned Venice Horizons title from Japanese filmmaker Akio Fujimoto is first-ever Rohingya-language feature
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Reviews‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ review: Amanda Seyfried is 18th-century preacher in audacious musical
Mona Fastvold and co-writer Brady Corbet’s uneven biopic of the eponymous Shaker founder bows in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Andrea Di Stefano’s 1980s-set comedy premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Made In EU’ review: Stephan Komandarev follows ‘Blaga’s Lessons’ with sharp Bulgarian Covid drama
Gergana Pletnyova stars as a seamstress who becomes the scapegoat for a Covid-19 outbreak
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Reviews‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ review: Jim Jarmusch and starry cast deliver tender family triptych
Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Krieps are among the ensemble of Jarmusch’s Venice competition title
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Reviews‘The Wizard Of The Kremlin’ review: Jude Law impresses as Vladimir Putin in Oliver Assayas drama
Dense Venice competition title also stars Paul Dano as Putin’s chief strategist
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Reviews‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Laura Samani’s engaging comedy-drama premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Landmarks’ review: Lucrecia Martel critiques Argentina’s treatment of its Indigenous communities
The writer/director’s debut documentary focuses on a real-life murder trial
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Reviews‘The Holy Boy’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s third feature is a warped coming-of-age tale
Italian horror from the director of ’Flowing’ premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘The Last Viking’ review: Mads Mikkelsen stars in Anders Thomas Jensen’s wry Danish comedy
Mikkelsen plays the traumatised brother of a criminal looking for his loot
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Reviews‘Motor City’ review: Seventies Detroit revenge thriller proves more style than substance
Shailene Woodley stars in Potsy Ponciroli’s schlocky, dialogue-light Venice Spotlight title
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Reviews‘Frankenstein’ review: Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi spark in Guillermo del Toro’s operatic adaptation
Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance also star in del Toro’s epic take on Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel
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Reviews‘Late Fame’ review: Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in pleasing New York Story
The second feature from Kent Jones bows in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Below The Clouds’ review: Evocative black-and-white study of Naples from documentarian Gianfranco Rosi
Italian filmmaker’s Venice competition title is a strikingly melancholic portrait of the southern Italian city
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Reviews‘Rose Of Nevada’ review: George MacKay and Callum Turner star in Mark Jenkin’s atmospheric time-travel tale
Jenkin’s follows up ‘Bait’ and ’Enys Men’ with perhaps his most accessible film to date
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Reviews‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast
Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay