All Reviews articles – Page 5
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Reviews‘The Meltdown’ review: Distinctive drama sees a young girl lose her innocence in post-Pinochet Chile
Manuela Martelli second feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Words Of Love’ review: Hafsia Herzi stars in energetic, lighthearted French family drama
Rudi Rosenberg’s Un Certain Regard title follows a young girl’s attempts to connect with her absent father
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Reviews‘Gabin’ review: Delicate, absorbing doc follows 10 years in the life of a boy in rural France
Maxence Voiseux’s debut documentary premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Alive’ review: Actress-filmmaker Aina Clotet’s grounded debut channels personal and global anxiety
Clotet’s Critics’ Week title delivers a controlled study of illness, impulse and the fear of time running out
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Reviews‘Forsaken’ review: Docudrama about 2020 murder of a French schoolteacher is uneasy retelling of a national trauma
Vincent Garenq’s exploration of the Samuel Paty murder combines careful reconstruction with more heavy-handed flourishes
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Reviews‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’ review: Fear and desire are potent bedfellows in Jane Schoenbrun’s twisty satire
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Schoenbrun’s follow-up to ‘I Saw The TV Glow’
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Reviews‘A Woman’s Life’ review: A dynamic Lea Drucker fuels Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s restrained mid-life drama
Bourgeois-Tacquet’s follow up to ‘Anais In Love’ debuts in Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘Ashes’ review: Diego Luna directs a quiet exploration of the Mexican immigrant experience
Luna’s fourth directorial feature stars an impressive Anna Diaz and premieres as a Cannes Special Screening
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Reviews‘Nagi Notes’ review: A stranger unsettles a rural Japanese community in Koji Fukada’s subdued drama
Fukada’s Cannes Competition premiere stars Shizuka Ishibash and Takako Matsu
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Reviews‘Butterfly Jam’ review: Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough and Harry Melling star in unconvincing Cannes Directors’ Fortnight opener
Kantemir Balagov follows ‘Closeness’ and ‘Beanpole’ with drama set in New Jersey’s Circassian community
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Reviews‘Dua’ review: Blerta Basholli follows ‘Hive’ with taut drama set against the tensions of 1990s Kosovo
The director’s Cannes Critics Week title features an impressive performance from newcomer Pinea Matoshi
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Reviews‘The Electric Kiss’ review: Pierre Salvadori’s 1920s Paris-set Cannes opener lacks genuine spark
Anaïs Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche star in retro romcom set against bohemian Paris
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Reviews‘Obsession’ review: Curry Barker puts an incisive, schlocky spin on the wish fulfillment horror
Michael Johnston and Inde Navarette impress in romance-gone-wrong
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Reviews‘Power Ballad’ review: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas pluck the heartstrings in overly sentimental John Carney drama
Carney follows up ‘Once’ and ‘Sing Street’ with wistful, unconvincing music industry tale
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Reviews‘Cold War 1994’ review: Third in Hong Kong crime thriller franchise is astute and entertaining
Stars Chow Yun-fat, Daniel Wu and Terrance Lau are joined by Hugh Bonneville and Aidan Gillen for director Longman Leung
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Reviews‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ review: Glossy fashion world sequel is cut from same cloth as 2006 original
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return for glamorous, predictable feature
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Reviews‘The Sheep Detectives’ review: Hugh Jackman leads an all-star cast in offbeat murder mystery
Emma Thompson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston also star in family-friendly feature
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Reviews‘From Dawn To Dawn’ review: Visions du Reel winner is delicate study of Chinese immigrant lives in Barcelona
Xisi Sofia Ye Chen turns the camera on her own family for her documentary debut
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Reviews‘Magilligan’ review: Empathetic Northern Irish doc explores the reality of life after prison
Ross McClean’s observational film should attract attention following its Visions du Reel premiere
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Reviews‘Saudades Eternas’ review: Modest, authentic documentary portrait of a Rio favela matriarch
Emma Boccanfuso’s feature length debut world premieres at Visions du Reel