All Reviews articles – Page 7
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Reviews‘Jupiter’ review: Denis Menochet is imposing in blunt, airless French nuclear war drama
Alexandre Smia’s feature debut invites comparisons to Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House Of Dynamite’
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Reviews‘Furies’ review: George Clooney exec-produces this propulsive female-led Beirut bank-heist caper
Two sisters take on Lebanon’s broken economy in Rami Kodeih’s messy but hugely enjoyable Venice Spotlight title
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Reviews‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s muddled portrait of Vietnam veteran activist Allen Nelson suffers an identity crisis
Rodney Hicks and Geoffrey Rush lead the Japanese auteur’s Venice Competition drama
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Reviews‘Queer Edward II’ review: Intimate doc links the making of Derek Jarman’s 1991 feature Edward II and wider LGBTQ+ activism
Theo Rollason’s entertaining Venice out of competition title goes behind the scenes of Jarman’s feature
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Reviews‘House Of The Wind’ review: A tender Cameroonian study of solitude and unexpected kinship
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s debut finds emotional force in an ageing mother’s search for connection
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Reviews‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile’ review: Julia Loktev’s portrait of Russian journalists in exile deepens in its second chapter
The follow-up to 2024’s ’Last Air In Moscow’ proves every bit as compelling, if more intimate
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Reviews‘Wild Horse Nine’ review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell command Martin McDonagh’s potent 1970s character study
The director’s Easter Island-set fifth feature premieres in Venice competition and looks set for awards attention
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Reviews‘Too Much Sugar’ review: Robert Greene delivers a clear-eyed portrait of family dysfunction and filmmaking as therapy
The Procession director’s latest is a moving exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in small-town Missouri
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Reviews‘Bucking Fastard’ review: Kate and Rooney Mara are perfectly in sync in Werner Herzog’s strange tale of sisterly devotion
The director’s absurdist drama premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Falling House’ review: Unsubtle Iranian family drama turns a condemned home into a symbol of patriarchal control
A Tehran family is pushed to breaking point in Mohsen Gharaei’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘Ink' review: Jack O’Connell is magnetic as ‘The Sun’ tabloid editor Larry Lamb in Danny Boyle’s feverish Venice opener
Guy Pearce and Claire Foy also star in this seductive, high-energy portrait of ambition and media disruption
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Reviews‘My Notes On Mars’ review: Lili Horvat opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori with genre-coded tale of love, desire and control
Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend star in this enigmatic English-language relationship drama set in Hungary.
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Reviews‘The Girl With The Leica’ review: Gerda Taro biopic struggles to bring its pioneering photojournalist subject into focus
Alina Marazzi’s lively, mannered portrait of the Spanish Civil War photographer opens Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘The Dog Stars’ review: Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley navigate the apocalypse in muted, tender Ridley Scott drama
Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce also star in the director’s near-future set adaptation of the novel by Peter Heller
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Reviews‘Don’t Ask Me If I Killed’ review: Ukranian filmmaker-turned-soldier Helena Maksyom presents an intimate view of conflict
Maksyom’s intesely personal documentary, filmed over three years, recently received a special mention at Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Skateboarding Is Not For Girls’ review: Dina Duma’s family drama challenges patriarchal injustice with a light touch
Charming Tribeca prizewinner makes its European premiere at Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Bear With Me’ review: Compelling documentary celebrates a retired circus trainer and her beloved animal
Martin Genovski’s Sarajevo premiere has been constructed with care and a good dose of humour
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Reviews‘Mutiny’ review: Jason Statham finds himself all at sea in uninspired cargo ship thriller
Jean-Francois Richet’s muscular feature fails to make the most of its action star
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Reviews‘The Balkan Cowboy’ review: Poignant documentary pays quirky tribute to filmmaker Hari Dzekson
Dublin-based visual artist Dragana Jurisic brings a personal touch to her Sarajevo title
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Reviews‘Pretty Babies’ review: Hollywood dreams turn into a nightmare in gritty, uneasy US debut
Tyler-Marie Evans’ Edinburgh competition premiere follows starry-eyed two high-schoolers attempting to make it to LA