All Reviews articles – Page 8
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Reviews‘Seven O’Clock Breakfast Club For The Brokenhearted’ review: Seoul-set romance explores love and loss
Moving Busan Competition drama follows a young woman struggling to move on from a relationship
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Reviews‘Beautiful Dreamer’ review: Sensitive South Korean drama explores the impact of suicide
A mother and daughter attempt to move on from the death of the family patriarch in Lee Kwang-kuk’s Busan premiere
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Reviews‘Without Permission’ review: An exiled filmmaker returns to Iran in Hassan Nazer’s bold docudrama
Real Iranian children discuss love and hope in the British-Iranian director’s Busan Competition feature
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Reviews‘The Second Child’ review: Lim Soo-jung stars in atmospheric South Korean horror-tinged mystery
A mother and daughter attempt to move on from tragedy in Yu Eun-jeong’s Busan Competition premiere
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Reviews‘Leave The Cat Alone’ review: Enigmatic Japanese debut depicts a marriage blown off course
Shigaya Daisuke’s Tokyo-set relationship drama bows in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘Funky Freaky Freaks’ review: South Korean debut is frantic tale of high school jealousy and revenge
Hyper-stylised Busan Competition entry is grounded by strong performances
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Reviews‘En Route To’ review: A surprise teenage pregnancy fuels this accomplished South Korean debut
Yoo Jae-in’s Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘27 Nights’ review: Daniel Hendler’s colourful drama contemplates attitudes to ageing
The actor-director also stars alongside Marilú Marini’s carefree octogenarian in Netflix’s San Sebastián opener
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Reviews‘Another Birth’ review: Lyrical Tajikistan drama sees a young girl search for a mythical creature
Busan competition title is first in intended trilogy from US-based Tajik filmmaker Isabelle Kalandar
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Reviews‘Baka’s Identity’ review: A trio of Japanese internet scammers attempt to escape their life of crime
Koto Nagata’s low-key crime thriller premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘One Battle After Another’ review: Leonardo DiCaprio powers Paul Thomas Anderson’s gripping thriller
Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor also star in the filmmaker’s audacious tale of revolutionary fighters
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Reviews‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ review: Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie head schmaltzy romcom
Two troubled souls take a road trip to the past in director Kogonada’s follow-up to ’Columbus’ and ‘After Yang’
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Reviews‘To The Victory!’ review: Toronto’s Platform winner blends fact and fiction in a near-future Ukraine
Writer/director Valentyn Vasyanovych takes the central role of a filmmaker desperate to stay in his homeland
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Reviews‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ review: Change comes to the Abbey in nostalgic final hurrah
Director Simon Curtis and writer Julian Fellowes serve up a familiar formula of scandal and sentimentality
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Reviews‘Normal’ review: Bob Odenkirk’s small town sheriff heads Ben Wheatley’s uninspired shoot-’em-up
Odenkirk reunites with Nobody franchise creator and screenwriter Derek Kolstad
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Reviews‘The Captive’ review: Alejandro Amenabar tackles formative years of Spanish author Cervantes
Newcomer Julio Pena Fernandez plays the Spanish writer in packed historical epic
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Reviews‘Blue Heron’ review: Contemplative Canadian debut sees a filmmaker confront her difficult past
Sophy Romvari’s accomplished first feature dramatises her own childhood experiences
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Reviews‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ review: Mockumentary sequel proves gentle swansong for fictional rockers
Director Rob Reiner reunites with stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer for follow-up to 1984 classic
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Reviews‘Steal Away’ review: Clement Virgo’s ambitious afrofuturist thriller explores sexual awakening
The Canadian director’s genre-bending drama stars Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson
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Reviews‘& Sons’ review: Bill Nighy’s disheveled alcoholic author heads intriguing family drama
Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay also star in Pablo Trapero’s English-language feature debut