All Reviews articles – Page 8
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Reviews‘Our Share Of Sand’ review: A move from the UK to rural India proves a painful rite-of-passage in quietly powerful debut
Shalini Adnani’s level-headed Venice Critics Week titles features a strong performance from newcomer Maya Mehta
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Reviews‘Elsinore’ review: Andrew Scott is triumphant as terminally ill Scottish actor Ian Charleson in poignant ’80s theatreland drama
Simon Stone’s dramatisation of Charleson’s portrayal of Hamlet bows in Telluride before traveling to Toronto and London
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Reviews‘The Idiot(s)’ review: Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn spar in an audacious portrait of the Dostoevskys
An irreverent, eccentric take on the turbulent marriage behind one of literature’s great names
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Reviews‘Tender Loving Care’ review: Mike Leigh turns his compassionate gaze on contemporary Londoners
The veteran filmaker’s modestly scaled ensemble drama should connect with loyal admirers and discerning arthouse audiences
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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