All Reviews articles – Page 9
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Reviews‘My Father And Qaddafi’ review: Libyan filmmaker Jihan explores the 1993 abduction of her politician father
Moving documentary looks at what happened to Mansur Rashid Kikhia, an opponent of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal regime
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Reviews‘Girl’ review: Actress Shu Qi’s 1980s-set directorial debut explores childhood trauma
The Taiwanese star also writes this bleakly beautiful but muddled drama which plays in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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Reviews‘A Loose End’ review: Daniel Hendler’s cop-on-the-run comedy is a deadpan delight
The Uruguayan director’s third film stars Sergio Prina as an Argentinian policeman forced to flee over the border
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Reviews‘Barrio Triste’ review: Colombian-American photographer Stillz sets his debut in 1980s Medellin
Harmony Korine produces the unfocused feature about disaffected kids, which premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘In The Hand Of Dante’ review: Oscar Isaac takes a dual role in Julian Schnabel’s offbeat biopic
Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa also star in Schnabel’s sprawling look at the Italian poet
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Reviews‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Noémie Merlant star in Marcello’s Venice Competition title
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Reviews‘Silent Rebellion’ review: A young woman learns to find her voice in 1940s rural Switzerland
Lila Gueneau stars in Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s accomplished debut which plays out in the aftermath of rape
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Reviews‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Venice Horizons title features an enigmatic central performance from Prapamonton Eiamchan
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Reviews‘Notes Of A True Criminal’ review: Alexander Rodnyansky explores Ukraine’s plight, past and present
Co-directing with Andriy Alferov, the Ukrainian filmmaker presents a deeply personal documentary
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Reviews‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ review: Kaouther Ben Hania revisits 2024 death of a six-year-old in Gaza
Wrenching Venice competition title blends documentary and drama, and uses real-life emergency services recordings
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Reviews‘Kabul, Between Prayers’ review: Engrossing documentary follows a lost generation of Afghan men
Dutch-Afghan film-maker Aboozar Amini’s follow-up to ’Kabul, City In The Wind’ focuses on three radicalised brothers
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Reviews‘Dead Man’s Wire’ review: Bill Skarsgard impresses in Gus Van Sant’s real-life crime caper
The director’s Venice title dramatises the 1977 kidnapping of a mortgage broker by disgruntled landowner Tony Kiritsis
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Reviews‘A House of Dynamite’ review: Idris Elba heads Kathryn Bigelow’s ambitious nuclear age thriller
Elba leads a superb cast including Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris in the director’s Venice competition title
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Reviews‘The Stranger’ review: Francois Ozon adapts 1940s Algeria-set novella into artful character study
Black-and-white Venice Competition title is adapted from Albert Camus story and stars Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder
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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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