All Reviews articles – Page 2
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Reviews‘Faith’ review: Erin Doherty and James McAvoy drive delicate, genre-fluid exploration of grief and the unknown
Paul Andrew Williams’ wrenching follow-up to Dragonfly bows as a Toronto Special Presentation
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Reviews‘A Long Winter’ review: A sheltered young man faces a seismic shift in Andrew Haigh’s masterful 1950s Rocky Mountain drama
Haigh follows All Of Us Strangers and 45 Years with this atmospheric study of a splintering family
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Reviews‘Lovers In The Blue Night’ review: Anapurna Roy’s modest second feature interweaves migrant lives and loves in Mumbai
Roy returns to Venice Horizons after winning the best director prize in 2025 for her debut film Songs Of Forgotten Trees
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Reviews‘A Bit Of Light’ review: Ali Asgari’s profoundly affecting drama finds hope amid despair in contemporary Tehran
The Iranian filmmaker makes his Venice Competition debut with the story of a doctor pushed to breaking point
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Reviews‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ review: Cinematic, empathetic doc gets in the ring with Japan’s most iconic sport
Erik Shirai’s absorbing film will next play London after berths in Telluride and Venice
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Reviews‘Big Little Things’ review: A gay Chinese woman invents a boyfriend to appease her family in candid, personal debut
Writer/director Michelle Zhou takes inspiration from her own life for Venice Horizons drama
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Reviews‘Ground Floor’ review: Absurdist Hungarian comedy effectively turns a run-down apartment block into state of the nation satire
Ádám Tompa stars in director Gábor Reisz’s follow-up to 2023 Venice Horizons winner Explanation For Everything
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Reviews‘The Fire Within You’ review: Vanessa Scalera’s invigorating performance fuels Italian Christmas-from-hell drama
Edoardo De Angelis’s darkly comic feature premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Being Heumann’ review: Ruth Madeley impresses as US disability advocate Judy Heumann in broad period drama
Sian Heder follows CODA with cutesy dramatisation of Heumann’s 1977 San Francisco sit-in which opens Toronto
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Reviews‘Stuffed’ review: Jodie Comer and Harry Melling bond over taxidermy in bold, bracing gothic musical
The debut of UK filmmaker Theo Rhys premieres in Toronto’s Discovery strand
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Reviews‘NAZA’ review: Urgent, gut-punch doc from ‘No Other Land’ directors interviews Israeli operatives about their actions in Gaza
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s wrenching Venice competition film is executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer
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Reviews‘Until The Day Ends’ review: Vivid if limited portrait of revolutionary youth in modern-day Serbia
Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the charisma of lead Jelena Maksimović
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Reviews‘Guria’ review: Textured community portrait finds humour and hardship in post-Soviet Georgia
Levan Koguashvili’s black-and-white Venice Spotlight title finds its own distinctive rhythm amid poverty and tradition
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Reviews‘The Uprising’ review: A stirring Andrew Garfield is unable to energise Paul Greengrass’s listless period drama
The writer/director’s take on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt also stars Tom Hollander, Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie
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Reviews‘A Good Little Soldier’ review: A magnetic Alba Rohrwacher anchors Stéphane Brizé’s study of toxic workplace culture
Vincent Lindon also stars in timely, darkly comic Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
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Reviews‘Place To Be’ review: Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi star in odd-couple comedy which never quite takes flight
Kornél Mundruczó follows up Berlin title ‘At The Sea’ with Venice out of competition premiere
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Reviews‘The Color Of The Sun’ review: Sensual Okinawa-set coming-of-age tale makes for a striking, enigmatic debut
Venice Horizons title is visually assured exploration of adolescence against the tensions of contemporary Okinawa
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Reviews‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
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Reviews‘Union Town’ review: Fifty years after ‘Harlan County, USA’, Barbara Kopple returns to the frontline of America’s labour struggle
The veteran documentarian’s absorbing portrait of the gig economy is the third in her ‘labour rights’ trilogy