All Reviews articles – Page 5
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Reviews‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ review: John Travolta’s directorial debut is eccentric, diverting oddity
The actor-turned-filmmaker’s paean to the golden age of air travel bows in Cannes Premiere
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Reviews‘Clarissa’ review: Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo anchor bold Lagos-set ‘Mrs Dalloway’ adaptation
The Esiri brothers’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title relocate Virginia Woolf’s potent themes to modern Nigeria
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Reviews‘La Gradiva’ review: Observant French debut captures volatile youths on an Italian school trip
Marine Atlan’s Cannes Critics’ Week title is set against the landscape of Pompeii
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Reviews‘Gentle Monster’ review: Léa Seydoux is excellent in Marie Kreutzer’s undisciplined follow-up to ‘Corsage’
Cannes Competition title explores the collateral damage of abuse
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Reviews‘Club Kid’ review: Jordan Firstman’s queer drama is triumphant, acidic portrait of New York’s gay scene
The ’I Love LA’ star’s feature debut makes an impact in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Thanks for Coming’ review: Alain Cavalier’s playful final chapter to his long-running filmed diary
The 94-year-old director’s farewell film plays in Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘All Of A Sudden’ review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto form a magnetic connection in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s rich Paris drama
The film marks the third time that Hamaguchi has played in Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘The Blow’ review: Raw, affecting French debut explores the fault lines in a troubled family
Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s Critics’ Week title stars Diego Murgia and Romane Fringeli
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Reviews‘Congo Boy’ review: Central African Republic debut is a warm, humane portrait of survival
Rafiki Fariala draws on his own experiences as a Congolese refugee for this authentic Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Atonement’ review: Involving, balanced US-Iraq war drama stars a magnetic Hiam Abbass
Boyd Holbrook and Kenneth Branagh also star in Reed Van Dyk’s Directors’ Fortnight debut
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Reviews‘The Diary Of A Chambermaid’ review: Radu Jude adapts the 1900 novel into a biting commentary on the modern class divide
Melanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne and Ana Dumitrascu star in the Romanian director’s restrained Directors’ Fortnight title
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Reviews‘A Girl Unknown’ review: Assured, controlled debut traces an adopted girl’s journey through China
Zou Jing’s Critics’ Week premiere features an impressive performance from Resurrection star Li Gengxi
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Reviews‘Species’ review: Astute, extreme French body horror explores the pressures of modern life
Marion Le Corroller’s unflinching debut bows in Cannes Midnight
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Reviews‘Marie Madeleine’ review: Haiti-set drama finds grace in the tension between sexuality and faith
Gessica Geneus follows debut Freda with a sensual, socially-grounded tale of belief, repression and change
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Reviews‘Parallel Tales’ review: Asghar Farhadi drama is convoluted, superficial musing on the interplay between fact and fiction
Farhadi’s French language Cannes Competition title stars Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira and Vincent Cassel
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Reviews‘Fatherland’ review: Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler command Pawel Pawlikowski’s finely-honed literary drama
Black-and-white Cannes Competition title follows Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika
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Reviews‘The Meltdown’ review: Distinctive drama sees a young girl lose her innocence in post-Pinochet Chile
Manuela Martelli second feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Words Of Love’ review: Hafsia Herzi stars in energetic, lighthearted French family drama
Rudi Rosenberg’s Un Certain Regard title follows a young girl’s attempts to connect with her absent father
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Reviews‘Gabin’ review: Delicate, absorbing doc follows 10 years in the life of a boy in rural France
Maxence Voiseux’s debut documentary premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Alive’ review: Actress-filmmaker Aina Clotet’s grounded debut channels personal and global anxiety
Clotet’s Critics’ Week title delivers a controlled study of illness, impulse and the fear of time running out