Yanis Koussim creates an eerie, uncomfortable atmosphere within an Algeria that has seen more than its fair share of horrors - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]
The human, the botanical and dreamy collide in Ildikó Enyedi's exquisite new film, about three generations of people in Germany and one single tree - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
French sci-fi with astronomic budget and top-drawer cast infuses a dystopian Paris with Marxist and Orwellian ideas - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Documentary sensationally claims that Exorcist II: the Heretic nearly destroyed the life of director John Boorman, but the arguments are only partly founded - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Franco Maresco's metatextual tribute to filmmaking is unabashedly silly and chaotic, and barely intelligible to non-Italians - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
In a world flavoured with highly saturated colours, one man carriers on with his silent, personal and meditative journey - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Multiple tragedies shape the life of a young woman and those around her, in this inherently sad and pessimistic Chinese drama - from the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Gianni Di Gregorio directs and stars in a very cozy and compelling family drama, weaving three generations of a family into one Italian apartment - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Tsai Ming-liang combines minimalism, non-narrative and slow cinema in his "hand-sculpted" new creation, about a man returning to rural Laos - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Barbara Ronchi starts as a sororicidal patient in a psychiatric institution of Switzerland facing off against a doting criminologist - from the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
Chinese actress-turned-director Shu Qi crafts a very familiar tale of coming-of-age marred by domestic abuse - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]
Three Afghan brothers devote their lives to the Taliban's interpretation of the Quran, in this intimate doc about the casualness of indoctrination - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]
Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - in cinemas on Friday, January 16th [Read More...]
Swiss director meets with nine Gaza survivors in South Africa, as they recall their tragic stories in conventional talking heads style - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
The spectacularisation of violence becomes a weapon for social change, in Gus Van Sant’s deliciously cathartic real-life drama - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]
François Ozon's screen adaptation of Albert Camus's meditation on indifference is as quiet and dark as its protagonist - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
The US is under nuclear attack, in Kathryn Bigelow's clumsily assembled and extremely toxic apologia of "preemptive defence" - now on Netflix [Read More...]
Iranian man preparing for migration refuses to let go of his bicycle, in a meditative drama with echoes of Neorealism and Kiarostami - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Timid teen has to grapple with multiple types of female oppression, in this quiet coming-of-age tale from Switzerland - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Covid puts personal and national allegiances to the test, in this very profound and robust Bulgarian piece of social realism - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Quiet spin doctor helps Putin to strengthen his grip on power, in Olivier Assayas's star-studded and lifeless political thriller - from the 5th Red Sea International Fil;m Festival [Read More...]
"Erased" indigenous community faces an uphill struggle for justice after self-appointed "landowners" murder one of their leaders - Lucrecia Martel showcases her activist doc in various festivals [Read More...]
Repulsive, mumbling creature morphs into a virile and eloquent wonder, in Guillermo del Toro’s extremely ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece - in cinemas on Friday, October 17th [Read More...]
A black cloud hangs over the head of those living near the Vesuvius, while time conveys both healing and destruction - Gianfranco Rosi's quiet and observational doc shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]
Boats, men and their imagination get terribly lost at sea, in Mark Jenkin's inventive fisherman's tale - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]
A magnetic Carmen Maura plays a Spanish grandma based in Tangier and determined to keep the house where she spent most of her life - Maryam Touzani's charming ode to independence at old age shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
Writer struggles to find work and inspiration, in this listless French drama about artistic authenticity and the gig economy - in the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
George Clooney stars as a movie actor who can only play himself, in this metatextual tribute to the American superstar - unimaginative Hollywood drama is in cinemas on Friday, November 14th [Read More...]
Werner Herzog presents his latest nature documentary in Venice, where he receives a Lifetime Achievement Award; sadly, his new creation is uneventful and inconclusive, with a meandering storyline [Read More...]
Sorrentino's study of physical, moral and political decay uses the moribund presidential office of Italy as its subject (the outcome, however, is barely political) - from REC Tarragona [Read More...]
