This year's incarnation of the Ticinese festival served up a fascinating selection of both auteur and genre works. This critic had a great time. [Read More...]
This queer Georgian drama takes an iceberg approach to narrative, resulting in an affecting portrait of living under repression - live from Locarno [Read More...]
Starting off slowly before growing into a masterful work, this Tunisian movie is one of the standout films from the Locarno Film Festival. [Read More...]
The latest from the legendary New York auteur is a very moody spy thriller that barely ever seems to come out from the cold - on all major VoD platforms on Monday, March 21st [Read More...]
Just as he launches his pandemic thriller ZEROS AND ONES, the king of New York brings down the eternal city - read our exclusive interview conducted at the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
This cautionary tale of believing in conspiracy theories is greatly abetted by a strong aesthetic and some eye-catching imagery - live from Locarno [Read More...]
This unevenly plotted Icelandic cop action-comedy has laughs galore, a great villain and an affirming message at its heart - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
A modern myth for the Russian expat generation, this film excels due to the great command of tone by actress Tinatin Dalakishvili - live from Locarno [Read More...]
Evoking Beckett and Pirandello, this Italian chamber piece depicting an endless binge fails to mark its mark as a compelling piece of existential fiction - live from Locarno [Read More...]
After a year break, the return of an in-person Locarno has this critic feeling both excited and a tad trepidatious. Read our preview now! [Read More...]
British horror expertly recreates the video nasties of the '80s, as well as the moral prudity of the time, weaving them into an effective gore-fest - on VoD on Sunday, October 31st [Read More...]
A fascinating portrait of Israeli youth, the film splits into three distinct parts to cleverly bring into question the power of sexual liberation - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
This shallow American horror film delving into the world of conspiracy theories is deeply hampered by student-level acting - from the Berlinale [Read More...]
The story of a writer as a young man is excellently compressed into a sleek 84 minutes in this affecting French film - from the Berlinale [Read More...]
A boarding school turns into a type of colonial prison in this tastefully told East Turkey-set moral fable - from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
This delightful two-hander written by Mark Duplass is proof that just because your film is told remotely, you don't have to skimp on quality - from the Berlinale [Read More...]
A gorgeous portrait of life on the margins, this observational doc strikes us with both its directness and poetry — live from Berlin Film Festival [Read More...]
A Russian boy is forced to adapt to a new Greek reality in this surreal and haunting fairy tale set during the 2004 Olympics - watch it in December for free with ArteKino [Read More...]
After providing the landscape for the blockbuster of the year, the Estonian capital sees an impressive selection of 21 debut feature films vie for three major prizes - Redmond Bacon reports live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
The longest film in the First Feature Competition is also the best film. This epic of the human heart is filled with bittersweet wisdom — live from Tallinn [Read More...]
This devilishly entertaining horror-thriller boasts three great central performances from Tamara Lawrence, Jack Lowdon and Fiona Shaw — live from Tallinn [Read More...]
Timely Armenian drama set in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh uses a prospective airport as a metaphor for freedom — live from Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Our paradoxical relationship with food is deftly explored in this British-Estonian documentary - live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]
Refreshing, intersectional queer coming-of-age tale investigates Germany's failure to integrate second- and third-generation "foreigners" - on Digital on Monday, December 7th [Read More...]
Luxor-iate in the gorgeous settings of this travelogue film, boasting a fine performance from British actress Andrea Riseborough - on Sky Cinema and NOW on Wednesday, June 23rd [Read More...]
Psycho-sexual thriller drapes British national trauma within a neo-noir setting, offering a grim and foreboding vision of London - also available on Sky Cinema and NOW [Read More...]
Urgent and brilliant Czech movie charts the history of village on Austrian border ravaged by the tyranny of mid-20th century Europe - live from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
A self-contained nunnery finds itself intersecting with the forces of history in this mostly academic movie - running as part of Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Sadistic elites gather at a remote location in order to hunt down hapless plebs for fun, in this twisted satire of modern-day US - in cinemas Wednesday, March 11th. [Read More...]
David France discusses his incredible work of investigative journalism, Welcome To Chechnya, focusing on real-life heroes saving LGBT people in the region. [Read More...]
Witness two different versions of Romania: the alienating secret state and the dynamic communist ideal - watch it online for free in December only with ArteKino [Read More...]
