All Reviews articles – Page 99
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‘Recovery’: Red Sea Review
Rashid Masharawi traces the history of Jaffa in this inventive, personal documentary
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‘The Exam’: Red Sea Review
Shawkat Amin Korki’s taut drama concerns a young woman who risks everything to ensure she passes her exams
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‘Broken Keys’: Red Sea Review
Jimmy Keyrouz’s impressive debut feature chronicles the horrors of war-torn Syria
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‘Daughters of Abdul-Rahman’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
Squabbling sisters try to find their way in Jordan’s all-powerful patriarchy
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‘Farha’: Red Sea Review
Darin J. Sallam delivers a harrowing debut in this portrait of a Palestinian woman hiding out from Israeli forces
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‘Communion’: Red Sea Review
Writer-director Nejib Belkadhi stars as a man battling mental illness in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown
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‘Paka (River Of Blood)’: Red Sea Review
A long-standing blood feud between rival families gets reignited in this savage, vividly realised tale
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‘The Sea Ahead’: Red Sea Review
Ely Dagher’s striking first feature is a poetic look at a woman who returns home, finding a city she no longer recognises
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‘Zero To Hero’: Review
Hong Kong Paralympian So Wa Wai’s inspirational story is turned into an unabashed tearjerker
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‘Don’t Look Up’: Review
An all-star cast can’t dig Adam McKay’s ironic disaster movie out of a comet-sized hole
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‘Being The Ricardos’: Review
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘I Love Lucy’ drama is here - although it’s not quite as adorable as she was
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‘Abu Saddam’: Cairo Review
A veteran trucker and his assistant deliver a powerful portrayal of toxic masculinity for Egyptian director and co-writer Nadine Khan
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‘Heliopolis’: Review
Algeria’s International Oscar submission chronicles the nation’s long struggle for independence
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‘Becoming’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
All-female anthology takes a sparky driver’s seat approach to life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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‘Do Not Hesitate’: Review
Young soldiers get in over their head in Shariff Korver’s slow-burning tale
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‘The Stranger’: Cairo Review
Palestine’s submission to the international Oscar category is set in the disputed Golan Heights
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‘West Side Story’: Review
Steven Spielberg approaches this sacred text with a care which gives it a modern resonance
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‘Nightmare Alley’: Review
Guillermo del Toro’s rich remake of the 1947 noir stars Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett
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‘107 Mothers’: Cairo Review
Inside a women’s prison in Ukraine, incarcerated mothers are forced to hand their children over for adoption