All Reviews articles – Page 5
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‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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‘Xibalba Monster’: Edinburgh Review
The Mayan ruins in Yucatan are fertile ground for a young boy’s fascination with death in this Edinburgh highlight
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‘Sunlight’: Edinburgh Review
British comedian Nina Conti’s feature debut is an off-kilter road trip romance between a man and a woman dressed as a monkey
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‘Toxic’: Locarno Review
Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town
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‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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’Lilies Not For Me’: Edinburgh Review
Fionn O’Shea is a gay novelist struggling with the homophobia of 1920s England in this surprisingly staid period debut
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‘Holy Electricity’: Sarajevo Review
Colourful, uneven Georgian debut explores the city of Tbilisi through the exploits of two door-to-door salesmen
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‘Fugue’: Edinburgh Review
A man must return the body of his transgender lover to a remote Peruvian Amazon village for burial in this enigmatic Competition film
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‘Family Therapy’: Sarajevo Review
A glass house in a Slovenian forest plays host to Sonia Prosenc’s satire of the nouveau riche
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‘Alien: Romulus’: Review
Cailee Spaeny picks up the cudgel in this efficient, derivative addition to the Alien franchise
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‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son
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‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror
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‘Luce’: Locarno Review
A lonely leather worker takes extreme steps to forge a connection in this Northern Italy-set Locarno competition title
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‘Death Will Come’: Locarno Review
A female contract killer takes on a job for a prominent gangster in Christoph Hochhausler’s Brussels-set noir
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‘Borderlands’: Review
Cate Blanchett outguns everything around her in Eli Roth’s uninspiring adaptation of the video game series
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‘It Ends With Us’: Review
Blake Lively stars alongside director Justin Baldoni in this incisive adaptation of Coleen Hoover’s bestseller
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‘The Killers’: Fantasia Review
Lee Myung-Se joins this South Korean portmanteau in which four directors put their spin on Ernest Hemingway’s assassin story