All Reviews articles
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Reviews‘Two Prosecutors’ review: Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction with a rigorous Stalin-era fable
The Ukranian writer/director’s Kafka-esque film is based on a story by author and gulag prisoner Georgy Demidov
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Reviews‘Promised Sky’ review: Follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’ opens Un Certain Regard
Three migrants struggle to make a home in Tunisia in Erige Sehiri’s engaging drama
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Reviews’Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ review: Spy franchise wraps a self-regarding double bill
Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Ving Rhames return for a sequel that’s more stunt than substance
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Reviews‘Sound Of Falling’ review: Trauma seeps through a century of women’s lives in rural Germany
Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Competition title is ‘a work of thrilling ambition’
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Reviews‘Reedland’ review: A violent crime rocks a rural Dutch community
Sven Bresser’s confident Critics Week debut makes effective use of its traditional setting
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Reviews‘Enzo’ review: Directors’ Fortnight opens with Laurent Cantet’s last film, directed by Robin Campillo
A ‘powerful valedictory’ from the late French auteur focuses on an adolescent working on a building side outside Mareseilles
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Reviews‘Adam’s Sake’ review: Critics Week opens with tense hospital drama from ’Playground’s Laura Wandel
Anamaria Vartolomei and Lea Drucker co-star
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Reviews‘Leave One Day’ review: Cannes opens with crowd-pleasing musical of ‘exceptionally Gallic’ flavour
Amelie Bonnin’s culinary-infused film marks the first debut ever to launch the festival
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Reviews‘Thunderbolts*’ review: Marvel ‘still has compelling tales to tell’
Florence Pugh takes centre stage for this mighty tussle in a post-Avengers world
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Reviews‘Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie’: Doc smokes out the history of US stoner duo
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reunite to tell their own story
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Reviews‘The Brightest Sun’ review: Hidetoshi Nishijima plays detective for director Tetsuya Nakashima
Pleasingly complex murder mystery opened the Hong Kong International Film Festival
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Reviews‘The Vanishing Point’ review: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Their memories become an act of resistance in Visions du Reel ‘Burning Lights’ winner
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Reviews‘The Last Shore’ review: The aftermath of the tragic death of a Gambian migrant
Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s debut traces the impact of Pateh Sabally’s 2017 death in Venice
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Reviews‘Sinners’ review: Ryan Coogler, Michael B Jordan draw blood in period vampire thriller
Hailee Steinfeld and Jack O’Connell co-star in horror rampage with a pointedly political bite
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Reviews‘Iron Winter’ review: Young Mongolian herdsmen drive into an extreme climate event
Australian co-pro tracks a lethal winter migration
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Reviews‘To The West, In Zapata’ review: Life on the extremes in pandemic-era Cuba
David Bim’s hypnotic black-and-white documentary debuts at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘Flophouse America’ review: Poverty, addiction and one-room living wreak havoc on a child’s life
Close-quarters doc is a study of a family on the margins
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Reviews‘The Amateur’ review: Rami Malek is an unlikely spy in underpowered revenge thriller
Laurence Fishburne co-stars in the latest adaptation of Robert Littell’s novel
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Reviews‘Shifting Baselines’ review: Behind the scenes at Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase
Boca Chica, Texas lives with the thrills and unquantifiable spills of the space race
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Reviews‘We Girls’ review: Feng Xiaogang and Zhao Liying unite for teary ex-con drama
Lan Xiya also stars in high-profile China holiday release