All Reviews articles – Page 5
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Reviews‘Bring Her Back’ review: Sally Hawkins delivers ‘unspeakable evil’ for the Philippou Brothers
The follow up to ‘Talk To Me’ features the British actor as a malevolent foster mother
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Reviews‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Polish actor Maria Wrobel impresses in Julia Kowalski’s atmospheric second feature
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Reviews‘The Plague’ review: Joel Edgerton produces, stars in timely hazing drama
Charlie Polinger’s perceptive debut plays out at an all-boys water polo camp
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Reviews‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Diane Kruger stars in delicate story set on a remote island as the Nazi regime falls
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Reviews‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
A young girl, a scene-stealing cockerel and a culinary challenge fuel Hasan Hadi’s winning 1990s-set story
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Reviews‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López
Fraught trek across the desert in search of missing daughter is a cinematic risk for French-Spanish auteur
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Reviews‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
The 2018 Paris Yellow Vests protests provide the backdrop for this controlled procedural
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Reviews‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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Reviews‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Kei Ishikawa directs a dual timeline between 1950s Japan and 1980s England
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Reviews‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Kenichi Endo stars in Yuiga Danzuka’s precise Directors Fortnight drama
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Reviews‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Documentarian’s debut is beautifully based in the Hautes Alpes
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Reviews‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Sepideh Farsi’s ACID film pays tribute to its subject Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza in April
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Reviews‘Death Does Not Exist’ review: Animation follows young activists into battle
Felix Dufour-Laperrier’s fourth feature explores the individual impact of violent protest
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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