It’s a tall tale out of a Borges story, the wildest conspiracy theory you’ve never heard. In the 1960s, Italian Benedictine monk Pellegrino Ernetti claimed...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Secret Agent opens in theaters on November 26.
When Armando (Wagner ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. Reflection in a Dead Diamond opens in theaters on November 21 and arrives on...
“Klara remembered who she was. She pulled away from the window and she was a sculptor, although she didn't always believe it, an artist––she believed them some...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. It Was Just an Accident is now in theaters.
If you were handed over the ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. After the Hunt arrives in theaters on October 10.
“It’s a fucking minefield,...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. Bogancloch arrives in theaters on October 3.
“O God, I could be bounde...
In 1921, three years since the end of WWI, a train departed the small town of Aquileia in northeastern Italy. Draped in flags and wreathes, it carried the coff...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Sleep with Your Eyes Open opens in theaters on September 5, 2025.
Tucked ...
The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability ...
An Italian-born, UK-raised film critic, Leonardo Goi is an alumnus of the Locarno Critics Academy and Berlinale Talents, where he coordinates the Talent Press. Along with The Film Stage, he writes for MUBI, Senses of Cinema, and Kinoscope. For reviews and reports from the festival circuit, follow him on Twitter at @LeonardoGoi.
