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 ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Stranger Eyes opens in theaters on August 29.
I always find it difficult to ...
Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which...
In Nine Behind, one of Sophy Romvari’s earliest shorts, a young woman is heard sobbing on the phone to her estranged grandfather: “I want to know my family...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. The Sparrow in the Chimney opens in theaters on August 1.
There’s something...
Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer: what do you care about? A Portuguese environmental eng...
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.
