Amongst the debut features populating Berlinale’s new section called Perspectives, none presented so admirably fresh take on fiction and political historie...
When reading Claude Lanzmann’s 2009 memoir The Patagonian Hare, director Guillaume Ribot was struck by insights into making the monumental Shoah. The book ...
Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis-pro-turned-coach at a luxury island hotel on the Canary Islands, in Islands, the English-language debut of A Coffee ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. The Ice Tower arrives in theaters on October 3.
If there is a filmmak...
Some images have become metonymic by nature, reflecting the political problems of today with little to no context needed. Such a shot opens Michel Franco’s...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our Berlinale 2025 coverage. Hot Milk opens in theaters on June 27.
A mother-daughter relationship...
How blessed are we to have a whole six hours of Kevin Costner’s mythopoetic Horizon already make their way to (some) audiences, especially when this project ha...
The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles developed I’m Still Here for seven years before it premiered as part of Venice's Main Competition this year. That...
Boosted by Locarno-awarded debut Instinct, Dutch actor-director Halina Reijn fit nicely in the A24 canon with her satirical thriller Bodies Bodies Bodies. Yet ...
Turkish director Burak Çevik’s fifth feature asks a perennial question (is there politics without violence?) and answers rather grimly, showing how in Turkey, ...
