[Venice Review] On the Milky Road
Serbian director Emir Kusturica, once a revered name on the arthouse European scene, is back in the helmer's chair with On the Milky Road. His return to fiction...
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[Venice Review] Austerlitz
Having experimented with feature-length fiction films, shorts, and archival-footage documentaries in the course of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s output since hi...
[Venice Review] Brimstone
On paper, Brimstone has a lot going for it: it’s an ambitious European production that's been shot in multiple countries to capture the essence of iconic Americ...
[Berlin Review] United States of Love
It’s the dawn of a new era in ’90s Poland. The Wall is no more; ideas, news, and commodities from the West are coming in hard and fast, along with messages from...
[Berlin Review] The Patriarch
Halfway through The Patriarch (Mahana), young Simeon (Akuhata Keef) is enjoying a trip to the cinema that he's fought hard for. His grandfather, Tamihana (Temue...
[Berlin Review] War on Everyone
Steering into the frame to the sound of '70s rock music while giving chase in their muscle car to a fully-costumed, on-foot mime, the impeccably dressed, utterl...
[Venice Review] Blood of My Blood
The town of Bobbio, in central Italy, often recurs in Marco Bellocchio’s history, in the same way that the 17th-century episode of the ‘nun of Monza’ (whose aff...
[Venice Review] Man Down
Such is my fondness for 2006’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints that even ten years later I’m always on the hunt for new films from director Dito Montiel. The...
[Venice Review] A War
In only his second outing as sole director after 2012’s acclaimed A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm is commanding unusual levels of respect and anticipation with A W...
[Venice Review] The Childhood of a Leader
The feature debut from young actor turned screenwriter-director Brady Corbet, The Childhood of a Leader is an ambitious choice for a first project -- a period p...
