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[Berlin Review] Fire at Sea

The opening titles of Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary Fire at Sea state that 400,000 migrants have landed on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in the past 20 y...

[Berlin Review] Things to Come

The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional ...

[Berlin Review] Uncle Howard

How many great filmmakers have been lost as a result of disease and human catastrophe? That seems to be the question on the mind of documentary filmmaker Aaron ...

[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...

[Berlin Review] Midnight Special

Ambiguity might be the most useful item in the science fiction toolbox. Blade Runner’s mysteries still rob people of sleep, and you’d need a wall chart to work ...

[Berlin Review] Hedi

The protagonist and namesake of Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi certainly isn’t cinema’s first leading man to seek validation from a more free-spirited woman, and it's...

[Review] Glassland

There's no doubt that Irish actor Jack Reynor deserves recognition for his role in Glassland, a modern-day kitchen sink drama set in a south Dublin social housi...

[Review] Regression

Absurdity turns quickly to boredom in Alejandro Amenábar’s Regression, the latest picture unceremoniously dumped by The Weinstein Company to your local multiple...