Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 13, 2026 | Berlin 2026, Featured, Festivals |

Documentary director Grant Gee’s debut dramatic feature ‘Everybody Dogs Bill Evans’ offers a lyrical, fragmentary portrait of a troubled jazz icon at a crucial career crossroads.

Lady

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 12, 2026 | Berlin 2026, Festivals |

A young Nigerian woman battles social pressures and private demons in writer-director’s Olive Nwosu’s raw but impressive, energetic, prize-winning debut feature, ‘Lady’.

Master

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 7, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |

An idealistic politician is seduced by the dark side of power in Rezwan Shahriar Simut’s polished but predictable drama ‘Master’, which took home one of the main prizes in Rotterdam.

Hungry

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 5, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |

Austrian writer-director Susanne Brandstaetter’s visually stunning dystopian sci-fi documentary ‘Hungry’ starkly lays out humankind’s imminent risk of a climate-driven food apocalypse, and ponders how we might avoid our own extinction.

Projecto Global

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 2, 2026 | Rotterdam 2026, Festivals |

Bloated but compelling, writer-director Ivo M. Ferreira’s stylish fact-based retro-thriller about a real 1980s terrorist group feels like a Portuguese cousin of ‘One Battle After Another’.

Author: Stephen Dalton

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Lady

Master

Hungry

Projecto Global