September 6, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja take on edgelord media with an inventively comic touch in ‘Egghead Republic’.
September 6, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
The screen-time satire ‘Babystar’ delivers sharp observations about social media coupled with a surprisingly bold visual style.
September 6, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
‘Saipan’ scores big in a thrilling true story about off-pitch football shenanigans.
September 5, 2025
Carmen Gray
Polish director Agnieszka Holland discusses ‘Franz’, her “punky” Toronto-bowing take on the novelist Kafka.
September 5, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
A family falls apart into each other’s arms in Hlynur Palmason’s distinctive ‘The Love That Remains’.
September 5, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
Newcomer Idan Weiss shines in Agnieszka Holland’s vivid portrait of the tortured writer, Franz Kafka.
September 5, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
‘Julian’ is the sentimental and stirring true story about a tragic romance and the battle for queer rights.
September 3, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Blending MCU levels of fan service with British baking-competition levels of coziness, this final entry in the beloved historical drama satisfyingly brings gentry and staff alike into the 1930s.
September 3, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The once-scary paranormal franchise finally gives up the ghost – and none too soon.
September 3, 2025
The Film Verdict
The head of EFP’s Film Sales Support speaks frankly about the challenges facing European film sales at home and abroad.
September 3, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
The Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, but by no means are they riding on cruise control. Even as they welcome dozens of stars on the red carpet, preparations are underway for the launch of a full-fledged market in 2026. It’ll be the third on the calendar attached to major festivals, […]
September 2, 2025
Clarence Tsui
The Venice bow of the restored version of Tsai Ming-liang’s Golden Lion winner ‘Vive L’Amour’ is just the latest stop on Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s festival tour, showcasing Taiwanese cinema, history and culture.
September 1, 2025
Stephen Dalton
Amanda Seyfried is on a mission from God in writer-director Mona Fastvold’s audacious, ambitious and mostly excellent avant-garde feminist musical about a real-life 18th century messianic female religious leader ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’.
August 30, 2025
Stephen Dalton
Marianne Faithfull died while making the arty swansong documentary ‘Broken English’, which is hampered by too much stylistic trickery but still delivers a rich mixtape of music, memories and boho-rock royalty.
August 29, 2025
Deborah Young
A farcical crimefest with a dark side, Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ amplifies the inhumanity of modern industry and the utter ruthlessness of salaried work in an engaging film full of unexpected twists.
August 28, 2025
Stephen Dalton
Emma Stone reunites with ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Poor Things’ director Yorgos Lanthimos for ‘Bugonia’, a slight but enjoyably bizarre remake of a cult Korean sci-fi kidnap comedy.
August 27, 2025
Deborah Young
Toni Servillo shines in a memorable, tragi-comic performance as the president of Italy in Paolo Sorrentino’s crowd-pleasing Venice opener ‘La Grazia’, an often funny, sometimes moving tale of the Numero Uno’s loneliness, inner doubts and obsessions and his inability to make up his mind on difficult legislation like euthanasia.
August 27, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Darren Aronofsky’s violent screwball tragedy might be his most “mainstream” movie to date, but it displays the intensity and darkness that’s become his calling card.
August 23, 2025
The Film Verdict
Stefan Dordevic’s sensitive doc portrait of grief won top honors at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.
August 14, 2025
Max Borg
Jean-Stéphane Bron tackles TV thriller territory with his series debut “The Deal”, screened out of competition in Locarno.
August 13, 2025
Alonso Duralde
While this follow-up lacks the wicked surprises of the original — it’s a sequel, after all — Bob Odenkirk’s nebbishy super-assassin and Sharon Stone’s deranged super-villain make for an amusingly violent late-summer trifle.
August 12, 2025
Max Borg
Past traumas are at the center of Zijad Ibrahimovic’s documentary ‘The Boy from the River Drina’, screened in Locarno’s Panorama Suisse section.
August 5, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reteam for an amiably laugh-filled comedy that brings the body-switch hi-jinks to a new generation of misunderstood teenagers.
July 30, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The gags fly fast and furious as Liam Neeson and director and co-writer Akiva Schaffer revive the outrageous film and TV franchise from Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker.
July 22, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Marvel’s original superhero team once again falters in a big-screen adaptation, one that’s heavy on period gloss but light on engaging characters.
July 16, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The occasional bursts of visual style and clever humor come too few and far between in this dreary do-over of the big blue franchise.
July 15, 2025
Deborah Young
Stories told “honestly and unapologetically” proved a winning strategy at the 6th Amman Intl Film Festival – Awal Film, an intimate, carefully programmed showcase for cinema from the Arab countries and beyond that is asserting itself as a major cultural event in the region.
July 13, 2025
Deborah Young
When documaker Areeb Zuaiter in the U.S. stumbles across the Internet videos of daredevil Ahmad, a teenage parkour athlete in Gaza, they begin a heartfelt long-distance friendship that becomes entwined with the filmmaker’s sense of belonging to her mother’s Palestinian homeland, in the fascinating and revealing meeting of worlds, Yalla Parkour.
July 10, 2025
Deborah Young
From a cash rebate up to 45% for foreign productions shooting in Jordan to educational programs to develop filmmakers and audiences, Jordan’s Royal Film Commission has become a leading force in the MENA region for film culture.
July 9, 2025
TFV Staff
With 150 film submissions, it’s already a win to be among the projects selected at the Amman Film Industry Days.
July 8, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The Man of Steel soars again in a superhero saga that plays to writer-director James Gunn’s considerable strengths at genre storytelling.
July 3, 2025
Deborah Young
Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film (AIFF) raises the curtain on Arab and international films for the 6th time, during a pause in Mideast hostilities and the ongoing tragedy in Palestine.
June 30, 2025
Alonso Duralde
This latest entry roars to life only when humans are directly facing dino-danger – and it takes far too long to get them there.
June 27, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Sequel to the sleeper hit veers away from horror into comic-thriller territory, delivering jolts and satirical laughs, though not quite enough of either.
June 26, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The cars go vroom but the characters fail to register in this technically proficient and dramatically vacant auto-racing saga.
May 26, 2025
Clarence Tsui
Some of the best discoveries of Asian cinema at Cannes this year took place in the Classics programme, with overlooked auteurs from marginal countries receiving belated acclaim.
May 26, 2025
TFV Staff
The diversity of art was a running theme at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where an Iranian filmmaker won the Palme d’Or and Japan emerged strong.
May 24, 2025
TFV Staff
Outspoken Iranian director Jafar Panahi takes the Palme d’Or with his daring ‘It Was Just an Accident’.
May 24, 2025
Deborah Young
Never has the world felt closer to the threats of rising fascism described by George Orwell than now, as filmmaker Raoul Peck (‘I Am Not your Negro’) lucidly shows in his new documentary ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’.
May 23, 2025
Clarence Tsui
En la competencia por la Palma de Oro, el 3er. largometraje de la cineasta española Carla Simón, Romería, ofrece un apasionante drama familiar que gira en torno a una joven en su búsqueda por la verdad sobre la muerte prematura de su padre.
May 22, 2025
Deborah Young
Jafar Panahi has never been more explicit in denouncing the torture political prisoners are subjected to in Iran, or the furious longing for revenge that haunts the state’s victims, than in ‘It Was Just an Accident’.
May 22, 2025
Clarence Tsui
In the running for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón’s third feature “Romeria” offers gripping family drama revolving around a young woman’s search for the truth about her father’s early demise.
May 20, 2025
Stephen Dalton
Kirill Serebrennikov’s muscular biopic ‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ about the elusive Nazi fugitive is a real-life horror story, sprawling at times but powered by strong performances and great visual swagger.
May 19, 2025
Lucy Virgen
Stéphane Demoustier directs an elegant film about the dilemma of creators on a real-life project.
May 16, 2025
Patricia Boero
El thriller argentino ‘Más allá del olvido,’ dirigido por Hugo del Carril, recibe una merecida actualización en Cannes Classics, 70 años después de su estreno.
May 15, 2025
Patricia Boero
The Argentinean thriller directed by Hugo del Carril ‘Beyond Oblivion’ gets a well-deserved brush-up at Cannes Classics, 70 years after its release.
May 14, 2025
Max Borg
Since 2004, the Cannes Film Festival has actively devoted part of its programming to restored gems, via the Cannes Classics strand.
May 8, 2025
Kevin Jagernauth
Oscar-winner Edward Berger’s papal thriller is flashy, pulpy, yet empty entertainment.
March 19, 2025
Alonso Duralde
When it comes to mob stories, Barry Levinson’s altos know the words but not the music.
March 12, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Steven Soderbergh’s thrilling marital spy caper plays like an airport novel ghost-written by Edward Albee.
