Film Reviews

8339 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 21/02/2026. 690 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Isabel by Gabe Klinger

21/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Marina Person plays an unfulfilled, yet ambitious, sommelière in Gabe Klinger’s sophisticated, São Paulo-set comedy-drama  

Isabel

Isabel

A Family by Mees Peijnenburg

21/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Dutch director Mees Peijnenburg delivers a nerve-racking account of a divorce as seen through the eyes of teenagers  

A Family

A Family

17 by Kosara Mitić

20/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Kosara Mitić’s blistering debut feature might stun viewers as she seeks to continue a long-overdue conversation on the quotidian nature of sexual violence  

17

17

The Loneliest Man in Town by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

20/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s docufiction comedy introduces us to the world of Austrian blues troubadour Al Cook  

The Loneliest Man in Town

The Loneliest Man in Town

Wax & Gold by Ruth Beckermann

20/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann dives into the long-lasting impact of former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and the Western view of his conflicted legacy  

Wax & Gold

Wax & Gold

Enough Is Enough by Elisé Sawasawa

20/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: The horrors of daily life in the eastern province of DR Congo and the anger of its citizens are at the heart of Elisé Sawasawa’s direct and disquieting documentary  

Trop c’est trop

Trop c’est trop

I Understand Your Displeasure by Kilian Armando Friedrich

20/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: German director Kilian Armando Friedrich’s fiction debut examines the structural pressures of contemporary low-wage labour  

Ich verstehe Ihren Unmut

Ich verstehe Ihren Unmut

Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun explores the role and place of the wonderful and the invisible in a gloriously directed film which urges us to read between the lines  

Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Roya by Mahnaz Mohammadi

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Mahnaz Mohammadi’s second feature portrays an imprisoned Iranian woman’s resistance, blending political urgency with powerful psychological depth  

Roya

Roya

Prosecution by Faraz Shariat

19/02/2026

BERLINALE 2026: Faraz Shariat returns with a searing indictment of the so-called objectivity of the state, set within a thriller centring on the festival’s most badass protagonist  

Staatsschutz

Staatsschutz

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