Reviews

Dir: Edoardo Gabbriellini | Italy Drama 2026 There are crimes so senseless that trying to explain them can seem almost indecent. Edoardo Gabbriellini’s The City of the Living, freely inspired by...

Dir: Francesco Clerici, Mattia Colombo | Italy 2026 There is an intriguing paradox at the heart of Anatomy of a Portrait: how do you make a life visible when almost nothing...

Dir: Nicola Sorcinelli | Drama 2026 There is something immediately arresting about the premise of Nicola Sorcinelli’s Balcanica: an Afghan father and son, both musicians, are forced to leave their country...

Dir: Gianni Amelio | Italy Drama 2026 Gianni Amelio’s Painless follows Davide, a thirty-something second-hand bookseller in Rome, living a small, self-contained life among other people’s books. His routine is upended...

STOCKHOLM AFTER DARK: SWEDISH NOIR Before Scandinavian crime became a global obsession, Sweden was already doing darkness rather beautifully. STOCKHOLM AFTER DARK: SWEDISH NOIR brings together five rarely seen Swedish crime, mystery...

Dir: Robert Greene | US 2026 Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar follows Ryan “Holli-wood” Holliger, a charismatic Missouri father of six children by five different women, as he attempts to make...

Dir: Alina Marazzi | Italy/Germany | 118’ | Orizzonti, Venice 2026 Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica turns the final day of Gerda Taro’s life into a haunting meditation on...

Dir: Danny Boyle | UK Political satire 2026 — Venice Film Festival review: the birth of the tabloid beast There are films that tell us about history, and there are films that...

Dir/Wri: Bruno Dumont | France Drama 2026 Les Roches Rouges marks an intriguing departure for Bruno Dumont, a filmmaker hardly known for conventional comedy. Here, however, he turns his attention to...