Reviews

Dir: Jane Magnusson | Doc | Sweden | 116’ Documentarian Jane Magnusson takes a swipe at Ingmar Bergman’s memory in her sprawling in-depth documentary that marks this year’s centenary of the...

Dir: Karyn Kusama | US Thriller | 121’ You will gawp at Nicole Kidman’s transformation in this rather bleak and messy crime thriller cum character study of a lovelorn woman whose...

Dir.: Tabriz Noorani; Cast: Mrunal Thakur, Riya Sisodiya, Adil Hussain, Mano Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Freida Pinto, Sai Tamhankar, Raj Kummar Rao, Demi Moore; India 2018, 120 min. Tabrez Noorani was the...

Dir.: Olga Chajdas; Cast: Julia Kijowska, Eliza Rycembel, Andrzej Konopka; Poland 2018, 122 min. This hit and miss debut drama from Polish filmmaker Olga Chajdas struggles with an illogical narrative, despite...

Dir.: Robert Sedlacek; Cast: Victor Zavadi, Denisa Baresova, Zuzana Bydzovska, Kristina Kanatova; Czech Republic 2018, 124 min. Robert Sedlacek (Rule of Lies) transforms Eva Kanturkova’s concise script into a complex psychological...

Dir: Josie Rourke | Wri: Beau Willimon | Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Angela Bain, Thon Petty, Adrian Lester, Adrian Derrick-Palmer, Ian Hart, Simon Russell Beale,...

Rotterdam is one of the largest shipping ports in Europe and forms part of the prosperous oil-trading triangle known as ARA, along with Amsterdam and Antwerp. Rotterdam is the cradle...

Dir: Felix van Groeningen | Drama | 110’ | US 2018 Based on a best-selling memoir by journalist David Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY explores a teenage boy's descent into crystal meth addiction. It's...

Dir/scr. Marcus Lindeen. Sweden/Denmark/US/Germany. 2018. 97 mins. THE RAFT is Marcus Lindeen's follow up to The Regretters. As another studio-based experimental film it won the top prize at this year's CPH: DOX festival,...