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73rd Berlin Film Festival winners: ‘On the Adamant’ doc wins Golden Bear, 8-year-old Sofia Otero wins for leading performance

Erik Anderson February 25, 2023

Veteran French documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert has won the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival for his film On the Adamant, an examination... Read More

‘Golda’ review: An impressive Helen Mirren can’t save one-sided legacy biopic embedded with a fear of Meir | Berlinale

Ben Rolph February 21, 2023

Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s latest film is a biopic about the first and only female prime minister of Israel. Helen Mirren is nearly unrecognisable as... Read More

‘Inside’ review: Art thief Willem Dafoe gets locked up by human isolation in COVID-allegorical psychological drama | Berlinale

Ben Rolph February 21, 2023

Vasilis Katsoupis’s debut feature is a claustrophobic psychological drama that features an unbridled Willem Dafoe performance. The Berlinale is the perfect debut platform for a... Read More

‘She Came to Me’ review: Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway stun in ace rom-com dramedy | Berlinale

Ben Rolph February 16, 2023

The latest film from writer-director Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan, Personal Velocity) starring Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei and Emmy winner Peter Dinklage, is... Read More

Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’

Hugo Emmerzael March 3, 2021

It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts as early of approximately 3200... Read More

Focus Features’ ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ goes on-demand on April 3

Erik Anderson March 27, 2020

NBCUniversal has announced their specialty film label Focus Features’ latest title Never Rarely Sometimes Always, an urgent and poignant drama, will be re-released at home on demand... Read More

70th Berlin Film Festival winners: Iranian ‘There Is No Evil,’ USA’s ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ and more

Erik Anderson February 29, 2020

The winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bear and more at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, headed by jury president Jeremy Irons, were handed... Read More

Berlin Review: ‘First Cow,’ Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon for a ruminative tale of the American Frontier

Jack King February 27, 2020

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship”: A famous proverb from the pen of Romanticist poet William Blake. His philosophical implication here,... Read More

Berlin Review: Despite a deft all-star cast ‘The Roads Not Taken’ is a wrong turn

Rhys Handley February 26, 2020

In Sally Potter’s reality-hopping drama The Roads Not Taken, all the staples of prestige awards-courting Hollywood are present for better or worse. Pushed by big... Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Benoît Jacquot’s ‘Eva’ starring Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert is contrived and unconvincing

Erik Anderson February 17, 2018

Synopsis: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. Benoît Jacquot’s EVA is a revenge thriller that... Read More