2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Eric Poppe’s haunting and audacious ‘U – JULY 22’

February 19, 2018

Synopsis: On July 22, 2011, a right-wing extremist murdered over 77 young men and woman on Utoya island in Norway.… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Real Estate’

February 19, 2018

Synopsis: A Swedish woman returns to her home country after living 25 years abroad. She inherits a large building with… Read More

BAFTA Awards: ‘Three Billboards’ is Best Film; Oldman, McDormand, Rockwell, Janney win acting prizes

February 18, 2018

Stop me if you think you've heard this won before... Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has won the BAFTA for… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Laura Bispuri’s powerful and affecting ‘Daughter of Mine’

February 18, 2018

Synopsis: A drama centered on a girl who is living a seemingly happy life with her parents who raised her… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Cedric Kahn’s superbly acted and engaging ‘The Prayer’

February 18, 2018

Synopsis: A heroin addict enters a religious rehabilitation center far in the mountains in hopes of liberating himself from addiction.… Read More

Berlin Film Festival: The Critics Grid Scores So Far – Which Films are the Best Reviewed So Far?

February 18, 2018

With a third of the Berlinale Competition already behind us, here’s where the competition stands on the Screen International Jury… Read More

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

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… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’

February 17, 2018

Synopsis: When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: The raw and essential doc ‘What Comes Around’

February 16, 2018

It’s been an interesting few years for Middle Eastern cinema at the Oscars, with several films from Lebanon (THE INSULT),… Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Damsel’ starring Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson

February 16, 2018

Synopsis: A Western about a young man trying to free the love of his life after she is kidnapped and… Read More

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