2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Real Estate’
Synopsis: A Swedish woman returns to her home country after living 25 years abroad. She inherits a large building with an entire floor that’s occupied... Read More
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2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Laura Bispuri’s powerful and affecting ‘Daughter of Mine’
Synopsis: A drama centered on a girl who is living a seemingly happy life with her parents who raised her only to then find herself... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Cedric Kahn’s superbly acted and engaging ‘The Prayer’
Synopsis: A heroin addict enters a religious rehabilitation center far in the mountains in hopes of liberating himself from addiction. There he experiences religion, friendship... Read More
Berlin Film Festival: The Critics Grid Scores So Far – Which Films are the Best Reviewed So Far?
With a third of the Berlinale Competition already behind us, here’s where the competition stands on the Screen International Jury Grid: Isle of Dogs leads... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Benoît Jacquot’s ‘Eva’ starring Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert is contrived and unconvincing
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
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’
Synopsis: When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: The raw and essential doc ‘What Comes Around’
It’s been an interesting few years for Middle Eastern cinema at the Oscars, with several films from Lebanon (THE INSULT), Syria (LAST MEN IN ALEPPO... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Damsel’ starring Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson
Synopsis: A Western about a young man trying to free the love of his life after she is kidnapped and accompanies a priest in hopes... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Heiresses’
Synopsis: Due to bank debts, an elderly woman’s long life companion gets sent to jail. She is then left to contemplate on her past and... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Isle of Dogs’
Synopsis: In Japan, after a wave of dog-flu hits the city’s dogs, they are all exiled to trash island. Meanwhile, one of the dog’s owners... Read More
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