International: Europe Reviews
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! 4K Review: Talking About the Weather
Powell & Pressburger completists will be pleased with the new transfer.
LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS Review: A Phenomenal Directorial Debut
Jara Sofija Ostan and Mina Švajger star in Urška Djukić's remarkable film that's about more than coming of age.
THE TALE OF SILYAN Review: Astonishingly Precise Visual Storytelling
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
Now Streaming: MEAT KILLS, Or Rather Misguided People Do...
Hailed as "the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever" and proudly touting the NC17 rating it got during its States-based festival run, Martijn Smits' Vleesdag a.k.a. Meat Kills seems to be gunning for the gorehounds. As such I almost didn't see...
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Review: Worse Things Than Death. Unleash Hell. And So Forth.
Jorrma Tommila and Stephen Lang battle to the death in Jalmari Helander's pulverizing action thriller.
SIRAT Review: Meditative and Loudly Distorting
Directed by Oliver Luxe, the film is Spain's official Academy Award entry for Best International Feature.
MR. K Review: Revealing a Grand Illusion
Crispin Glover stars. If you want to take a mental break from complicated and intricate plotting, and give in to the absurdities of an European art flick, 'Mr. K' will be a highly rewarding moviegoing experience.
Toronto After Dark 2025 Review: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Really Really Really Loves Blowing Up Commies
After the epic Western-Thunderdome Nazi-killing smorgasbord that was Sisu, Finnish director Jalmari Helander returns to his large northern Europe canvas for another round of battle with Finland’s enemies. This time, it's in the key of Mad Max: Fury Road, against an...
San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress.
Serial Killer Brno 2025 Review: QUEEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING, Finnish Darker Comedy Series, Taps into BREAKING BAD Territory with a Twist
Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability.
EYES WITHOUT A FACE Blu-ray Review: When Guilt and Love Make You Do Terrible Things
Sometimes a film is so enshrined in a canon, taken for granted as representative of either a genre (or subgenre), a national cinema, a director or actor's career, that it risks being a film talked about, but perhaps not watched,...
New York 2025 Review: TWO PROSECUTORS, Hell Is Legal Evil
Sergei Loznitsa's film stars Alexander Kuznetsov.
New York 2025 Review: A PRIVATE LIFE, The Adventures of an American Psychiatrist in France
Jodie Foster stars (speaking French) in Rebecca Zlotowski's murder mystery.
Serial Killer Brno 2025: Danish Series GENERATIONS Blends Crime Drama Family Saga and the Supernatural
Generations stands out as a finely balanced study in genre fusion, merging elements of crime, family drama, and quiet supernatural tension within the framework of contemporary Nordic television.
New York 2025 Review: SOUND OF FALLING, Girls, Interrupted
Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year, where it won the Jury Prize, is one of those films, the charm of which is very hard to articulate clearly to an unsuspecting potential viewer...
New York 2025 Review: MIROIRS NO. 3, Haunted By the Idea of a Perfect Family
Paula Beer stars in Christian Petzold's new film. As the title suggests, everything is a reflection of what should have been. It's the idea of a perfect family that haunts his characters.
MotelX 2025 Review: THE LAST SACRIFICE Has A Few Aces Up Its Sleeve
On Valentine's Day 1945, on a hill in the Cotswolds, England, the 74-year old farmer Charles Walton is found dead. You suspect that a documentary with this premise might be just a true crime doc, but The Last Sacrifice...
MotelX 2025 Review: THE RUN Is Another Stab At The Interactive Movie
The interactive movie has had a history since Bob Gale's Mr. Payback and games like Dragon's Lair and probably even way before that. But it never exceeded beyond a gimmick. That is until the game industry found ways to make...
SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE Review: Wrestling With Grief, Decidedly Dirty Arthouse
Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis, and Dominique Pinon star. Yannis Veslemes directed.
MotelX 2025 Review: ALMA VIVA Is Another Winning Coming-Of-Age-Horror
Young Salomé has a great bond with her grandmother. She helps her grandmother out with seances, as her grandmother blends her Catholic religion with the older, more paganistic roots of the Portuguese countryside, and provides her services as someone who...
