International: Europe Reviews
SOUND OF FALLING Review: Fascinating and Powerful Cinematic Experience
From writer-director Mascha Schilinski, this Cannes Jury Prize winner is Germany's Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards®.
A PRIVATE LIFE Review: Jodie Foster Investigates Mystery. In French, No Less.
Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira and Mathieu Amalric also star in Rebecca Zlotowski's sixth feature, a mix of situational comedy and cozy mystery.
MALDOROR Review: Tense Psychological Action Thriller
Belgian director and screenwriter Fabrice du Welz revisits a painful chapter in the country's modern history in his new film, which is loosely based on the infamous Dutroux scandal.
Now Streaming: STAYER, Evasive Even Elstad Has a Daughter
Aksel Hennie stars in and directs, following a rock star who must reckon with his teenage daughter (Hannah Elise Adolfsen Fjeldbraaten) after a tragedy.
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Review: Give In to Your Inner Beast
Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connoll, and Alfie Williams star in the fifth installment of the infected saga, directed by Nia DaCosta.
THE PLAGUE Review: Zero for Conduct Again
Joel Edgerton, Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin, and Kenny Rasmussen star in Charlie Poling's psychological thriller.
AMSTERDAMNED II Review: A Playful Late Sequel
Let's start with a bit of history. Back in the eighties, we had this young upstart director in the Netherlands who did things everybody told him you couldn't do. His name was Dick Maas and I'll be damned if he...
EUROPE'S NEW FACES Review: Harrowing Migrant Experiences
Sam Abbas' documentary details a long journey built on hopes for a better life.
Tallinn 2025 Review: LIFELIKE Moves Beyond Coming-of-Age
Turkish director Ali Vatansever examines how a family shifts its dynamics as a terminal diagnosis intersects with caregiving, belief, and the virtual spaces that offer temporary escape.
Tallinn 2025 Review: SUNDAY NINTH Probes Memory, Estrangement, Blurred Line Between Fiction and Documentary
Kat Steppe's feature fiction debut examines the disintegration of memory and identity through a hybrid fiction-documentary lens, using the fractured relationship between two estranged brothers as its narrative anchor.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
Tallinn 2025 Review: THINK OF ENGLAND Dramatizes Britain's Attempt to Boost Morale with State-Mandated Porn Films
Richard Hawkins' film moves from period workplace comedy, rooted in the absurdities of producing a pornographic film for the war effort, toward a psychological drama shaped by mounting instability.
Tallinn 2025 Review: BLINDSIGHT Retools the Amnesia Narrative Through Immersive Experience and Storytelling Rug Pulling
Adrian Sitaru's latest work employs first person immersion to build a narrative puzzle that shifts into the register of a 'Black Mirror' episode, revealing a film with far more layers than its early realism and family drama implied.
Tallinn 2025 Review: FATHER, Immersive and Visceral Psychological Study of Guilt and Grief
Selected as Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the film is an incisive study of psychological rupture and its social reverberations.
Tallinn 2025 Review: NO COMMENT Finds Marital Comedy in a Political Crisis
Norwegian director Petter Næss turns to political satire to explore how a marital crisis intersects with the machinery of contemporary governance.
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.
