International: Europe Reviews
Sheffield 2026 Review: In TRY!, Four Irish Teams Compete in Mixed Ability Rugby Championships
Against the odds, Try! takes a familiar sports formula and turns it into a genuinely life-affirming story about coping with "mixed abilities." In 2025, four Irish teams compete for the Mixed Ability Rugby World Cup in Pamplona, Spain. The sport...
ROMERÍA Revew: Family Secrets Are Revealed
In Carla Simón's autobiographical film, visual beauty undercuts its serious subjects.
Tribeca 2026 Review: DANTE, Big Twist in Store, But One That Doesn't Require the Sixth Sense
Chino Darin stars in Spanish filmmaker Hugo Ruiz's thriller.
Tribeca 2026 Review: SKATEBOARDING IS NOT FOR GIRLS, Bittersweet Tale of Girlhood Realities
Efkjar Abaz and Džefrina Jašari star in Macedonian filmmaker Dina Duma's dramatic feature.
Tribeca 2026 Review: ONLY WHAT WE CARRY, More Poetic Than Profound
Jamie Adams directed, with Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quentin Tarantino, Lizzy McAlpine and Liam Hellmann.
CHARADE Blu-ray Review: Spies, Danger, Laughs and Fashion an Eclectic Criterion Mix
'Comedy' and 'thriller' are not genres that often go together; or if they do, the emphasis is generally on the comedy aspect and not the thrills. If there are thrills, they are usually brushed off as unserious enough to relax...
Cannes 2026 Review: SPECIES (SANGUINE) Is THE SUBSTANCE for the Burnout Generation
French newcomer Marion Le Coroller asserts herself as part of a new generation of New French Extremity, retooling its corporeal shocks into a sharp and gory generational statement.
THE CURRENTS Review: Better Than a Cold Plunge
Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler, the psychological mystery stars Isabel Aimé González Sola and Esteban Bigliardi.
FORASTERA Review: Moving Slowly Into That Good Night
Fipresci Award-winning film, starring Zoe Stein and Lluis Homar, directed by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias.
Cannes 2026 Review: THE ELECTRIC KISS (La Vénus Électrique), Gallic Comedy Parodying Spirit Possession
Anaïs Demoustier, Pio Marmaï, and Gilles Lelouche star in the French romantic movie.
DECORADO Review: Everything Is Strange Here
Alberto Vázquez expands his short film into a transcendent dark comedy for adults.
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN Review: Threading a Needle Through Russian Chaos
Paul Dano and Jude Law star in Olivier Assayas' film about a reign of chaos in post-Soviet Russia. Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, and Jeffrey Wright also star.
SILENT FRIEND Review: If Trees Could Talk
Tony Leung stars in his first European production, directed by Ildiko Enyedi. Léa Seydoux also stars.
HERESY Review: Dark Medieval Horror That Is Quite Fun
Didier Konings' folk horror film stars Anneke Sluiters, Len Leo Vincent, and Reinout Bussemaker.
HOKUM Review: Nonstop Fright Factory
Adam Scott stars in Damian McCarthy's latest chiller.
AMRUN Review: Austere and Solitary Observer with Confused Psyche
Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Lisa Hagmeister, and Kian Köppke star in this historical drama.
Diagonale 2026 Review: MOTHER'S BABY Masks a Paranoid Thriller Within an Ambiguous Psychological Portrait
Marie Leuenberger and Claes Bang star. Austrian filmmaker Johanna Moder tackles post-partum depression and potential psychosis as a slow-burning paranoid thriller, where maternal anxiety is filtered through an unreliable perspective and edged with traces of dark humour.
Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.
Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic
Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy.
Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser
Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s.
