Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

The stories complement each other with perfection, and without didacticism. Review

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele paints an evocative picture of heartfelt and sincere depravity. Review

All in all, a good film that could have done with a little trimming, toning-down and maybe turning down the volume. Review

Garcia delivers a quietly devastating performance. Review

Bi Gan's tribute to cinema is a self-indulgent potboiler; it thinks that the seventh art should rely almost exclusively on studio antics. Review

Morality issues aside, Woman and Child is not particularly original. Review

This is a warm little film asking some fiery big questions about the nature of cinema and the human heart. At times little protracted and prosaic, but still well worth the ride. Review

The narrative arc is just too flat. There is no build-up. Review

Golino’s mature performance is Fuori‘s greatest asset. The actress has the sad eyes of Charlotte Rampling, and the eloquence of Sandra Hueller. Review

Police officer employs extreme intimidation tactics at work and also at home, in this honest, funny and enlightening drama from Cameroon. Review

Expect a conventional crime thriller with watered down political tones, and little to say about Egyptian politics and culture. Review

It Was Just an Accident is a serious and profound film lightened up by small moments of comic relief. Review

Deadly virus turns people into marble, in Julia Ducournau's stone-cold parable of love and abandonment. Review

The outcome is partly convincing. While the acting is spontaneous enough, the interactions lack chemistry, and the unimaginative cinematography fails the capture the spirit of the community. Review

Kleber Medonca Filho's crime drama about a dignified researcher on the run pays tribute to the films and the cinemas of yore, while also celebrating the director's native Recife, in Northeastern Brazil. Review

Japanese blend of murder mystery and child imagination allegory is cryptic and bizarre, dogged by elementary cinematography and wooden acting. Review

Peck’s new film, much like its predecessors, is a proudly hyperpolitical documentary. Bold, innovative and inspiring filmmaking. Review

Sebastian Lelio's feminist musical is so didactic, literalistic and clumsily executed that it's truly painful to watch. Review

Richard Linklater transports viewers back to the Paris and the Cannes of 1960, in his charming tribute to Jean-Luc Godard. Review

Young Muslim seeks to reconcile her homosexuality and her religion, in this ordinary coming-of-age drama from France. Review

Ari Aster's ambitious riff on American right and leftwing politics is extremely familiar and barely enlightening. Review

European whims are shattered into pieces, in Olivier Laxe's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing allegory of life on the edge. Review

French Riviera family struggles with mentally disabled daughter, in this honest and heartfelt yet mostly unmemorable drama. Review

Independent police investigator deep-dives into a police brutality case, in this thoughtful study of repression and impunity. Review