Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama. Review

Italian filmmaker and French street artist join forces in order to create an exuberant short film blending urban textures and techniques. Review

Jew-hating supremacist is the focus of this trivial American bang-bang with disingenuous political undertones. Review

WW1 drama about self-harmers and the Spanish flu is so clumsily staged that it's barely watchable. Review

Feuding teens see their paths collide more than once, in this very long and (mostly) accomplished French drama. Review

The vicissitudes of love unite, excite and haunt three female friends, in this simple and effective, Truffaut-esque drama. Review

Mother of three boys is hellbent on having a daughter, in this profound real-life drama from Italy. Review

There is absolutely nothing risqué, audacious or even innovative. Review

John Lennon and Yoko Ono become American conveyors of change during the early 1970s, in this superbly assembled documentary. Review

The artistic choice to remain entirely observational compromises the film’s ability to educate an d energise the international community. Instead, the documentary feels like a lonely lament, a scream in the dark following the tragic realisation that democracy is but a short-lived dream. Review

Despite a hypnotic performance by deliciously insane and deviant Biscayart, a few good tunes and dance acts, Kill The Jockey isn’t a masterpiece. Review

Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas engage in a fierce battle for the spotlight, in Pablo Larrain's uneven biopic of the tragic diva. Review

Errol Morris's doc about Trump's family separation policy focuses on the self-proclaimed saviours, while never hearing the countless victims. Review

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder star in Tim Burton's colourful and disjointed sequel to 1988's Beetlejuice. Review

The director of extraordinary religion drama Apostasy returns with a completely different film: an English folk horror that's visually exuberant and yet fails to engage and scare. Review

Ordinary people behave badly, in this collection of mostly cold and banal short stories. Review

This is an effective, high-octane absurdist comedy that would have benefitted from a longer runtime. Review

A jarring, minimalistic score helps to sustain a sense of tension and imprisonment throughout the entire 21 minutes of this short film. Review

Very sad disease kills plantation labourers in Africa, in this extremely sombre allegory of Portuguese colonialism. Review

A story infused with tenderness and optimism, and wrapping up with a small yet potent gesture of emancipation. A movie worth giving a chance! Review

Two young Moroccans experience homosexual love and prostitution, in this delicate tale of oppression and liberation. Review

Despite the interesting premise, Nothing in its Place lacks vim and vigour. Review

The outcome is a warm and intimate love letter to an artist little known to younger audiences. Review

Momoko’s aspirations are deeply rooted in Japan’s strict gender roles. It would probably take a female to director to uproot those orthodoxies, yet those professionals are few and far between. The Japanese film industry remains just as gendered as the rest of the society. Review