Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

Sombre and elegiac Kazakh drama observes the shocking repercussions of modern-day slavery, and unbridled sadism. Review

Claustrophobic spider horror keeps viewers on the edge of their seat, as flesh-eating arachnids terrify a suburban council block in France. Review

Luc Besson's fanciful and bizarre allegory of animal love and crossdressing is resolutely barking mad. Review

Argentinean horror offers a "rotten" twist on the well-worn zombie genre, in a movie as mangled and gruelling as the victims portrayed. Review

Coralie Fargeat's deliciously bonkers body horror is a grotesque, groovy and hilarious riff on sexism, ageism, and the absurd beauty standards forced upon women. Review

The Most Precious of Cargoes boasts a message of hope and resilience, and an ending that’s both beautiful and disturbing, if a little muddled. Review

The movie is lifted by a heart-stopping soundtrack, which includes Price’s Nothing Compares to You and The Cure’s A Forest, ensuring some moments of emotional rapture. These are not enough to justify the epic duration of a largely unimaginative story. Review

New York pole dancer marries the spoiled child of a Russian millionaire, in Sean Baker's high-octane class struggle comedy. Review

Miguel Gomes's new film has the aesthetic ambitions and also some topical similarities with his masterpiece Taboo, yet the soporific travelogue of Asia slips into artistic banality. Review

Fugitive finds shelter inside one of Brazil's pervasive sex hotels, in Karim Ainouz's colourful but tepid psychosexual thriller. Review

Chiara Mastroianni in incorporates her late, famous father into her life (moustache, fedora hat et al) - in Christophe Honore's sweet but unremarkable piece of autofiction. Review

Paolo Sorrentino's new drama is an ambitious tribute to his native Naples and to gorgeous nymphets: a pompous, verbose and superficial comment on "beauty". Review

David Cronenberg revisits familiar themes such as body mutilation and morbid sexual attraction in his new sci-fi horror, a very personal movie with significant religious elements. Review

Biopic of misanthropic Russian writer is dissonant with the self-righteous, futile and unpleasant subject portrayed; plus it barely feels Russian. Review

Lula is a romanticised documentary, or an activist film. Stone’s sympathy and allegiance clearly lies with his subject. He is a brave and well-intentioned helmer and interviewer, but also a little shallow, not too different from countryman Sean Penn. Review

Jia Zhangke's latest portrait of the China is profound, laborious and meditative, dotted with snippets of joy, and perhaps his most difficult film to date. Review

Fiery trans gangster musical is fuelled by explosive Mexican soap opera devices; the outcome is guaranteed to blow you away. Review

The daughter of powerful sports betting lord investigates her father mysterious demise, in this at times inscrutable docufiction from Argentina. Review

The Girl with the Needle isn’t a watershed in the history of film. It lacks the surrealist magnificence of Eraserhead, and punch-in-the-face factor of The Devil’s Bath. But it will still enrapture and shock you. Review

Yorgos Lanthimos's eerie-silly display of altruism feels like a David Lynch film remade by Peter Greenaway. Review

Not even Richard Gere, Jacob Elodi and Uma Thurman rescue Paul Schrader's unreliable memory drama from utter boredom. Review

Solemn and austere drama explores the dark machinations of homophobia in rural Romania, with a familiar yet jarring story bursting with subtleties. Review

Andrea Arnold's ultra-British blend of social realism and magical realism is uneven yet fascinating to watch. Review

Ye insistently seeks to craft a documentary feel in a story that’s almost entirely scripted. He inserts a high dose of casualness, a variety of textures and media, and other devices associated with traditional documentary practice into his film. But the outcome is often messy. Review