Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

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

Young and dignified lawyer confronts Stalin's corrupt establishment, in Sergei Loznitsa's profound and sombre new film. Review

Franchise of eight films wraps up with an overbloated, tasteless, indigestible and toxic instalment. Review

Aesthetically astounding German drama seamlessly blends the visual and the tactile, just as it weaves together three families from different eras. Review

The Cape Verdean "Bob Marley" who died on the day he was about to record his first studio album becomes the subject of this simple and auspicious documentary. Review

Victims of domestic abuse seek protection in a women's shelter, in this warm and thoughtful, humanistic Portuguese drama. Review

Lesbian pornographer embarks on a road trip in search of inspiration, in this pointless and lame addition to the canon of identity movement cinema. Review

While interesting and relatable, this is a story told without flair, vigour and originality. Review

Ugly suburban landscapes and a cacophony of cars provide a strange type of serenity to these suburban dwellers, in this elementary Portuguese film. Review

As Flores is a simple and straightforward exercise on homemade anthropology. Cinema as a weapon for social liberation and personal liberation. A movie tiny in its execution, and significant in its purpose. Review

While aesthetically impressive, First Person Plural fails to rivet viewers. Review