Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

2017 | Comedy

Hailed as "film of the year", this Franco-British comedy about the controversial Soviet leader is in reality teeming with prejudices and schadenfreude.

2017 | Horror

There are some good scares. The problem is that the plot becomes too ambitious and eventually goes entirely off-rail.

2017 | Drama

Lelio created a film that’s both realistic and respectful of transsexual women.

2017 | Drama

An energetic and yet painful reminder of the Aids crisis of the 1980s/1990s and the activism that it triggered...

2018

The elaborate narrative gimmicks ultimately feel a little pointless...

2017 | Drama | Horror | Suspense | Crime

Meyers does not provide answers. Instead he exposes the fragmented pieces of a very disjointed mind.

2017 | Fantasy | Drama | Horror

Outstanding Brazilian horror blends the tender with the bizarre, in a very original story about motherhood, pregnancy and reclusion from society.

2017 | Drama

Superb Zambian fiction movie about witchcraft is guaranteed to make you both laugh and cry...

2016 | Drama | Music | Documentary

Follows the British rock band Wolf Alice on the road. And that's pretty much it.

2017 | Suspense

Elgian duo create a colourful and plush tribute to the sexploitation genre, set somewhere in the sunny Mediterranean...

2016 | Drama

A sobering and harrowing film about the plight of Burmese immigrants living and working in Thailand...

2014 | History | War

Superb Estonian film uses innovative tableaux vivants technique in order to portray the Stalin's forced removal of 40,000 Estonians to Siberia in 1941...

2017 | Documentary

Jaw-dropping documentary entirely filmed from dashcams on Russian cars provides a shocking, bleak and despondent portrait of the largest country in the world...

2015 | Documentary

Intimate doc takes a look at the fiery personal and professional relationship living legends of tango María Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes...

2017 | Drama | History

Stephen Frears once again offers you the opportunity to look at a British monarch in the eyes, and what you will see is refreshingly human and candid...

2016 | Documentary

American filmmaker uses feral rodents as a gauge of social segregation in Baltimore, in very innovative doc also not without flaws...

2017 | Documentary

Insightful and engaging, but it also slips into clichés and neglects urgent topics...

2017 | Horror | Suspense

A hybrid of horror and bank heist starring James Franco; it does work on some levels, but it eventually loses the plot...

2017 | Action | Suspense

A shining example of cinema as a fearmongering tool, and the last thing you need to watch right now...

2017 | Horror | Suspense

A twisted feminist movie revisiting the past and our notions of memory, but perhaps it would work better as a TV series...

2016 | Drama | Comedy

A film about reconciliation of dysfunctional families and making amends with past, highly recommended!

2017 | Action | Comedy | Crime

A perfectly-executed and pleasant comedy about clumsy and kind-hearted criminals carrying out a heist, but it lacks a certain je-ne-sais-quoi...

2017 | Drama | History | Suspense | Crime

Kathryn Bigelow delivers an enrapturing and harrowing portrayal of police impunity and racism in the US during the riots of the 1960s...

2016 | Documentary

Outstanding doc raises urgent economic, sociological and philosophical questions...