Filmrecensies van Victor Fraga

Garcia delivers a quietly devastating performance. Recensie

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

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

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. Recensie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Recensie

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. Recensie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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