Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

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

Nineteen-year-old influencer uses her cosmetically-enhanced body as a weapon for social ascension, in this palpable and visceral French drama. Review

Quentin Dupieux’s new creation succeeds as a high-octane exercise on metalanguage, yet it fails as a comedy. Review

A Syrian refugee living in Germany travels to France in order to trace the footsteps of his former torturer, in this convoluted blend of mystery and drama. Review

Finely crafted documentary rescues the work and the personal history of a pioneering however long-forgotten fashion-photographer-turned-horse-breeder from Brazil. Review

He explains that he set out to create something positive at which people can look and remember him after he’s gone. He’s partly successful. While humbling, this is hardly an uplifting film. Review

This very British hybrid of mockumentary and deep fake television is as juicy and plump as the vegetables portrayed, but also a little overgrown. Review

Palestine's most popular and inspirational leader (often compared to Mandela) becomes the topic of this insightful yet patchy documentary... Review

Despite a string of cliches and platitudes, Amy Winehouse's biopic is a thoroughly entertaining nostalgia-fest. Review

Star-studded, elegant prequel of 1976 classic pays tribute to several horror movies, but not without some clumsy twists and turns. Review

The problem is that there is very little chemistry between the characters. There are too many sudden, profound bondings and subplots in a relatively short period of time. Review

The sombre cinematography, combined with a concrete social topic, provides the movie with a touch of realism, almost social realism, even if some stiff lines and bathetic music score partly hamper these efforts. Review

Despite the interesting premise and the breathtaking locations, Shambhala is visually and narratively monotonous. Review

This is a documentary with a very specific focus: an album and its 20th anniversary. That’s the movie’s strength but also its weakness. Review

After shockingly dumping her husband-to-be at the altar, African woman starts a new life in Taiwan, in a movie with the visual panache of Wong Kar-Wai. Review

Motherly instincts and extreme violence collide to devastating results, in this Scandinoir prison drama from Denmark. Review

Developments are subtle and slow, however the film never overstays its relatively long duration of 120 minutes. A highly cryptic, jarring exuberant ending will stay with you for a long time. Review

Seven Veils is so concerned with creating a multithreaded narrative, and drawing metalinguistic parallels between fiction and reality that it forgets to raise pertinent questions about the topic that it chose to address. This is an entertaining movie to watch, however with nothing new to say to victims of sexual abuse. Review

Five Italian women living in a Catholic institution join forces in order to confront the establishment, in this extremely cheesy and poorly acted musical. Review

Extremely bleak and gruesome Austrian drama with a touch of Carl Dreyer and exec produced by Ulrich Seidl dissects an unhappily married woman as she slowly descends into madness. Review

Gael Garcia Bernal and Renate Reinsve star in this extremely lame and predictable sci-fi from Italy. Review

Mati Diop's new creation is a deeply poetic rumination on French colonialism; she once again uses the Atlantic Ocean as a dark and sombre watershed. Review