Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

Starts out as a complex and moving psychological drama, but then slips into action and slasher clichés...

Every single frame in Ága is an art piece in itself.

Imhoof cleverly sows together old letters and photos of Giovanna with dramatic images of EU ships rescuing refugees from overcrowded makeshift boats...

Reveals the details of a process so absurd that it’s akin to Kafka’s eponymous novel, which is mentioned the film.

Visually exquisite and sophisticated, despite a very commonplace script...

Linn da Quebrada is unabashedly confrontational, yet she’s tender and affectionate.

Audacious doc registers the rebel struggle against the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila...

Romanian drama exposes an American society and immigration system infested with patriotism and corruption.

Profoundly disturbing and contains very current messages...

Avoids cliches, is psychologically multilayered and surprisingly moving...

The social realism in poverty-stricken Southern Italy and the shaky handheld camera will ring bells with fans of Rossellini and De Sica.

Examines faith and devotion as the cure for drug addiction in a profoundly humanistic film, while also avoiding provocative statements...

Audacious German film transposes Holoucast novel from 1942 onto modern Marseilles; the outcome is odd and yet bewitching...

Has a disjointed script. Far more seriously, it lacks naughtiness. It lacks humour. There’s no zest, there’s no jest.

A conventional biopic with an elegant photography and plenty of treats for fans of Russian literature, but nothing beyond this.

Everything is awkwardly harmonic.

Blend of Western and comedy starring Robert Pattinson attempts to be a feminist movie, but the outcome is a little awkward...

American indie sci-fi about time travel and a deadly virus that wipes out humanity is visually and narratively compelling enough to keep you hooked throughout...

Unconventional rebels resist a military junta, in an outlandish allegory of the country's chaotic political landscape...

The biopic of Tonya Harding is a finely acted and well-crafted piece of filmmaking attempting to celebrate and redeem the controversial figure skater...

All in all, this is a movie fun enough to watch, but not to be taken very seriously...

Austrian movie with taste of Haneke and Polanski has all the ingredients of a good suspense.

Canadian LGBT romance is mostly predictable, but it also caters effectively for a very specialised audience...

Firth does a good job is his delivery of the inept sailor and troubled male. But nothing beyond that.