Edinburgh 2014: ‘We’ll Never Have Paris’ review
★★☆☆☆ Best known as the one of the lovable nerds around which CBS’s world-dominating The Big Bang Theory revolves, Simon Helberg has now moved...
Film Reviews & More
Most Recent. In Edinburgh.
2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether it be by city, country...
1 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: End of Sentence review
★★★☆☆ The strained relationship between a father and his son is tenderly observed in End of Sentence, the debut feature film from Elfar Adalsteins....
29 June 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Schemers review
★★★☆☆ Filmed in and around Scotland’s fourth largest city Dundee, Schemers – receiving its World Premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival –...
Edinburgh
Edinburgh 2014: Shorts strand review
★★★★★ Edinburgh Film Festival is renowned for showcasing the best new feature filmmaking talent and hosting premieres of new work by established directors, but...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘The Owners’ review
★★★☆☆ To watch Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s The Owners (2014) is to be struck by confusion. A seemingly tragic premise – three siblings (including an epileptic...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘To Kill a Man’ review
★★★★☆ The fourth feature from director Alejandro Fernández Almendras, To Kill a Man (2014) opens with a wide shot of a dense forest, the...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Stations of the Cross’ review
★★★★☆ Winner of the Student Critics Jury Award at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, German director Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg, 2014)...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Uncertain Terms’ review
★★★★☆ Nathan Silver has been gradually nurturing a reputation as a director with a deft eye for detail and an astonishing ability for documenting...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Snowpiercer’ review
★★★★★ A stunning, visionary example of dystopian science fiction cinema at its very best, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) – based in...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Letters from the South’ review
★★★★☆ Six directors presenting six separate encounters from four Southeast Asian countries, Letters from the South (2013) explores the fluid relationship between the Chinese...
