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Snow White - The Film Verdict

1 month ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

VERDICT: Disney’s umpteenth live-action remake of an animated classic turns out to be another bad apple.
The Alto Knights

1 month ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

The Alto Knights shows and tells us nothing that we haven’t already seen in a million mob movies, as childhood friends Frank Costello and Vito Genovese become arch-rivals, one working within the system and flirting with legitimacy while the other remains a hothead and a loose cannon. The fact that both Costello and Genovese are played as adults by Robert De Niro is the film’s biggest gamble, but the payoff is underwhelming.
Black Bag - The Film Verdict

1 month ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

The who’s-zooming-who plot can be a difficult one when it comes to maintaining audience engagement; pull the rug out too many times, and viewers will check out until the final minute, when everything is finally explained. It’s a testament to David Koepp’s screenplay that it tosses out just enough red herrings and unspoken motivations to maintain a balance of enigma and empathy. The spy spouses are George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett).
Last Breath - The Film Verdict

1 month ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

Mark Cassar / Focus Features VERDICT: Director Alex Parkinson remakes his own deep-sea doc as a narrative feature but gets lost in the shallows.
Kontinental '25 - The Film Verdict

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

VERDICT: Punky Romanian auteur Radu Jude softens his usual bitingly satirical approach with his latest Berlinale prize-winner, a serious-minded but minor-key social drama about gentrification and bourgeois liberal guilt.
Timestamp - The Film Verdict

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

VERDICT: Filmed in schools all across war-torn Ukraine, director Kateryna Gornostai's timely ensemble portrait of youthful hope and courage is the only documentary screening in the main Berlin competition this year.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

VERDICT: Starring Rose Byrne on revelatory form, Mary Bronstein's high-energy dark comedy takes a deep dive into the nightmarish pressures and surreal horrors of motherhood.
What Marielle Knows

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

What Marielle Knows begins with an attention-grabbing slow-motion close-up of a pre-teen schoolgirl being slapped in the face. This is Marielle (Laeni Geiseler), and the blow soon proves to have far-reaching consequences.
Islands - The Film Verdict

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

German writer-director Jan-Ole Gerster scored a modest sleeper hit with his prize-wining debut feature Oh Boy (2012), aka A Coffee in Berlin, and picked up critical plaudits for his second, Lara (2019). Working for the first time with a largely British cast, and mostly English-language dialogue, his third has more mainstream crossover potential than either of its predecessors, even if the twisty screenplay ultimately fails to deliver the full-blooded genre pay-off it initially seems to promise.
Köln 75 - The Film Verdict

2 months ago | thefilmverdict.com | Stephen Dalton

VERDICT: Director Ido Fluk's playful period biopic celebrates the remarkable true story of the teenage German girl who made a landmark jazz concert happen against impossible odds. The real Jarrett declined to co-operate on Köln 75, denying the film-makers use of his music.