2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1009+ words) Joshua Polanski is a freelance film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to In Review Online, he contributes to The Rapidian, Klassiki Journal, Rue Morgue, Bay Area Reporter, and Offscreen, among other places. His interests include the technical…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (729+ words) The H@llow Man — Kamel Laaridhi [Venice ’26 Review] In Review Online “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.” So begins Kamel Laaridhi’s debut feature, The H@llow Man, with a quote from Italian Marxist…...

4+ day, 30+ min ago   (579+ words) Lovers in the Blue Night — Anuparna Roy [Venice ’26 Review] inreviewonline.com We, in the modern world, are more connected to one another than ever before, and increasingly so. But are we also lonelier than ever? In Anuparna Roy’s Lovers in…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (776+ words) Conversation with the Sea — Muayad Alayan [Venice ’26 Review] inreviewonline.com According to the UN, nearly 1,000 Palestinians currently living in Jerusalem face eviction at the hands of the Israeli government. Of those permitted housing, less than 10% are Palestinian, despite the fact…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (722+ words) Arrested Memory — SABU [Venice ’26 Review] inreviewonline.com The mononymic Japanese director SABU, despite 30 years of steady work in the offbeat genre film mines, has never broken through in the West in the way his near-contemporaries Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kiyoshi…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (758+ words) Oasis — Jannis Lanz [Venice ’26 Review] inreviewonline.com Victims of bullying rarely find solace in the solutions of the school administrations that are meant to protect them and will often experience punishment for any retaliation that far exceeds the penalties levied…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (10+ words) Bucking Fastard — Werner Herzog [Venice ’26 Review] In Review Online...