Savina Petkova

Savina Petkova Cineuropa Sep 23, 2026 Lemonade exemplifies the need for tenderness in British social-realism dramas today. Go to Full Review Lemonade (2026) - - - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage Sep 6, 2026 Like its predecessor, [it] shows history in the making by documenting fragments of its peoples’ lives, reflections, and struggles against the authoritarian state, but also exceeds the expectations of your regular observational documentary. Go to Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile (2026) 100% - -

Savina Petkova Little White Lies Jul 1, 2026 4/5 While the comedy is excellent (hyperbolic but vulnerable at its core), there is even more value in The Invite​'s remedial humour and a shared attempt to not only make the contradictions of hetero-monogamy more palatable, but pleasurable. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Savina Petkova Little White Lies Jun 18, 2026 5/5 Chalfant is a stellar lead, to say the least. Go to Full Review Familiar Touch (2024) 99% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage Jun 8, 2026 To call Ponderosa a strange movie doesn’t do it justice. Its enigmatic nature is less a riddle than an invitation to imagine societal structures anew. Go to Full Review Ponderosa (2026) 62% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 26, 2026 Instead of focusing on the characters’ anticipatory grief [...] Sachs structures the film around glimpses of joy and the promise of love. Go to Full Review The Man I Love (2026) 93% - -

Savina Petkova The Playlist May 24, 2026 B [Butterfly Jam] has one of the most wondrous deus ex machina moments in recent cinema, an instance of pure film magic that cannot be forced. Go to Full Review Butterfly Jam (2026) 46% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 24, 2026 There are films that make you believe art is worth making and films that convince you life is worth living. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden is both.. [H]is gentle touch sculpts a marvel of a film with a beating heart. Go to Full Review All of a Sudden (2026) 93% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 24, 2026 5/5 Koreeda’s attempts, though, to ground a film about AI companions in an obvious "nature/culture" metaphor end up lowering the stakes for Sheep in the Box a bit too much. Go to Full Review Sheep in the Box (2026) 43% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 24, 2026 6/10 Fjord works as an understated critique of the far left and the far right, of allowing too much and not allowing enough. [...] Mungiu’s script sways between the two extremes, asking the viewer to take a side. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 91% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage May 23, 2026 Coward sees Dhont adapting to period filmmaking while maintaining what he does best as a writer-director: slice open the emotional enclosure in which his characters try to hide. Go to Full Review Coward (2026) 95% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage May 21, 2026 More than a well-crafted thriller, Victorian Psycho proves a rousing comedy, its trio of great actors never missing the mark with a stoic line delivery. Go to Full Review Victorian Psycho (2026) 82% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage May 18, 2026 Harari tiptoes around any question of transness, refusing to allow a single mention of it to the very end, in a gesture that could easily be construed as anti-trans. Go to Full Review The Unknown (2026) 69% - -

Savina Petkova Cineuropa May 18, 2026 Rivilis’s perspective feels fresh and decisively anti-nostalgic. The film lives and breathes on its own, untethered from its predecessors. Go to Full Review I'll Be Gone in June (2026) 80% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 18, 2026 Zbigniew Preisner's [score] is not enough to transform the most prosaic shots and predictable narrative turns into the sophisticated film it claims to be. Go to Full Review Parallel Tales (2026) 19% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage May 16, 2026 For all its measuredness, Gentle Monster is a merciless film, not so much to the viewers but its titular character. Go to Full Review Gentle Monster (2026) 63% - -

Savina Petkova Hammer to Nail May 15, 2026 "A stylized, intellectually rigorous engagement with European history in the aftermath of World War II." Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 91% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage Feb 16, 2026 Mouse enacts the sore truth that everyone’s grief is different, and that is perhaps the most loving gesture extended by these filmmakers: to loosen that consoling embrace, allowing another more room to breathe through the tears. Go to Full Review Mouse (2026) 100% - -

Savina Petkova Cineuropa Sep 14, 2025 "A rare, nuanced look at grief and growing up." Go to Full Review Forastera (2025) 90% - -

Savina Petkova The Film Stage Sep 8, 2025 A perceptive take on men’s mental health––not through struggles, but a delightful mix of genre, meta-texuality, and positive affirmation masked as a Beatles song. Go to Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 90% - -