Raphael Abraham

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 10, 2026 5/5 At 195 minutes (plus interval), a film about an abused and abusive figure living through a gloomy period of Soviet oppression could easily have been a slog, but Khrzhanovsky constantly finds new ways to jolt you into rapt fascination. Go to Full Review Dau (2026) - - - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 8, 2026 Gibney’s film flies by but is ultimately both exhaustive and exhausting, a dire warning on the perils of unchecked wealth and power that plays more like a horror movie the longer it goes on. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 8, 2026 4/5 The movie grows soulful, with quivering strings on the soundtrack, the melancholy tropes of a downbeat Western and even the suggestion of fast-track redemption. Go to Full Review Wild Horse Nine (2026) 93% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 8, 2026 3/5 A headline draw is the presence of Robert Pattinson, who duly delivers with a darkly mesmerising performance as the host of the hit mid-2000s NBC show To Catch a Predator... Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Jun 4, 2026 2/5 The sticking plasters of innuendo and self-satire do work for a while and provide some chuckles, but eventually they wear as thin as Skeletor’s loincloth. Go to Full Review Masters of the Universe (2026) 67% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 20, 2026 4/5 Bitter Christmas is Almodóvar at his most acerbic, unsparing and apparently confessional, exposing for all to see the ugly human costs of making art. Go to Full Review Bitter Christmas (2026) 87% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 19, 2026 3/5 Here [Cristian Mungiu] invites us to look past the pretty surroundings to see the ugly xenophobia and intolerant liberalism that can blight secular society. First he nudges us, then he prods us in a film that leads us a little too much by the nose. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 18, 2026 4/5 What follows in the final scenes is lightly anticlimactic, but The Beloved remains an acute study of the delicate balancing acts of those two ensemble efforts: filmmaking and parenting. Go to Full Review The Beloved (2026) 84% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 15, 2026 5/5 ...All of a Sudden has a way of gradually eroding your cynicism and restoring your faith in work done with supreme loving care. Go to Full Review All of a Sudden (2026) 92% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 15, 2026 4/5 Fatherland may form a postwar trilogy of sorts with Ida and Cold War, but the contemporary parallels are all too easy to see in this requiem for lost ideals and lost loved ones. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 23, 2025 4/5 With no tricksiness, no amplification and no unnecessary embellishment, it is allowed to resonate quietly and linger in the mind and ears, with no false notes. Go to Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 19, 2025 4/5 Stewart turns the intensity back up to maximum and mostly to good effect, though at time the stylistic tics tip over into self-conscious student film territory. Go to Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 91% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 19, 2025 4/5 Yet even at its most irreverent — "Your film is a piece of shit," his fellow critics declare after the first screening — Linklater's mostly French-language, black-and-white homage remains deeply reverential. Go to Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 19, 2025 4/5 The beautiful princess may well have settled down with that handsome woodcutter at the edge of the forest, but until now we never saw what happened after she had a baby. Go to Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times May 16, 2025 2/5 What it boils down to is a big-screen amplification of a billion “WTF is going on?!” posts rather than any kind of coherent response to them. Go to Full Review Eddington (2025) 69% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Feb 14, 2025 2/5 As for Feige, whose name means cowardly in German, he will need to screw his courage and return with something bolder if the coming Phase Six of Marvel is truly going to offer a Brave New World.  Go to Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 4, 2024 3/5 Joker still has a trick up its sleeve — even a serious subtext. The best moment comes late on in an incendiary scene... Go to Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 3, 2024 3/5 The film gets better as it goes along. Moore in particular brings a welcome warmth to the screen as the empathetic Ingrid, bolstered by the gentle presence of John Turturro... Go to Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 3, 2024 5/5 It is the boldest and best film so far at this year’s Venice Film Festival: a life writ large on the screen that deserves such maximalist treatment. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -

Raphael Abraham Financial Times Sep 3, 2024 4/5 Many of us wondered whether the erotic thriller was even still viable in the moral minefield of 2024. Babygirl proves that the form may have matured, but it still has some moves. Go to Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% - -