8/10. If someone had told me five years ago that I’d go to the cinema to see a film about the election of a new Pope rather than a comic-book movie, I would have laughed at them, but, world wonder, it's true. Conclave is an unexpectedly gripping, atmospheric and compelling film set in the Vatican where isolated…

7/10. A decent and realistic teacher psycho drama from Germany. The protagonist is a new teacher who has just started at a new school, but soon starts stealing and becomes a target. She had a hidden camera, she knows who the culprit is! A prime example of a man wanting to get justice and solve a fairly straightforward…

A charming Egyptologist on the trail of ancient secrets and dangerous mysteries. A synopsis where you can only trust the conjunction, and Franklin J. Schaffner didn’t direct the film; he embalmed it, and not even the romantic subplot with Ahmed Dracula can save it (as one critic aptly noted, Langella had the charm of…

The psychological horror soon turns surreal, with the imprisoned psychopath murdering through others. He uses dreams and hypnosis to do this. Danny may be a good guy, but he's a moron, so when he spots Laura, the Sleeping Beauty, in the hospital and hears that she's about to become an experimental subject, he decides…

There's a monster killing in the city, and the first massacres convinced me that a xenomorph had jumped in. Too bad they showed its form afterwards. It had a leaky tongue instead of a second set of jaws, but otherwise the inspiration, including the slime, was clear, and I quite like it. Also, there's one nice…

For some, goats and pitchforks evoke a farm, while for others, this sharp slasher by Joseph Zito rightfully earns its status as a cult classic. Richard Einhorn's disturbing music, solid gore during explicit murders, a masked killer with stabbing weapons and flair, the sheriff’s deputy with a scrawny chest and Cillian…

Devils wielding magic and organizing video conferences with headquarters as part of progress can only manage the downfall of a sinful bunch with good PR if they have a bit of luck and wear the costume of the goblin crew from the tower in Cirith Ungol? Marek Najbrt couldn't win this battle with the script, so he at…

In the hours of darkness, there is too much evil on the marshes, and it is the strongest. Holmes's tactical "absence," the perpetrator, and the motive (behind everything, look for a woman, but first determine if it’s about money) are so notoriously known that it was only a matter of what Brian Mills's adaptation would…

It suggested a reflection that there is much more authenticity in stunt work than in acting, but ultimately, it resulted in a rather disjointed compilation of various functioning scenes that transports the viewer to a parallel universe where Rob Zombie runs out of inspiration and Chinatown ends with a happy ending.…

A truly Wild West of lynch mobs, judges who don’t shy away from hanging, and criminals who resist with the prospect of hemp around their necks. From the very first scene, Ted Post kicks into high gear; the hanging moments are quite unsettling, and the female factor is kept to a tolerable minimum. This is the first…