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…

In the giallo genre, surprisingly untouched by it at my age, I chose Dario Argento's half-naked whore Tenebrae, and I must admit that armed with theoretical knowledge, I experienced mild disappointment. The disco-rock synthesizers from the Goblins are as genius in their apparent incongruity as those by Carpenter, and…

The smoldering remains of Jeoffrey have barely been swept onto the dustpan when passion ignites for Nicolas's gun at his waist. To acknowledge, to utilize, to theatrically mourn their deaths. This is a process where men serve as rungs of the ladder that the chocolate business's marquise (personally, I would see her…

Demands aside, I wanted as much time as possible with this trio of morons and I got a nostalgic 130-minute trip through a beautiful landscape without any unnecessary dangerous antics, but a lot of great verbal gags and the glum chemistry of people who have travelled the world together and made every joke ten times…

A potentially entertaining premise drowned in the ultra-serious and very shallow sauce of the story of a woman who finds the will to live. Paralysis caused by grief is replaced by drug-induced paralysis and a new will to survive arises in her. All of this in a depictive rendering with the depth of cheesy motivational…

Empty sentences, Statham's bald head, Alba's traditionally not quite bald appearance, and the bare fact that Gansel deserves a few hits with a stick (particularly for the Thai segment evoking the azure horror of Into the Blue). When the world's most romantic mechanic begins to wander wildly through attractive…