5.5/10. Original and bizarre, but also weird and rather boring. Visually the film has quite a TV feel to it, without any bright colours, it's got an arty feel to it, and even though there are five sub-genres tagged, Drama dominates 90% of the time. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson both play their parts and the facial…

7/10. Tony Jaa like in the good old days! A simple, but enjoyable martial arts romp that doesn't fool around and serves fans choreographed and fierce fights, just the way we like them. The story is really basic, Tony's family is killed and he intends to take revenge while protecting a little girl, the daughter of one…

Some doors should remain closed, especially if they are red. My sixth encounter with Joko Anwar, I’d already given up on him, but at the urging of a friend I gave this earlier piece of him a chance. Yeah it's full of references, as the synopsis says. During the credits, the Mission: Impossible franchise immediately…

5.5/10. An average French action film, with the director returning after an almost ten-year hiatus, and it's obvious that he slept through the time, because the action really feels like a decade ago, especially in the fights, which lack toughness, intensity and effectiveness. The protagonist played by Roschdy Zem is…

5/10. Quite a disappointment for me. I was expecting a deranged lawyer committing murder and in the meantime diverting from a trial, and I got a sort of comedy gangster drama without trials and murders, something I didn't quite order. With a short running time of 30 minutes per episode, it thankfully goes by fairly…

Detective McDonagh’s back hurts, and besides analgesics, cocaine, crack, weed, and heroin, he has one more method for easing the pain. His own penis in very close contact with the steel-cold barrel of a .44 Magnum. Abel Ferrara’s film, allegedly untouched by Herzog, is given its own unique poetic touch and a flair of…

"Why are you doing this?" - "Why not?" The excuses of that murderous group seem to be getting more and more childish. The Strangers have returned after a decade (as if it were yesterday), and their victims again remind us of the beautiful past. Just consider it. The terrified son reports the murder of his uncle and…

Doctor Henry Walton Jones Junior, please come back... A film based on a video game always has a heavy ball and chain attached, and Roar Uthaug goes straight into oblivion with it. I don’t care about “a greater number of establishing shots and larger frames where close-ups on details tend to sharpen the flow of…

"When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time." The black-and-white prison passages from American History X, with a shaky camera and in color. Shades of fear, helplessness, determination, and hope, which, when mixed with the attributes of family and loyalty, give you a chance to survive…

One perspective suggests that Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury should have stayed behind those damn padded walls in Inside. The not-so-convincing buildup of tension devolves into torture porn, where, on one hand, a "Jackson-esque" tracheotomy is performed on the wrong side of the neck, and on the other, brutal…