And the award for the worst 3D CGI of 2024 goes to... Seriously, whoever approved those hideous monster designs should never work in anime again. The creatures in the dungeon scenes and that chaotic forest chase in the last two episodes were so bad I was tempted to give the show a lower rating. It was awful,…

Another version of the subject of an isolated community (again on an island) whose residents begin to realise that something is not quite right with their “perfect life”. The discovery of one’s own sexuality after getting off the daily inhibitory “medicine” is likable, and the feelings between the characters are…

“Thanks, Costa. Thanks for another film in which someone is dying of cancer. You have surpassed all others, with several patients dying at once. Thanks for the tons of enriching dialogue with them involving the film’s protagonist, a renowned author/philosopher with a nascent brain tumor. And thanks for those few…

No fearful symmetry. Will we first be served meatloaf, a sweaty thigh, frail autistic lamb, or a piece of stepfather’s pig? Given the skills of the hungry kitty, which is better at smashing phones calling 911 than hunting, we can’t expect any surprises from the menu. It’s probably clear that if Briana Evigan had been…

A minimalist social drama that follows the everyday life of a young Portuguese woman with no hobbies, friends or kindred spirits, doing shift work at a warehouse in Scotland. Sorting goods on shelves, cooking, having conversations with her colleagues at work and in the employee dormitory. At first glance, On Falling…

“If you don’t kill me right now…it’ll be the last mistake you ever make.” In the same year, the Bad becomes the Good, the Ugly Mexican is played by someone else, the name of the cemetery is Freedom, and the tombstone reads Justice. The fact that the Bad will go down hasn’t changed. The director’s cut may be a bit too…

A straight cop, Serpico, fighting against crooked individuals and a distorted system. This is the kind of whistleblowing where someone standing against you would also like to blow, but into the smoke rising from the barrel. The one-third of the film dedicated to exposition brilliantly focuses on sketching the profile…

A Polish Con Air, in which Cage couldn’t appear in a white tank top because it would disrupt the moral depravity and grim tone. While it has competitive parameters, the unrestrained content fragmentation and questions about the plot's logic constantly dull the experience.

When one thinks of Marseille, two things come to mind: Olympique and heroin. For fans of French crime films, not necessarily in that order. Occasionally, there’s a lamenting struggle where Dujardin's judge applies not only tenacity but also a disarming smile while cutting off tentacles, and Lellouche's octopus head…

Colleagues and a botox-preserved ex-wife are reminiscing about how he was the most beautiful, the most talented, the funniest—simply divine—and in the next breath, they embark on a lamenting “what if” line. What if he hadn’t posed naked with only his private parts covered for Cosmopolitan, or what if he had played in…