Spoilers/History – The unexpected gift in the form of a director's cut raises the biggest question: are three and a half hours enough for a comprehensive look? Not even close. At least not for something with the gigantic scope that David Scarpa's screenplay was seeking. Ridley Scott thus faces the traditional drawback…

In the context of electing a new pope, Conclave raises a number of burning issues, including those that involve the situation at the highest levels of the Catholic Church, such as power manipulation, conservatism vs. progressivism in the perception of multiculturalism, and gender inequality, as well as migration and…

The underworld of Nice, France, skirmishes between Eastern European mafias and a family drama that cannot turn out well. A solid directorial debut. It takes a while to get used to the coarse main characters, who do not have any likable qualities. Not even the estranged brothers’ search for a way back to each other is…

It’s fun to study the character played by Isabelle Huppert, as the actress imbues her with specific outlines of European frankness and French sensibility, which nicely contrasts with the Japanese aloofness and communication code of ethics. Despite its likable authenticity, the film is not entertaining in some of its…

A thriller with a poorly thought-out screenplay, wobbly dramaturgy without a feel for the seriousness of the subject and flawed definition of the main male character. Clumsily thrown together with genre ingredients like something from a filmmaker who has either never seen a genre film on a similar topic or didn’t…

An atmospheric, suffocating and realistic war movie that makes do with a simple, yet original idea, thanks to the excellently built tension. It may be a few minutes too talky and tone deaf in the middle, but the beginning and end compensate perfectly and for such a straightforward and simple thing, it's more than…

An inoffensive action ride, featuring an outrageous amount of completely random situations piled on top of each other in one night, until it looks like they were making it up as they went along and got high. The result is a passable film full of A-list actors that entertains for a given moment, but I probably won't…

Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg are A-listers who have far better films and can work in A-list movies. 2 Guns is not one of them and although I'm not extremely disappointed I had higher expectations. Starting out as a film about two bad guys with a dream to rob a bank, it builds into a nice chase between all sorts…

The film begins as kidnap torture, continues as a wannabe successor to Cube, and ends as a wtf affair that perhaps even the critics didn't get. The beginning is promising and the first half has also enough drive, but the problem arises in the second half, which more or less flounders in place, heading towards the…

Five people around whom several murders happen at the same time, and world wonder, even though the idea is nonsensical from the sound of it, it is executed very well and the style of telling things each time from a different point of view until the final picture of the whole event is put together results in an…