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Saw it a few weeks back. Not a masterpiece, it feels the scenario leaves some juice in the lemon in the 3rd act, but still, I very much enjoyed seeing a well crafted non-comedic American cop and robber movie in theater. It's a type of movie that basically almost disappeared in the US with the...

I did not notice there was a post for this. It actually released in a arthouse theater near me a few months back. I have seen two of the previous three films by that director. I don't remember what Kaili Blues was about, but it's is mostly deambulations filmed in very long takes first in...

Just watched the 2nd season. It's a bit clumsy at times, but it pulls a very rare type of ending. It's a relatively short affair (six 1 hour episodes), so I would say it's worth it.

I don't think it's worth creating a new thread about it, but for reference here is the Top 20 of 2025 as voted by 5 friends of mine and myself. Note that it's based on the release schedule in Switzerland, so some films have been in last year's Academy Awards (like the winner) and some films that...

Now I did! The review posted above is probably by someone who did not see the film. You have a frame story, which is a film director at a table facing the camera that has a tablet on which he runs an AI. The idea is that he made a movie about Dracula that did not screen test well, so he is...

Saw this at a film festival. It's a weird kind of queer erotic horror sci-fi thriller comedy or something. It's pretty light on the erotic part though. Can't be blamed to lack originality and the cast is good, which is not a given with this type of very indie features. Is it a masterpiece? No...

It's good but I could not shake the Temu Malick feeling. The adaptation is also odd. It adapts a 100 pages novella and removes key elements in it that seemingly changes the story for one more abstract and meditative.

I was like "WTF! Yuen Woo-Ping???" and yeah, the guy is 80. Nicolas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-Fai (I would have preferred Chiu-Wai but still) and Jet Li! That's some old school cast also.

Unrelated to the marvelous UK comedy of 2011 also called The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in auto-fictional versions of themselves doing a gastronomy tour while bantering.

It's better than the first because it does not suffer from an hour of exposition, the plot is somewhat original for a zombie movie (while the first film was not) and the film making is solid instead of being wacky. In the end it's... ok I guess?

Tropa de Elite and its sequel also.

Fun fact: the hairy leg articles were a real thing.

To make things clear, it's one of those "high concept" movie. The trial lasts 90 minutes and we follow it in real time, so, what you get visually are Pratt tied to a chair, Fergusson on a screen, a bunch of UI renders for file management and then archive or live footage from smart phones...

Saw it! Solid film but a bit of a strange one. I guess the tropes you could expect in this type of movie are not there. It's not about the talented but lazy actor, it's not about finding you passion, it's not about reaching fame through hard work, it's not a film about the rivalry between two...

Technically, it's kind of a Troy sequel. The events take place just after the Trojan war.