Arguable talents rated 8 or higher - but aren't they overrated? okay.
I can't help but feel bemused when these movies get very high ratings from people who allegedly "understood the language" or "got into such heavy subject matters."
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- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJonah HillMargot RobbieBased on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.We're not amused, said Mr. Medoff, by the boredom, the redundancy, the vulgarity, and scarcity of form & content
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.Ridiculous and appalling. The director, full of himself, merely massages here his own ego.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.Pseudocriticism and fake social denunciation. Poor imitation of Hollywood-style thrillers
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.Supposedly a remake of 1951 sci-fi ¨classic.¨ In fact a letdown. Phony-looking, disgusting, instant junk.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoKim Sang-kyungKim Roe-haIn a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.Korean style Police Academy with an unkempt cop, whose investigation simply gets lost in blind alleys.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsDavid ByrneBernie WorrellAlex WeirConsidered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.As you'll probably guess, I hate this group. Yet , as incredible as it seems, dude, fans & critics love them. Music is highly unoriginal, man! It's rather a pop rehash whose Scottish front man has as much charisma as any face in the rock crowd. I do recommend, however, the following six rockumentaries: (i) Whats Happening, The Beatles in the United States; (ii) The T. A. M. I. Show; (iii) Get Back; (iv) The Kids Are Alright; (v) Gimme Shelter; (vi) Woodstock. As to director Demme, can he be the same man who directed The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia , Rachel Getting Married (2008) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004)?
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsPeter FalkFred DraperAlthough wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.Some of Cassavetes movies are fine examples of improvisation, but this is quite removed from quality drama. It still contains his trademarks:- overacting, formless overlong scenes, and sloppy camerawork.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYûzô KayamaTsutomu YamazakiIn 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.Long and uninvolving. This tale of a doctor who cares for the poor feels nothing like the best comic strips of "Rex Morgan, M.D."
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaChikage AwashimaA Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.It's been a long time since I used to sign on for nine-plus hours of anti-war war horses. Director Kobayashi made 2 classics, though, Harakiri and Rebellion.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.Ridley Scott was severely missed. Franchises also need talent. What made the first movie very effective was the shadowy nature of the aliens rather than special effects
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWil WheatonRiver PhoenixCorey FeldmanA writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.Corny & cheesy
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.This is not Twin Peaks. It is totally different: the ambiance, the way the characters are portrayed, the dialog, the action; everything is different. Most of the action takes place outside Twin Peaks. This is a collage imagery that makes no sense.
- CreatorPaul T. ScheuringStarsDominic PurcellWentworth MillerAmaury NolascoA structural engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence by breaking themselves out from the inside.The protagonist goes to jail in order to rescue his falsely accused brother from a death sentence by breaking themselves out from the inside. Stick to Bresson's ¨A man escaped¨
- DirectorRudi GoldmanStarsRobert GuillaumeSherman HemsleyRhetta HughesIn the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people.In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie, a preacher, shakes things up and brings freedom to his people.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta ChramostováJana StehnováSet in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.Boring, grotesque monologue by a sick mind that exposes his morbidity
- StarsMichael GambonPatrick MalahideJoanne WhalleyTormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.Plotless 'musical' with unbearably mediocre music
- CreatorDavid FarrStarsTom HiddlestonHugh LaurieElizabeth DebickiThe night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.Unbearable nonsense. Unrealistic British baddies. Unbelievable casting.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.Tarkovsky obliges you to go into his movies with plenty of patience, but even if you had the attention span for Solaris, you may struggle a lot here.
- StarsLúcia AlvesMaria AlvesSônia ClaraA simple and generous man is a prospector and finds a valuable diamond, which is stolen by the most powerful and unscrupulous man in the region, who has a sick daughter who suffers from triple personality, and for whom he falls in love.Adventurous soap opera. For soap fans only.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsJean RenoGary OldmanNatalie Portman12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.Standard violent action movie with a bit of Lolita thrown in. Jean Reno, Gary Oldman are ultra annoying.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..Apparently inspired by bad MTV videos, trendy TV commercials and grade-B drug movies, the director's self-righteous arrogance assumes he has something original to say. Drugs are bad! Gee, who knew?
- DirectorLenny AbrahamsonStarsBrie LarsonJacob TremblaySean BridgersA little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.I was shocked to learn that Brie Larson got an Oscar for this forgettable performance. Larson ruins it. I've never liked her and this movie shows why. Just the way she reacts to things is just bad acting. The rest is just bad, BTW
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.Poor acting, no plot, and a disappointing ending. So let's label it a cult movie. Sorry, my advice is 'Donnie Embarko'
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.The term "die-hard fan" describes Your Truly as a viewer extremely devoted and passionate about the Python telesseries. Yet YT hated every second of this tasteless movie, a fine example of poor script, terrible play, vain efforts of being funny, but just being utterly silly.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.Technically pedestrian, morally repugnant, viciously narrated. Lars von trier is a bit of a psycho if I may say. There's something psycho in here. It sounds like bigoted psychosis. I'll be honest. I'm not into set-less weird allegories perpetrated by psycho-auteurs. I've watched a bunch of von Trier films, and I'll never rewatch them. I hated them all. Such heavy, fucked up stories. Especially the Antichrist. I don't get it how someone can fancy them
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.Director Gilliam is an accomplished moron who generally tackles nonsensical stories that literally go nowhere. His inept, short-sighted direction consistently renders his stories downright annoying, flawed and incoherent beyond reason.
- DirectorMathieu KassovitzStarsVincent CasselHubert KoundéSaïd Taghmaoui24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.First of all: why was the film gratuitously shot in black and white? Its title accurately described my feeling. 'La Haine' is highly acclaimed, but pointless and boring. The chcracters are a bunch of hooligans: unpleasant, foul-mouthed, unsavoury, just baddies. At times it feels like there is no script; as if the cameras were simply left rolling while the actors went about.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.The worst thing that happened to action movies was the success of the Jason Bourne franchise. Now every action movie has to have blurry and shaky camera shots during fight scenes.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBob GeldofChristine HargreavesJames LaurensonA confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.This is my current recurring dream: I’m in front of The Wall but can’t sleep. To keep me company, TV host Luciano Huck is reading the lyrics to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and giving his take on meaning. It freaks me out. I think my brain is trying to drive me onto deeper sleep. ANyway, I don't like Pink Floyd. The Wall is bearable but other than that they bore me rigid.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalAntoine Olivier PilonSuzanne ClémentA widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.Just what I needed more: another movie portraying people with mental illness/difference as predatory and abusive. I do get fed up with the use of mental condition as a bogeyman.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.The opening scenes of WWII completely demonize Croats as fascists. It is important to bear in mind, this film was partially state funded under the Milosevic regime. Not surprising that Croatian or Bosnian characters are depicted as dumb or violent. Producers seem quite dishonest in doing so. I suppose they can justify the 167-minute length by the historical breadth, but it simply didn't sustain my interest.
- DirectorEdward YangStarsNien-Jen WuElaine JinIssei OgataEach member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.I will be honest and say, I didn't fully understand whats going on, it does have many layers and situations to make sense of. I also don't understand the praise heaped on this film. Though the premise is interesting, its execution is unbelievably dull, cold and distant.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsYûya YagiraAyu KitauraHiei KimuraIn a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.Kore-eda has always a distinctive style. He loves the static shot, as slow as unenvolving. Same with storytelling. We have to fill in the details. The effect requires much attention from the viewer, being downright shocking. Repetitive shots emphasize the non-verbal communication. In shorft, Nobody Knows is only rewarding for ultra patient viewers.
- CreatorStephen Adly GuirgisBaz LuhrmannStarsJustice SmithShameik MooreHerizen F. GuardiolaA ragtag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s.The director's name, Baz Luhrmann instantly put me off. It's another of his cheesefests with terrible acting, stupid campy scenes, ridiculous kung fu sounds and mock fighting, everything appallingly edited . Written by someone with no idea about New York's early hip hop scene.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsHaluk BilginerMelisa SözenDemet AkbagA hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.People talk, talk, talk, and what? For nothing. Now and then actors recitate lots of borrowed adages from Russian writer Anton Chekhov and the director borrows a lot from Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky. Not for all tastes
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.Kiarostami's works emulate Tarkowski and a little Fellini. They are meant to be spiritual and separate us completely from physical life, id est bring dream life into film. I do buy that in other auteurs, namely the Three Bs - Bergman, Bresson, Buñuel - minus the Iranian touch.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.Seattle Post-Intelligencer's William Arnold wrote:
¨It's vintage Moore: on one level the courageous act of a gutsy journalist, and, on another, a callously unfair and self-serving spectacle that makes Moore seem like a big bully, and puts his audience into the position of a vigilante mob.¨ - DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.A tree. A baby. Machinery. A basketball match. An old lady. Homeless people. Piles of smoke. A busy street. The merry-go-round. A cinema. Another homeless person asleep. A woman who dresses up. In a nutcase, everything is incredibly annoying. This film did not invent the jump cut, the 'montage of attractions,' or the Gestalt-like editing practice. Its 65 minutes seem like 6.5 hours of pure boredom. A waste of time, therefore. A bad example of what has since been labeled 'precursor,' even 'inventive historical classicism.' It's just a succession of random shots, taken by a leisurely director who, in his free time, vaguely edited it. It tried to capture the feel and rhythms of a modern city (Moscow) as well as the joy of living and working in the Worker's Paradise. Stylistically and modernly speaking, the closest comparison would be, for example, with Koyannisqqatsi or Arne Sucksdorf's Rhythms of a City. But Vertov suffers by comparison with any other documentary filmmaker. He is far from being a "must" for filmmakers or film buffs. A revolutionary film? Absolutely not. It did not represent any advance. Berlin: the Symphony of the City, dated 1927, or Joris Ivens' Rain, dated 1929, would best qualify for such epithet, and yet that would be an exaggeration. A documentary? There is a great difference between documentary and propaganda. A documentary generally shows life as it is, while propaganda shows what a filmmaker wants to show in order to make a point and convince others of some idea (usually political or economical). Vertov is frank propaganda. His concept of artistic social responsibility was derived from Stalinist notions and later incorporated into Nazi concepts. His goal was to glorify the Soviet regime. In 1929 Stalin consolidated his power in Russia and was about to embark on what was one of the most brutal and bloody regimes in history. Vertov perhaps did not know then whereto the regime would lead, but he did continue to make films that praised Stalin (Kolybelnaya, for example). Let no artist be condemned just for working for the state. I like Eisenstein, for example. If you must rent and watch The Man With a Movie Camera, do it with a solid perspective, regardless of... taste.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.Palme D'or was just about the political aspect. Bad photography, bad resolution , poor quality. Scrappy story. Quite cheesy. Yilmaz Guney was brave to shoot that kinda movie in Turkey. Yet objectively it's a disaster.
- CreatorÁlex PinaStarsÚrsula CorberóÁlvaro MorteItziar ItuñoAn unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.I detest the song used several times in the series, "Bella Ciao," a partisan hymn from the 19th century. It is a hymn of protest and resistance. However, money heisters are neither freedom fighters nor edifying heros
- DirectorToby HaynesStarsJesse PlemonsCristin MiliotiJimmi SimpsonCapt. Robert Daly presides over his crew with wisdom and courage. But a new recruit will soon discover nothing on this spaceship is what it seems.I loathed this episode, it didn't feel like a 'Black Mirror' episode. The kind of chapter where you feel bad at the end. Very much disappointed indeed.
- DirectorYann DemangeStarsJurnee SmollettJonathan MajorsAunjanue Ellis-TaylorAtticus Freeman meets up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father.¨Lovecraft Country¨ could have been better. It could have been meaningful but its producers were so wrapped up in politics & causes that they forgot to tell a good story. Its ultimate offense, nevertheless, is beyond politics or sides.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsEwan McGregorAlbert FinneyBilly CrudupA frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.Kinda fishy, boring and complete nonsense. Not sure if I've gogt dementia praecox or what. This movie did not make any sense to me. I got bored and could not understand at all what others see on it or what was the purpose or intended message. A waste of time.
- 1984–19961h 34mTV-PG8.0 (1.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorCorey AllenStarsAngela LansburyEddie BarthJessica BrowneFormer English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel. But when an unwanted guest is murdered by gunfire at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.Stick to Angela Landsbury as Miss Marple. Stick to Conan Doyle. Avoid such a watered-down Agatha Christie story simplified to fit a 50 minute time slot.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.Chicago Reader's Dave Kehr wrote: ¨Sluggish, repetitive, and strangely timorous, with little of the zap and imagination of the Pythons' television work.¨
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.Noise, noise and more noise. Pure dystopia trash.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.Unwatchable & artsy
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Ponderous. Definitely not something to watch casually. A rather inaccessible movie, extremely heady , philosophical sci-fi that may or may not give you a lot of food for thought.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.An interesting subject isn't helped by an overwrought dull drama. I appreciate movies that question morality and humanity. I don't want just a discussion of their feelings & emotions. A documentary would be more fitting.
- StarsSam ElliottCliff PottsDarleen CarrA story of the professional and private lives of two Army officers, Court Massengale an incompetent schemer who doesn't care about his men, and Sam Damon, a heroic and caring leader from World War I to the end of World War II.An overly long soap opera miniseries. At least Holocaust, Roots (though somewhat soapy as well) had ample historical context.
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsGeir WestbyGro FraasKerstii AllumThis biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his lifeVery hard to watch, although it contains an interesting focus & interpretation of the art process
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.There are many mafia movies much better than this, why people love this one so much I can't understand. ANyway I am not a particular fan of the genre. Mafia story lines only serve to glorify the real mafias. And nothing here was new enough to add to the classic formula
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodLee Van CleefGian Maria VolontèTwo bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.The New York Times' Bosley Crowther
wrote: ¨The fact that this film is constructed to endorse the exercise of murderers, to emphasize killer bravado and generate glee in frantic manifestations of death is a sharp indictment of it as so-called entertainment in this day.¨ - DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.It's exhausting, except that Morricone's score is remarkable. The thriller is annoying at times because of a lot of close ups of shouting faces. Everybody shouts at everybody else.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAl PacinoJohn CazalePenelope AllenThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.Chicago Reader's Dave Kehr wrote: ¨Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall—an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors.¨
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Oddly enough, (i) the film has high status, (ii) the director, Cimino, was universally panned for his next film, "Heaven's Gate", which was directed in the exact, same, dragged-out style.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.Variety described i as ¨A curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.¨
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.Maudlin and boring. It's a film that tries way too hard to make you care. Or, less than meets the eye. It collapses in the second half. Lots of pathos, little substance. Slowpaced, it relies on atmosphere.
- CreatorLee Sung JinStarsSteven YeunAli WongJoseph LeeTwo people let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action.Shitty show on Netflix got plenty of Emmys. Wow... I turned it off in the middle of ep1...
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason FlemyngDexter FletcherNick MoranEddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.this film isn't popular with the over-55 crowd. I call it Pulp because its genre is a combination of Action/Adventure, Film Noir, and Horror interlaced with bizarre characters, offbeat themes, sick humour and irony galore. Personally, I don't find it very entertaining, but I do recognize creativity and boldness.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason StathamBrad PittStephen GrahamUnscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.Snatch is well constructed and witty. But I 've grown tired of cringe mockney - apart from Statham's awful acting. It sounds like a bad mix of post-Tarantino crime movies and annoying mockney geezer schtick.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.The only originality about this movie is, Clark Gable's shirtless scenes actually led to a decrease in undershirt sales in America upon this feature's release (that's true, and the funniest thing about this movie).
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsPaul NewmanGeorge KennedyStrother MartinA laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.I didn't hate the movie, I just expected more. I thought something would stand out. But nothing really did.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya ToledoAn amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.Thoroughly depressing. Avoid this, mostly so if you like dogs.
- CreatorBaran bo OdarJantje FrieseStarsLouis HofmannKaroline EichhornLisa VicariA family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.For the record, the makers said that they wanted to lure the viewers on the wrong track. My conclusion is, they were themselves on the wrong, lame, ridiculous track. There is no excuse for not pulling this off in a consequent way.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockJoseph CottenRaymond BaileyWilliam Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.Joseph Cotton is a cold-hearted businessman who callously fires one of his employees. He is then involved in a car accident which leaves him paralyzed. The story is morbid, we have to listen to everything going through his mind. He can't speak, he's so motionless that everyone assumes he is dead. If Cotton deserves his terrible fate, we the viewers do not deserve punishment. This minor Hitch is dreary, morbid, and painful to watch.
- DirectorEduardo EscorelStarsEduardo EscorelGetúlio VargasOsvaldo AranhaNewsreels, photographs, letters, diary excerpts, fiction and family films, folk songs and so on. Through these heterogeneous records, the film offers a vision of Getulio Vargas dictatorship by commenting on these documents produced for various purposes - political advertising, journalistic information, personal note, family celebration - as well as by seeking to unravel the Estado Novo regime's political plot.A waste of rich materials: newsreels, photographs, letters, diary excerpts, fiction and family films, folk songs that offer a supposed vision of the Getulio Vargas dictatorship. In better hands it might have succeeded.
- DirectorMarcelo MasagãoStarsFranz ReicheltA fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.A wasted poetical collage of images with the supposed purpose of revealing social, cultural and political transformations; the director makes awkward statements on such issues.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsMarcel SabourinMonique MercureMarthe ThierryThe wife of photographer J. A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.Superb photography. Too slow a movie, though, way too slow. You'll struggle through the first half hour. You'll fight fatigue.
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsLéopold TremblayAlexis TremblayAbel HarveyAt the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.A hard subject: young men of Ile-aux-Coudres in the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of belugas interrupted in 1924.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsHélène LoiselleJean LapointeGuy ProvostA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.An account of Québec nuns who were arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks in 1970. Heavy treatment. Heavy to watch at all.
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee CurtisA middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.Won 7 Oscars. Another 395 wins & 373 nominations. Not bad for such an AbNomination
- CreatorPhoebe Waller-BridgeStarsJodie ComerSandra OhFiona ShawAfter a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked.reviewer Johnny West says: ¨People wake up screaming at the top of their lungs. Targets of low budget assassinations ask "Why me?" and the star of the show says "I don't know." Shock for the sake of shock. This show is about vapid, soul-less, sickening characters, and the cynical concept that if there is nothing to show, the audience will try to figure out the mystery. The joke here is that there is nothing behind the curtain. The characters have no human values. Pointless cruelty and death are the focus of this show. Killing Eve is degrading to the human spirit. This is just crass and trash. The main writer for this show said that they do not do backgrounds for each character. That is lazy writing. This is an incredibly awful series about characters that nobody should care about, and stupid situations that end badly.¨ I couldn't agree more
- CreatorGuy RitchieStarsTheo JamesKaya ScodelarioDaniel IngsWhen aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to a huge weed empire, and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.Communism never arrived in the UK, but, in Guy Ritchie's mind, the elites and the lumpenproletariat have already merged. Marijuana is produced on a mega-industrial scale inside castles. Gangsters are noble and treated as such (Your Grace). No wonder the series and the previous film are called The Gentlemen.
- CreatorDick WolfStarsMariska HargitayChristopher MeloniIce-TThis series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.25 seasons. 547 episodes. At the very least, the series wore out and became repetitive.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEmma StoneMark RuffaloWillem DafoeAn account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.This is pretentious Septième Art in the weirdest, most bizarre way possible. It's just a variation on bizarre male fantasies that really shouldn't exist at all. The one funny thing was the first frame saying 'contains tobacco references', which is then proceeded by the opening shot of a suicide. What a bizarre world we filmgoers are living in! In the end, this is nothing else than heady snob-bait, and a bizarrely dark nightmare. The bizarre acting and weird storyline just aren't interesting. Nor the CGI effects make the production values impressive.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsMatt DamonChristian BaleJon BernthalAmerican car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.¨It is crammed with unearned emotional moments and factory-built male characters whose dedication to their sport we are expected to find adorable and heroic by turns.¨(The Guardian)
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsHugh JackmanPatrick StewartDafne KeenIn a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.just another war-is-hell movie
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.Oliver Stone is not a poor filmmaker -- but he's used this to put certain myths into the American bloodstream that abide to this day. This movie is sometimes brilliant but it is inundated with lies.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovernA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
The tiresome biographical drama at the heart of most mafia movies bores me. - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.Quintessential spaghetti
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsBenedict CumberbatchKeira KnightleyMatthew GoodeDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.Minor biopic of a genius. Fine production values, though.
- CreatorMark GatissSteven MoffatStarsBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanUna StubbsThe quirky spin on Conan Doyle's iconic sleuth pitches him as a "high-functioning sociopath" in modern-day London. Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquaintance.Doyle's detective or kinda high-tech super hero?
Sherlock re-imagined as a troubled but brilliant modern detective and Watson as a haunted but loyal man of action make up for re-interpretations of traditional stories in an era of high technology. But it has fallen very low, riddled with the writers' own personal manias, and their decision to twist the narratives (no longer 'stories' in the conventional sense), to redesign Holmes as a troubled and alienated super-hero wandering aimlessly through visual gimmickry and spectacular effects. - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Quintessential cult fiction. The New Republic's Stanley Kauffmann wrote: ¨The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming. ¨[14 Nov 1994]
- StarsFrancisco CuocoRegina DuarteGilberto MartinhoA simple man, married to a visual artist, becomes friends with a crook who helps him get the attention of his rich uncle but ultimately leads his wife to an apparent death in a car accident, but she survives and assumes a new identity.
- StarsGlória MenezesTony RamosElizabeth SavallaAndré Cajarana, son of a convicted criminal, comes to Rio de Janeiro to elucidate his father's death and exonerate him from accusations. Bruno Baldaracci, former partners of his dad, married to André's biological mother, stands in his way.
- StarsTaís AraújoDrica MoraesVictor WagnerIn the Brazil Colonial period, an intelligent, seductive and vengefully ruthless slave rises to become a practical queen when an important contractor falls for her, much for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
- CreatorRichard LevinsonWilliam LinkStarsPeter FalkMike LallyJohn FinneganLos Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.An L.A. lieutenant always finds the murderer by guess work, speculation, psychic work. He knows what happened as if he were there during the action. He always shares evidence with the suspects and the murderer is always the first person he speaks to... If Iwere a detective, I'd find this programme funny, borderline comical and fantasy.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsCary ElwesMandy PatinkinRobin WrightA bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.Unhealthy and unfunny mix of fantasy romance and farce sinking the label of "cult classic"
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Though interesting in pieces, it's empty as a whole, in particular the surreal dream sequences, self-extravagant pieces of nothingness that neither add nor subtract to the story, being neither deep nor new.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.Very partially I recommend Chaplin's Dictator because of two gags: Hynkel playing with an enormous world balloon, and the Jewish barber shaving a man while fitting to Brahms' #5 Hungarian Dance.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.Cash of Tiitans Pacino & DeNiro is strong on testosterone, weak on script
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Considered at the time as the quintessential romantic comedy , it quickly became more of a museum piece
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsPaul NewmanGeorge KennedyStrother MartinA laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.Maybe I missed the point, perhaps the 23-minute egg-eating scene had some sort of life-altering resonance.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsCarole LombardJack BennyRobert StackDuring the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.Maybe it was hot in 1942, but this is 2024. Unconvincing story of assorted characters pretending to be somebody else in wartime Poland. Supposed to be a comedy, but very few chuckles.
- DirectorSean PennStarsEmile HirschVince VaughnCatherine KeenerAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.I found the scenario hypocritic . The bloke burns all his money and then works to earn some, he criticizes the consumers society, and still works in a burger king store, he uses equipment & products of the industry that he hates, which destroys the wildlife he so much adores. He makes fun of laws, but doesn't make love with a girl he likes just because she is not over 18.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.The Phantom Carriage was written by
Selma Lagerlöf, Nobel Prize in 1909 for literature, the first of all women: "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". Lagerlöf wrote this preachy story heavily influenced by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Story. Stick to Scrooge.