Pompously, this neonoir crime series set in Tokyo at the turn of the 1990s and the 2000s was announced as the great return of the legendary Michael Mann (The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Insider, …
TOKYO VICE (2022, JPN-USA) – 8/10
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ENSAYO DE UN CRIMEN (1955, MEX) – 8/10
This black-humored crime drama is another film from the Mexican phase of the famous Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, who made as many as 21 films there in his 18-year period. Some films he has …
THE BIG CHILL (1983, USA) – 8/10
When one thinks a little better, graduation anniversaries are actually interesting social experiments. After five, ten, twenty or forty years, people who once, in their youth, may have been close, have gathered, and life has …
CONFERENCE (2020, RUS) – 7/10
Russian filmmaker of the younger generation Ivan Tverdovsky (Jumpman) presented himself with this naturalistic, difficult and shocking drama during the author’s week of the Venice Film Festival. In “Konferentsiya” (Conference), he deals with a …
THE CURSED (2021, USA) – 6.5 / 10
The year is 1917 and the Battle of the Somme River is being fought, one of the most famous and bloodiest battles of the First World War. One British officer was wounded and taken to …
BEANS (2020, CAN) – 6.5 / 10
Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer, a woman who also belongs to the Mohawk Indian tribe, shot a semi-autobiographical coming of age drama set in the part of Quebec where she grew up. And that was in …
FOR LUCIO (2021, ITA) – 7/10
After switching from documentaries to feature films with the film “Martin Eden” for a short time (and extremely successfully!), Italian Pietro Marcello decided to return to his documentary field. His documentary “Per Lucio” or “For …
THE MARKSMAN (2021, USA) – 6/10
Liam Neeson under the old days continues the mission of rescuing children from the jaws of criminal organizations. After previously rescuing children, nephews and young people from Russian mobsters, Boko Haram, Udba, HDZ youth, Ku …
EL ESTUDIANTE (2011, ARG) – 8/10
After presenting himself with this clever and dynamic political drama at the Locarno festival (and winning a special jury award), the then 31-year-old Argentine filmmaker Santiago Miter was nicknamed the Latin American Aaron Sorkin. Miter, …
RHINO (2021, UKR) – 10/10
Until this film, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sencov was better known to me for the problems he found himself in after Russia arrested him in Crimea in May 2014 and soon sentenced him to 20 years …