The Bulgarian candidate for the Oscar was announced as the country’s answer to “The Green Mile”, but these two films cannot fit in the same sentence. However, I expected much, much more from “In the …
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TULSA KING (2022, USA) – 7/10
The hyper-productive Taylor Sheridan continues to churn out series at an incredible pace, and the latest in the series is an action thriller with Sylvester Stallone as a temporary mobster sent from New York to …
Continue readingTILL (2022, USA) – 8/10
Another harrowing and shocking, but exceptionally high-quality drama comes to us from the American South and reminds us of not so long ago when it was dangerous to have a slightly darker skin color. “Till” …
Continue readingORPHEUS (1950, FRANCE) – 8/10
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is probably known even to those who have completed only four grades of primary school, and the legend of a young man with an angelic voice …
Continue readingSUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (1970,GBR) – 8/10
A year after winning the Academy Award for directing the iconic Midnight Cowboy, which won the all-important award for best picture and screenplay, John Schlesinger returned to England to make another striking, modernist drama. Just …
Continue readingMY POLICEMAN (2022, GBR) – 7/10
Marion (Gina McKee) and Tom (Linus Roach) are retirees who have decided to spend the rest of their lives in a coastal town in the south of England, and after learning that their former friend …
Continue readingPENGADBI SETAN 2: COMMUNION (2022,IND)
Five years after the incredible success of the horror “Pengadbi setan” or “Satan’s Slaves”, which is still the most watched Indonesian horror of all time, the master of the genre there, Joko Anwar, decided to …
Continue readingTHE NEW GREATNESS CASE (2022, RUS)
A rather shocking insight into the social situation of today’s Russia is provided by the research documentary of the young Russian filmmaker Anna Šišova, who currently lives in Israel. “The New Greatness Case” follows a …
Continue readingEMANCIPATION (2022, USA) – 6.5/10
After winning the Oscar a year earlier for the role of Richard Williams, Will Smith seemed to have the ambition to follow in the footsteps of Tom Hanks and try to win the most important …
Continue readingDEATH OF A VIRGIN AND THE SON OF NOT LIVING (2021, LIB)
This unusual and quite original and even philosophical humorous drama was premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin festival. “Death of a Virgin” was also the first film for the Argentinian-Lebanese filmmaker George Peter …
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