Austrian Sten Ruzowitzki is still best remembered for the excellent Holocaust drama “Forgeries” from 2007, which brought his country the Oscar for best foreign film. After that, Ruzowitsky also tried his hand at Hollywood with …
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ENQUETE SUR UN SCANDALE D’ETAT / UNDERCOVER (2021, FRA)
It seemed at first that this crime drama could be the French answer to “Spotlight” because here we also have a story about a journalist who exposes a first-class scandal, but screenwriter and director Thierry …
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THE COVENANT (2023, GBR) – 8/10
We finally got Guy Ritchie to at least briefly stop making movies in which he unsuccessfully tries to repeat the formula from “Locks, Stocks” and “Snatch” and to fuck off his irritating friend Jason Statham. …
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THAT KIND OF SUMMER (2022, CAN)
Francophone Canadian art filmmaker Denis Cote presented himself in the main program of the festival in Berlin with this provocative, almost voyeuristic drama about three sex addicts who signed up for some kind of experimental …
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS (2023, GBR) – 7.5/10
Steven Knight is one of those television authors whose previous merits and successes have ensured that he can do whatever he wants in the near future. Knight secured a blank check and a blank sheet …
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THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (2022,ITA-BEL) – 8/10
The Belgian duo Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgica, Beautiful Boy) and Charlotte Vandermeersch set themselves the not-so-easy task of translating the successful book of the same name by the Italian Paolo Cognetti. …
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GODS AND MONSTERS (1998, USA) – 7.5/10
This biographical drama by Bill Condon follows the last days in the life of British director James Whale, who is best remembered today as the author of the classic Frankenstein horrors with Boris Karloff as …
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GANGS A PART (1964, FRANCE) – 9/10
The 1960s were by far the most fruitful and best period of the French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard, and I always saw this humorous crime drama as a kind of continuation of Godard’s most …
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EN LOS MARGENES (2022, ŠPA) – 7/10
Argentinian-Spanish actor Juan Diego Botto presented himself as a socially engaged filmmaker with the drama premiered in the Horizonti section of the Venice festival. His poignant drama about multiple human destinies that will intertwine over …
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MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE (2022, USA) – 6/10
From year to year, it seems that more and more films and series are made based on the works of Stephen King. I have a feeling that the doodles he wrote on the toilet no …
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