“(OK) One of this year's obscure films. It has a nightmarish quality, playing with time amd the parents going old (and there is great Toni Collette), and the rare musical escape...” read more
“(OK) Great opera prima. Unpretentious but straight to the point of no man's land between deaf and noise. The 'expulsion of paradise' of Riz Ahmed when he wants to hear and gets a surgery, is simple and wonderful...” read more
“(OK) Hong Sang-soo in short minimalis modern urban characters tale: a womna goes to old friends as subtlety escaping her possesive husband, her no life...” read more
“(OK) Boetticher straight and nice on his characters, the dramy foggy noir is texture over texture nurturing the film...” read more
“(OK) More director than plot. Mulligan depicts in excellent real location tha controlled chaos of teachin in a poor NY environment. The suicide of a girl is jusr one great touch, instead of the episodic ones...” read more
“(OK) Spike lee never closer to Tarantino than in this, His 'inglorious black bastards' have bulshit alibis to retrieve gold in Vietnam, the maddest has a poetic death, in the jungle, after talking in close up to the camera...” read more
“(OK) A straight with excellent lanscape locations, agonic without underlining it, woth a good twist of characters (the captain dies, the soft character takes hi splace and triumphs)...” read more
“(OK) No reference to a known mythology but in b/W here are the textures, the detritus, the noises and smog of tarkovsky and other incursions on modern decadence. The featus is unforgettable...” read more
“(NX) Film for film history lovers; most is play fot those who know, even the best secuence, with Dolce Vita's touches (Mank and Marion Davies near a fountain) and a nocturnal zoo in the background , demmands to know location and chatracters. in the same location. Hearst tell Mank the fable of the mo” read more
“(NX) Oh, Sophia, you better rest. She wasn't in condition to play this for love to her child Ponti. Bari as locaton is the best of the film...” read more
“(OK) Good script, ice construction of action and trial, ups and downs of lot of colourful characters, including Sacha Baron...” read more
“(OK) Ron Howard never fails in feeling, don't ask more; but there´s a nice enphasis on clasism, on reivindication of hillbllyism agisnt Yale lay sudents anf firms...” read more
“(OK) Thanks Lourcelles to point this surprising, gentle, kind, melodrama of an unresolved love by Rossi and Francey, with deep echos, and moving rendered songs...” read more
“(NX) Good plot the deserved, changes of tone, but Howard goes straight and efficciently in a drama that denounces classism... Glenn Close is trying to show she can be humble. Adams is better...” read more
“(OK) Goof plot of the chief of police posing as a dead ganster because is his look alike and falling in a subtle elegant way to Madeleine Robinson, and Jouvet is impecable...” read more
“(OK) A series of melo and romantic student comedy clisés, with theatrical background. Forget the students and there´s Jouvet, the great Juvet telling a sutden parents what he woud've told his parents, that's great...” read more
“(OK) Lovable Michele Morgan; nice melodrama, very mature, love Frehel in just two short interpretations ending with her hand in her face...” read more
“(OK) So simple, so deep in its auterity, so great. The device of the ritual meeting of two people to remember an era, a lost Indian mahajarajahs system, is pure Ivoy & Merchant.” read more
“(OK) Rare chatacters, L'atalante of the rural Rhone river. Simon and lovable Morlay are more human than excentric; and the young lovers bring another kind od drama to it...” read more
“(OK) Black war thieves comedy when Yugoslavia still existed. Inmorals maked symathetic because they're caught in nazi invasion...” read more
“(OK) Tourneur amuses himself with Milland in foreign welsh and scottish land looking for the secret of a dead brother, who is forgotten in the end, as if he were an alibi for fun...” read more
“(OK) Puzzle of a dead girl (non alluring Donna Reed), wth noir tones by the men who loved her. Ladd in one of his bes roles, even Arthur Kennedy can't seteel camera frm him. June Havoc is good...” read more
“(OK) Lorre makes a good composition and China and Shangai and San Francisco chinatown are good ficitional locations; but there isn't enough rythm, humour and stylised action” read more
“(OK) Kind of late neorrealism and early Hiroshima drama, in japanese cinema. More subtle tahn shocking, the tragedy and the location impregnates everything...” read more
“(OK) Conventional infdian melodrama in a way, but reaches epic and denonciation, int the exodus to Calcutta. Musical excerpts are in the margin...” read more