Skating in oil! A meta espionage action whirlwind with many incredible twists and turns. Matthew Vaughn takes the viewer for a ride on several levels and yet it's seamlessly coherent and everything makes perfect sense in the end, no matter how absurd the genre crutch. Sam Rockwell is terrific, and the train fight with…

Honestly, this was probably the worst series I wasted my time on this anime season. The animation was weak, the music was forgettable, but those weren’t even the main issues. The biggest problem for me was the main character. His behavior and voice acting made him incredibly unlikable. Aoi Shouta's voice just doesn't…

Richard Linklater is quite an unexplored director for me, his work has always passed me by, so I didn't have high expectations and I wasn't too impressed either. The action was non-existent, the humour minimal to nonexistent and the whole thing hinged on the likable duo of Glen Powell and the beautiful Adria Arjona,…

Fans of Dumas' might not agree, but "The Three Musketeers" is at best "just" period-conditioned consumable reading, excessively naive and heavily romanticized. Directors attempting to adapt the book were aware of its limitations and the resulting risks for today's audience, often opting for exaggeration and comedic…

Each generation interprets the myth of the empress a bit differently. This is a highly original interpretation and one of the few that focuses on the end of her life as the main theme. Her relationship with the last lady-in-waiting and the events in Corfu. The artistic license taken is quite wild, especially regarding…

Twenty minutes before the end of the film I was almost 100% sure that my rating would be a clear 4*, but then everything changed. Like Hitchcock's previous Rope, Rear Window takes place on a rather limited setting, but that makes this film all the more engaging and original. The idea of observing the mundane…

James Cameron is a master with a capital M, and when he took over the director's chair from Ridley Scott, he certainly didn't do the first Alien a disservice. Cameron doesn’t skimp, in fact, that word may not even be in his vocabulary, and delivers a perfect and technically proficient sequel about alien monsters. Of…

A romantic drama about the lives of three very different sisters, offering a glimpse into their everyday problems, spiced up with a good deal of wit and irony, which was Woody Allen's forte. It was he, and then Dianne Wiest, who pulled the whole film together as far as the cast was concerned. The script was very well…

Next to 1999's Lake Placid, Rogue is the best representative in the crocodile horror genre, thanks to a well-made monster and a fairly sensible plot. Compared to other horror films, this one spares us the gratuitous sight of bloody chunks of half-eaten victims, and instead we are treated to shots of the beautiful …

I kept The Matrix in the cool of my closet for a really long time (a decade, actually) and on the one hand it's good that I waited, because I might not have even understood it at the time, but on the other hand I was depriving myself of a perfect piece of filmmaking in terms of script and execution that is undoubtedly…