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Finally, a properly filmed legend. Although not so heavyweight in terms of the actors' names, it can't compare with the 90s version, but actually in everything else it does and in many parameters it even surpasses it. This new remake is much less of a likeable pulp flick and much more of a gritty, dark film of intrigue with excellent sets and fantastically shot action, but there's very little of that so far and that's a shame. Only a fraction of films in French production have this kind of bold handheld camerawork and editing. It's expected that the sequel will be suitably epic and live up to expectations, as many fans are duly hyped after the first installment, and quite rightly so. PS: Captain Rochefort is missing!

Perfect craftsmanship. A mix of intricate crime drama like Mystic River and gloomy atmosphere in the style of the recent The Little Things with Denzel Washington, but with a much more interesting script and a fantastic cast. The experience isn't in the twist or the story's outcome, which is predictable and there’s no really big surprise in store. The key is the style of the storytelling, the direction and the work of the editor, who has a great sense of composition and masterfully mixes some of the sound and image structures into unique units. For what is essentially a directorial debut, hats off.

More of a nice fan-service than a full-fledged drama with emotional charge and theses from life like Rush. Gran Turismo has some nice moments, decent circuit racing scenes, solid unobtrusive visual effects and new faces, plus the old ones are cool and don't get in the way. Hounsou and Harbour do what's expected of them, and Bloom is just Bloom. The relationship line, however, is completely unnecessary. This film isn't talked about much probably due to weaker promotion or a specific target audience, it certainly won't become as popular as Nikki Lauda's story, but it has passable qualities.

If the fifth season slowly stumbled into the finale, the sixth has been stumbling since the start. So many generic templates, clunky dialogue and twists that are often pulled out of thin were perhaps not enough in the first 3-4 seasons together. For God's sake finish the job and let our favourite characters have at least a little of that personality fluid. Between 2 and 3.

One big wannabe dramatic charade with crypto magic boxes, throwing billions of USD left and right, all in a retrospectively cut episode where nothing makes much sense and the screenwriting ineptitude hides behind dense, wannabe sophisticated dialogue.

A hedge fund revelry with a polymorphic structure, sometimes incomprehensible editing and skipping of important moments in the story and character development and the final twist? Fincher should look at this.

Quite a tasteful respite where Paul Giamatti as the maverick Chuck Rhoades leads the troops again, all in the beautiful atmosphere of a rustic luxury country-club by the lake, which sets the stage to come out with more twists and turns and return to the battlefield.

A roller coaster full of slick dialogue that looks more like an advertisement for robots, but then Paul Giamatti comes in with his speech and you're willing to forgive a lot of things for this tired series, which is quite hard to swallow, especially in the last episodes.

A physically ambitious B-movie that may not have a top-notch technical execution and has poor character psychology, but the tension could be cut and the generally well staged dramatic scenes often make you want to cover your eyes. They have managed to cope with a small budget and a 30-foot stunt tower and turned this into a sometimes nerve-wracking survival drama. The allusions to social media are great.

Corey Stoll tries as hard as he can, but when the writers set up a few twists in 50 minutes, he can do whatever he wants and still the viewer just shakes their head in disbelief. The various moves on the chessboard are so stilted and inarticulate that they happen only for the purpose of the plot, rather than there being any real suggestion that they could actually happen this way in the real world, full of real characters.