Kategorie: Movie

This event was held on the 29th of February | »Wo ist Anne Frank?« scored 6,42 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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The story of Anne Frank and her diary is retold in this fervent, heartfelt and visually wonderful animated film from Israeli director Ari Folman, who made his name with the animated historical satire Waltz With Bashir in 2008. This is a kind of reinvention or fantasy reboot, reading the story again through a contemporary lens and giving it a kind of Young Adult identity; not inappropriate, given that Anne Frank was arguably the great ancestor of YA.

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian

This event was held on the 25th of February | »Women Talking« scored 7,725 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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Hard as it might be to imagine, Women Talking is an upbeat and propulsive film cut with a sharp wit and a ready sense of humor, even if its characters are often laughing as hard as they wish they could cry.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 2nd of February | »Die Frau im Nebel« scored 8,2125 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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It’s a good thing, then, that »Decision to Leave« isn’t a whodunnit […]. In fact, Park’s funny, playful, and increasingly poignant crime thriller is less interested in what [detective] Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) knows about his suspect than in how he feels about her.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 29th of January | »Return to Seoul« scored 7,75 Genusspunkte | @Harmonie

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A staggering masterwork that reveals itself unhurriedly, one permutation at a time, Chou’s third feature is perhaps the only film this year in which every single scene and every line of dialogue within them feel absolutely indispensable. The richness in every detail, and their unexpected ramifications over time, make for a one-of-a-kind character study.

Carlos Aguilar in Los Angeles Times

This event was held on the 26th of January | »Close« scored 8,96 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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Dhont and his team know just how to turn up the emotional dials with stunning magic-hour lensing that gives golden-haired Dambrine a halo of backlit suffering as he stands in fields of nodding dahlias, that most gloriously domestic and benevolent flower.

Leslie Felperin in The Hollywood Reporter

This event was held on the 28th of January | »The Son« scored 4,75 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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Where “The Father” was subtle and twisty, this drama is more agitated and restless, even melodramatic at times – but that’s a directorial decision that certainly fits the dark and troubling subject that the film explores but doesn’t exploit.

Steve Pond in TheWrap

This event was held on the 21th of January 2023 | »Vengeance« scored 7,05875 Genusspunkte | @UCI

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Even when the jokes miss the mark or the central mystery seems too easily solved, Vengeance is sustained by the question of what its characters mean to each other; a question asked sweetly but shrouded by an ever-growing darkness that allows the film to wander into dangerous territory by the end.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 20th of January 2023 | »Babylon« scored 7,22 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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Shimmering, mournful, and riotous, Babylon is one of the year’s best movies, thanks in part to a star-making performance by Diego Calva. Babylon mostly operates in a structure of set pieces, thoroughly earning its not-a-minute-too-long runtime—a whopping 189 minutes—and it’s packed to the gills with stunning craftsmanship.

Tomris Laffly in The A.V. Club

This event was held on the 15th of January 2023 | »Holy Spider« scored 7,8 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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Abbasi has made an Iranian noir which, even though it dares to poke around the spiritual capital of Iran with its largest mosque in the world, isn’t an assault on the Iranian government per se, but a crime thriller which shows how far fundamentalist morality can be twisted and how banal the face of evil really is.

Fionnuala Halligan in Screen Daily