Kategorie: Movie

This event was held on the 9th of January 2023 | »The Banshees of Inisherin« scored 8,4 Genusspunkte | @Scala

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McDonagh gelingt so ein beeindruckend menschlicher Film, der deutlich geerdeter wirkt als alle seine bisherigen Arbeiten. Der persönliche Gehalt des Themas gibt dem gesamten Film eine gewisse Intimität, die man bis in die Figuren hinein spürt. Es ist ein sehr witziger Film mit dutzenden Zitaten für die Ewigkeit, der gleichzeitig aber sehr ernst und schwermütig wird. McDonagh bleibt bei seiner unversöhnlichen Konsequenz, die schon in »Brügge« etwas Irrwitziges wie Erschreckendes hatte. Indem er hier trotz einiger Exzesse ins Extreme und Skurrile eine unerwartete Bescheidenheit offenbart, berührt seine Geschichte tief. Und man denkt an diese Berührung am Ende sogar mehr als an all die vielen schönen Lacher.

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This wvent was held on the 2nd of January 2023 | »Barbarian« scored 5,48 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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Cregger slowly builds bone-chilling and suspenseful sequences up to screechingly operatic moments of face-melting horror, and then swiftly cuts to a different chapter, making a hard left into a completely different mode, taking us all on the roller-coaster ride. His facility with comedy also aids in these jarring tone switches, and »Barbarian« is as funny as it is terrifying.

Katie Walsh in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This event was held on the 10th of December 2022 | »Der denkwürdige Fall des Mr. Poe« scored 5,48 Genusspunkte | @Filmpalast

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„The Tell-Tale Heart“ uses an unreliable narrator. The exactness with which the narrator recounts murdering the old man, as if the stealthy way in which they executed the crime were evidence of their sanity, reveals their monomania and paranoia. The focus of the story is the perverse scheme to commit the perfect crime. One author, Paige Bynum, asserts that Poe wrote the narrator in a way that „allows the reader to identify with the narrator“.

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This event was held on the 21st of December 2022 | »Aftersun« scored 9 Genusspunkte | @Abaton

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Aftersun flows like a fondly remembered memory that’s been replayed endlessly, as if trying to find an important detail that might explain what happened. The easy pace of Wells’s direction brings out the best in her central performers, and the chemistry between Mescal and Corio plays out effortlessly. The light moments between them are warm and the darker ones linger heavily.

Anna Bogutskaya in Time Out

This event was held on the 9th of January 2023 | »White Noise« scored 6,15 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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»White Noise« has so much crammed into its two-and-a-quarter hours that it will take multiple viewings to unpack it all. Luckily, it’s all so entertaining that the prospect of those multiple viewings is an enticing one indeed.

Nicholas Barber at BBC

This event was held on the 21st of December 2022 | »The Wonder« scored 7 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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In the end, Lelio earns the powerful close of The Wonder with every temperate turn. His film, a career-best, departs like a birdsong, with an optimistic finale as perfect and revelatory as they come.

Tomris Laffly in TheWrap

This event was held on the 19th of December | »The Stranger« scored 6,3 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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What makes The Stranger work is how this all creates an experience that feels as though the two men have become almost doomed to a life where they will aimlessly wander in what feels like an Australian purgatory. Whether they ever manage to escape and uncover some sort of closure is irrelevant to the growing rot that threatens to consume their souls no matter what they do.

Chase Hutchinson in Collider

This event was held on the 16th of November 2022 | »The Menu« scored 6,36 Genusspunkte | @Filmpalast

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This is a vengeful dark comedy that probes percolating class anxieties (a popular theme in cinema lately). It indulges in opportunities to strip the emperor of his clothes, and while that doesn’t necessarily translate to the most revelatory social commentary, it does make for an amusing ride.

Lovia Gyarkye in The Hollywood Reporter

This event was held on the 22nd of December 2022 | »Guillermo Del Toros Pinocchio« scored 8 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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Pinocchio feels like the best mix of classic del Toro and new del Toro, with the wisdom and melancholy that comes with age and experience, yet his bright-eyed love of fairy tales from his Spanish-language films. Perhaps more impressive is how Pinocchio pushes the oldest form of animation to new places, and like the puppet himself, breathes life into inanimate objects.

Rafael Motamayor in IndieWire

This event was held on the 30th of December 2022 | »Glass Onion« scored 7,6 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

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This picture offers more action, more delicious comeuppances, more daring design and a few genuinely surprising cameos just for good measure. Yet it doesn’t suffer from the usual “give ’em the same thing, but more of it” bloat common in sequels to surprise hits. Its ensemble is more varied than Knives‘, and its critique of the clueless rich more relevant to our age.

John DeFore in The Hollywood Reporter