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9/10
An excellent and funny coming of age fantasy adventure that strategically combines some of the best ingredients: a buddy story, supernatural beings and epic fights
26 July 2022
Positive:
  • perfect for all ages
  • refreshing story of two individuals who find their place in the world together
  • original mix of different well-known stories and concepts
  • touching moments
  • impressive fights and pictures


Negative:
  • nothing.
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8/10
A magnificent and epic classic from the start
25 July 2022
Positive:
  • dark humor and artful dialogues
  • brilliant staging and intelligent narrative style that casts a spell
  • memorable characters, notably Javier Bardem as a slightly different psychopath


Negative:
  • sobering end.
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9/10
Emotionally gripping and breathtaking old-school thrill
19 July 2022
Positive:
  • breathtaking and virtuosic flight scenes (without visual effects!)
  • quick and clear staging
  • good balance between flight scenes and interpersonal drama / despite character drama a real "male" action film
  • good balance between nostalgia/homage and reinvention
  • powerful images and sound


Neutral:
  • politically neutral, but still military propaganda


Negative:
  • a little too much egomania by Tom Cruise; the film doesn't have much else to offer besides him and the aerial spectacle.
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Skyfire (2019)
5/10
Entertaining trash movie with some good moments
23 June 2022
Positive:
  • surprisingly emotional moments


Negative:
  • series of questionable moments (where people curiously survive)
  • low budget special effects
  • unimaginative story.
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9/10
Entertaining, exciting and informative
26 April 2022
Positive:
  • very different animals keep the documentary exciting and varied
  • mainly scientifically substantiated analysis, but conveyed in an exciting and lively way


Negative:
  • nothing.
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7/10
Owns much of the typical Harry Potter magic
19 April 2022
Positive:
  • Mads Mikkelsen as Grindelwald
  • stunning sets, meticulously designed animals and costumes and an excellent sound (and D-Box!!) production make this a cinema "beast"


Negative:
  • with Dumbledore in the focus, it feels more like a Harry Potter movie than a Fantastic Beasts movie.
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8/10
Surprising and entertaining superhero fun
9 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Positive:
  • outrageously entertaining and dry-humored, but at the same time emotional, tragic and gloomy
  • non-stop surprises
  • the once again fantastic Tom Holland gives his character a whole new depth and the chemistry with Zendaya is phenomenal
  • banging action and an impressive excursion into the mirror dimension
  • many future MCU spoilers and an exciting cliffhanger at the end


Neutral:
  • merging with the non-MCU Spider-Man films (enriches the story, but feels somehow wrong to bring back these old characters)


Negative:
  • letting May die (in this way), only to give him his own "with great power comes great responsibility" moment.
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Don't Look Up (2021)
5/10
An outrageous but terrifyingly believable story about human stupidity and ignorance
9 January 2022
Positive:
  • the film raises important issues that describe the current social situation and the failure of media


Negative:
  • too long
  • exaggerated and painful humor
  • ridiculous end that fails to convey a convincing message.
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7/10
Starts leisurely, but explodes into a peerless action spectacle towards the end
19 December 2021
Positive:
  • breathtaking action choreography (fast-paced and spectacular fights in anime style that still don't seem unrealistic, including original techniques and sets)
  • besides the action you will also be faced with tragedy, anger, despair, loss and and inner conflicts


Negative:
  • flat and clumsy script that makes the film too long and very slow-moving at the beginning
  • no serious character expression apart from Kenshin (the characters look blank if you haven't seen the predecessors)
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Eternals (2021)
8/10
Epic and excellently staged superhero film, but using the usual MCU scheme does more harm than good
13 December 2021
Positive:
  • gripping action scenes
  • impressive backdrops and breathtaking images
  • immediately emotional despite numerous new heroes
  • refreshing dramaturgy with clever twists and no typical CGI orgy as a finale


Negative:
  • the integration of MCU-typical humour and all sorts of allusions feels forced and wrong in addition to the epic narrative and spherical style. As a standalone film "Eternals" would have been more rounded.
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7/10
Respect that the version was realized, but it's still an exhausting four-hour monster that actually doesn't benefit anyone except the few who demanded it
10 October 2021
Positive:
  • great entertainment
  • thrilling superhero story that's taught like a great fairytale
  • new look, background stories, supporting characters and ending
  • enough backstory for every hero, so you can identify with them when they finally step onto the team pitch


Negative:
  • seems endless (and partially pointless)
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Tenet (2020)
9/10
Cinema is not dead! - this philosophical experiment proves to be another Nolan-masterpiece
3 October 2021
Positive:
  • unique & overwhelming action spectacle, with strong staging that deserves the big screen
  • cool cast
  • film music / soundscape


Neutral:
  • not always easy to understand the complex plot of the film, which at the same time makes it great


Negative:
  • nothing.
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Greenland (2020)
6/10
Chaos and destruction only as a backdrop to the story of a family's desperate survival
3 October 2021
Positive:
  • emotions and tension instead of pure doomsday
  • the focus is on the human scale of a crisis, which makes this a realistic feeling rarity of a disaster film
  • strong main actor pair


Negative:
  • too many plot twists and always new obstacles to overcome
  • in some moments a bit rough
  • not consistently convincing CGI effects
  • unfortunately genre-typical heroic towards the end.
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6/10
Toughness, coolness, wit - better than its predecessor
27 September 2021
Positive:
  • punchy humor, surprisingly great emotions and still an excellent chemistry between Smith and Lawrence
  • fresh characters


Negative:
  • with the excessive action and violence, the film sometimes overshoots the target
  • not every gag fires.
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6/10
Not only sexier and funnier, but also a better film than the first part - but anyone who has no interest in romantic drama anyway can stay away from this
25 September 2021
Positive:
  • the sex is wilder than in the first film and conveys that they really want each other
  • in spite of a lot of drama, inbetween there's good mood and humour


Negative:
  • thanks to the constant back and forth between Tessa and Hardin and a lot of narrative idleness, the film drags on noticeably towards the end.
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Chaos Walking (2021)
8/10
Conceptionally inventive, but possibly a prequel would have been more exciting and could have been the start for a trilogy...
21 September 2021
Positive:
  • top-class cast with two charismatic main roles
  • Todds clumsiness with blurting out things
  • some fascinating ideas and an ingenious visual implementation of the "noise" and some related effects


Negative:
  • many briefly opened storylines which are not actually pursued
  • the filmmakers could have made more out of this actually exciting concept.
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Bloodshot (2020)
6/10
Funny trash
16 September 2021
Positive:
  • entertaining
  • cleverly staged, so you can experience the disorientation of the protagonist
  • play with the question of what is reality
  • Vin Diesel at his best gives the film identity and charisma
  • heavy action sequences
  • futuristic gimmicks and special effects background


Negative:
  • tries to start its own superhero universe, but just recycles a lot of well-known elements
  • underdeveloped script that has no sense of character development, background story or emotions and instead serves dull action and thus does not exploit the potential of the interesting basic idea
  • the secondary characters appear flat
  • partly bad computer effects and too hectically cut scenes.
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6/10
Good approach, but poorly implemented
14 September 2021
Positive:
  • easy-going tone, which gives the film a lively, not too serious energy
  • the pace of the story development


Negative:
  • predictable high school drama story with the gradual change of the main character into a self-confident young woman that has been seen enough times
  • not very well thought out figures
  • disappointing and abrupt finale, that ends the film completely unsatisfactory.
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6/10
Fantasy Monster Scrap, that's not as epic as you'd expect
12 September 2021
Positive:
  • convincing stars
  • sophisticated visuals
  • pretty cool designed gear
  • humorous and enthralling
  • something different


Negative:
  • reduced storyline
  • typical Hollywood ending / showdown.
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5/10
It's what it's trying to be: Trash
3 September 2021
Positive:
  • a few funny scenes


Negative:
  • dramaturgical lean periods
  • really bad actors
  • absurd and silly.
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Into the Beat (2020)
6/10
Disappointing at times, but still quite thrilling
27 August 2021
Positive:
  • great main actors
  • many fresh and varied dance performances
  • good vibes, but also touching moments


Negative:
  • often seen film idea without great surprises
  • overly educational.
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Just Mercy (2019)
10/10
A portrait of injustice
22 August 2021
Positive:
  • Depicts the injustices of the US judicial system and its killing system powerfully by showing the horror of death and how deeply prejudice and racism are rooted in society
  • great acting performances


Negative:
  • nothing.
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Captive State (2019)
7/10
Gloomy, fascinating and strange at the same time - but you'd better wait to see if there's a sequel!
16 August 2021
Positive:
  • clever ideas and gambling with sci-fi elements
  • uniquely designed aliens
  • exciting and unpredictable


Negative:
  • confusing action that requires constant following and thinking
  • no completed story, you are left with a cliffhanger.
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Birds of Prey (2020)
6/10
In some ways it's art, but not a masterpiece overall
11 August 2021
Positive:
  • refreshingly weird with a wide repertoire of everything (tricks, clothing, surroundings)


Negative:
  • tends to exaggeration
  • the lack of a serious plot and even a single charismatic star except Margot Robbie.
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6/10
A completely different film than its predecessor, but also exciting and dynamic
14 June 2021
Positive:
  • well done
  • hard action
  • fantastic performances by Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro


Negative:
  • gloomy-pessimistic mood. Sicario 2 is missing what made the first part: the breath of hope that Emily Blunt exudes in between all the violence and ruthlessness.
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