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Palmer (2021)
7/10
A variation..
6 February 2024
Of Charlie Chaplins The Kid. A nice and emotional movie. What I don't like are the romanticising south and under play the countywide conservative evangelic behaviour. Yes, there are scenes - including grandma exchange scene - but as I wrote, against revenge and resentful are always showing "beauty".

What I really enjoy are the acting of the main character and the boy. More than entertaining. Timberland provide a solid and believable character. I also don't like normality hand held camera. But this are the first one I really enjoy it and it fits to the story. It underlines the raff side of the story.
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Bodies (2023)
9/10
A show ...
19 October 2023
I expect to see on Apple TV. In th last couple of month Netflix release mostly social media style shows and movies. This show is totally differed and after canceling 1899 a surprise as mystery thriller based on a comic. 1 murder victim and 4 time lines with clear different production design and colouring. A dense production based on excellently written scripts. Compliments to the director. None of this would have been possible if the cast had not been so fortunate. Especially the choice of the 4 detectives is phenomenal. A joy of acting down to the smallest supporting role. Even though the composition of the pictures is in the finest cinemascope, I would have wished for a corresponding camera here as well as in the setting of the various time series, but that is complaining on a high level. A happy hand also with the soundtrack.

The episodes fly by and the nice thing is, like a good book, you can watch the show more than once. Then you'll definitely get more of the little Easter eggs. The scene changes between the timelines are wonderful.

I am thrilled..
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9/10
New promising chapter
2 February 2023
A wonderful story about loss and finding. About the destruction and lack of cultural empathy of friends. Tells you the strength and weaknesses of a woman. The inability to recognise alliances in the sense that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. No Marvel film I know of to date has dared to tell such a complex story, which is good for the series. The hope of an action overloaded film a la Avenger is not fulfilled here. With this film, a new promising chapter has been added to the MCU. Let's hope that the makers, like the moviegoers, have the courage to get involved, it would be worth it. Away from pure comic entertainment, towards more depth.
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The Northman (2022)
10/10
Outstanding ...
26 July 2022
.... Masterpiece.

Perfect script. Beautiful camera light and production design. Perfect casting. I didn't find anything what I didn't like.

Even the music works perfekt with this the minimalism of drums and strings.
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Eternals (2021)
7/10
Not every director ...
29 January 2022
... has the quality to write and direct a superhero movie and that is the main problem. The overall story is quit interesting but there is no thrill in the storytelling. The very slow cutting, I.e. The most boring Bollywood dance cinematographic I ever see. Even the character building maybe is now one the cutting room floor.
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Black Box (2021)
9/10
Inspiriert by the boing 737 max desaster?
17 January 2022
Pierre Niney is probably the most exciting French actor at the moment, and not just since his portrayal of YSL. Here is another film with his forceful acting, even if the thrilling movie has its lengths.
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10/10
Directors Cut
21 March 2021
That's the directors cut of the movie I want to see in the theatre. O hope that is a lesson of learning believe into the directors vision. After Sense8 the fans show how successful can be a vision and story movie. The movie set a landmark that the story and characters coming before action. Not action and gadgets. This director version are an fist on the studio and producers who not looking out of the box.

The most important and are also, from my point of view, to restore the Snyderverse and show us - the movie lover, the DC fans - the rest of his vision. The success of this movie dictate the direction. #RestoreTheSnyderverse
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8/10
Hommage
14 March 2021
That's the kind of Hommage only Spanish cinema can produce. A love letter send by a thrilling comedy mystery envelope. Knowledge test for Comic, fantasy, SiFi fans. The movie is pure fun to see.
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9/10
Teaser
16 January 2021
The story and history moments need much much more space. Since David Leans Passage to India there no other film show with respect to India's tragic and the English colonial Arroganz. The movie try to summarise this moments, but far from the epic scale and possibilities of this story. I can't say if the director, script or camera fail, what I can say, the movie are a teaser of possibilities. A test screening of an perfect cast. But at the end I give the movie 9 stars for the best teaser movie I have seen.
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Bridgerton (2020– )
8/10
Wonderful.....
10 January 2021
... and fresh show within an outstanding script and production. Underline with actress and actors .... you can see in every frame the joy acting. The soundtrack are the top cerry of a wonderful entertaining cake show. A wonderful season 1 and I can't wait to see season 2. Hopefully again with such a brilliant cast and production team. Yes, I love the cast. This is not a history pic., this is entertaining at his best.
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The Expanse: Tribes (2021)
Season 5, Episode 6
9/10
Lisen ....
9 January 2021
... and learn. Th writers room design the chessboard. All figures are in place for the finally 4 episode's. It is an intelligent acting and dialog episode. The strategy of the last episode of the turns in to a very special and rich an possibility turns.

This episode shows as some very acting qualities of our beloved character and a very sensible Director and camera work.
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8/10
mucho sentimiento
17 October 2020
This can only made by Latin American and Spanish cinema. Drama at Francos time. Father agains son. Son against mother. Spanish against Mexican. It's not a movie for people who has no love for Spanish Latin American cinema. It's not Hollywood. It's drama. A drama at a time against the only family. Agains Liberty and agains people who has a different model life. The characters are Black and White. "What is it to wake up every morning and to no you life a live of lie"

Denali , self-abandonment and recognition.
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Young Wallander (2020–2022)
9/10
Adam Pålsson ...
3 September 2020
... who plays the young Wallander are the perfect cast. After seeing the first 4 episode I like his acting and first link to the Wallander from the original novels and Swedish TV show. That the show are based not in the 70s underline the actuality of the story and makes it more interesting. We know the end of Wallander's life and I like the idea of how it all started. More like other shows.
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9/10
A wonderful Dickens adaptation💙
30 June 2020
What a funny, lovely wicked movie. A dream off a cast and a joy of acting. I think they had a lot of fun at the set, you see it it in every frame of the movie. The set, the stage wonderful setup a a camera who catch it all. A pur romantic score frame perfectly the movie. Overall the crew and the cast present a fin and entertaining movie.

But it is interesting to read the comment on IMDB that many of the English have a problem wit the main actor. Why? He is not blond, blue eye and white. But the Charakter are perfect cast. As young boy and adult. Personally I like his acting since I saw him in Newroom. Pev Patel.
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Perry Mason: Chapter One (2020)
Season 1, Episode 1
8/10
Great
24 June 2020
It's not the copy and past version of the old show. God so. I love the odea of a younger and unconventional PM. The good thing of the format are the tell us a story like a novel. So we have time over 8 episode to see the main characters are growing or chancing.

I like the 30 Hollywood styling of the show and the perfect product design.

What a wonderful cast. U can see the fun they have playing her own character and play together. It's the time if depression and the dark brain lighting lets smell the dust. It's not the time of clean tie lawyer, but start a carrier or the walk into an area with white clean shirts and suits. A good and interesting first chapter. Can't wait to see the next.
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Artemis Fowl (2020)
8/10
Cinema
12 June 2020
If u take a plant into a very small pot. The plant will be little and can't bloom. It's a cinema movie. Not made for pocket home streaming. A wonderful made family movie.
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8/10
Wow
11 June 2020
Saw it 1st time. Better as I expect. Good script & Story. The last approx. 20 min are the finest of the entire franchise. Script. Acting. Staging.
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Harry Brown (2009)
10/10
Oppressive
10 June 2020
A 1st class class cast and acting. Specially Michael Caine. The man has a senior acting quality makes me speechless. The scenes with Emily Mortimer are the best. Staggering. Young Sean Harris (M:I 5&6, Borgia) intense performance as drug dealer, award-winning. Footnote: Ian Glen (GoT) as arrogant S. Childs.Camera reminds me of Se7en. Vale and watch. Even the pic. with warm colour are cold and frozen. I think director Daniel Barber give the cast a lot of freedom for own ideas and improvisation. That is an impressive thriller. The action comes from the acting and the story and not by special effects and CGI entertaining.
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Harry Brown (2009)
10/10
Oppressive
10 June 2020
A 1st class class cast and acting. Specially Michael Caine. The man has a senior acting quality makes me speechless. The scenes with Emily Mortimer are the best. Staggering. Young Sean Harris (M:I 5&6, Borgia) intense performance as drug dealer, award-winning. Footnote: Ian Glen (GoT) as arrogant S. Childs.

Camera reminds me of Se7en. Vale and watch. Even the pic. with warm colour are cold and frozen.

I think director Daniel Barber give the cast a lot of freedom for own ideas and improvisation.

That is an impressive thriller. The action comes from the acting and the story and not by special effects and CGI entertaining.
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8/10
Important
19 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Any movie arroz d the history of the holocaust are important. The main question are.... documentary Stil or emotional style, specially if I tell the the story in the silver screen. This movie are very balanced. Not a overloaded drama on one hand. On the other not dry and fact driven like a documentary. That makes the movie interesting, the distance. The trained emotional controll of the character. Ben Kingsley Eichmann acting And dialogs are so close to the court documents. It makes me freeze. The dry stating reminds me of the wording from Hanna Arendt: the banality of evil. That is exactly what I see in the movie. Eichmann was never the drama personality he was the bureaucrat. The focus of the story are what happen after the kidnapping. That's the instance moment. That's are the drama.
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8/10
Fresh reboot
18 April 2020
Wonderful mad reboot. Fresh story story with the result the like to entertain. The actors take her character not so serious. The direction without frills and funny linear story telling are in total opposite of the exhausted and strained man spy body movies. I like the 2 hour entertainment and I hope the same crew behind and in front of the camera comes back.
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Westworld: Parce Domine (2020)
Season 3, Episode 1
9/10
Perfect start
30 March 2020
Good storyline. Fast and delightful cutting. Outstanding camera and lighting. Perfect season start. Tipp: scene after credits
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9/10
Light as a biscuit
22 March 2020
Based on th the German stage musical and the songs from Udo Jürgen. A wonderfully feel good movie. That is what are u see, a cast who lives the play a lovely production. This movie has the heart of "let me entertain you" as goal and that is exactly what he is doing. No more no less. Wonderful.
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Judy (II) (2019)
10/10
Sensational
13 December 2019
I was a little bit nervous reading she play a bio pit of iconic Judy Garland, but I had in the same moment trust in her art, specially after seeing Mr. Potter. She takes very serious to the character she plays, specially to historical character.

Best Bio-movie since Chaplin of an actor or actress.

What I fine performance she show as and bring as Judy closer. Even the sensible and dark side of her personality.
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Anna (II) (2019)
10/10
I need you tonight
24 November 2019
Another Nikita variation. Strong woman. I think he is the only one who can tell this theme from such various angle and thrilling.

This is one of his best script and nothing for audience looking linear popcorn story's.. 3 month before. 6 moth later. etc.

As always a great cast and production team. Including Serra as Score composer. A perfect match since decades. Luc Besson thrillers are a class of his own and this is one of his best. Action, Ironie, French slapstick. Suspense. He can write story's, dialogue and frame then into significant pictures. He is the master of the European cinema. This movie is a perfect example create an variation of an old Thema.

... at 1:10:30 the best misic video ever for IXMS: I need you tonight.
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