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The Witcher: Blood Heritage
More than a thousand years before the events taking place inThe Witcher, seven warriors banished from the elven world unite their forces against an all-powerful empire.
Festival of debility and inclusiveness, this spin-off populated by Elfes and a dwarf warrior is of high fantasy anything but enchanting that conspires on its own universe. 🎟️
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On the Line
A radio host's life is upset when an anonymous listener threatens to kill his entire family live. To save his loved ones, he will have to find out who is the hostile interlocutor before the line is cut.
Released early in the year and now available in VOD,On the Lineis a thrilling thriller placing a certainMel Gibson... Impossible to talk about it without deflowering intrigue, impossible not to evoke intrigue to actually dig the film,On the Lineputs us in a critical impasse. We will simply say that the film is surprising, and relies heavily (too much) on its surprises to make us forgive all its awkwardness. A rather dubious return from Mel Gibson than approved. 🎟️🎟️
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Glass Onion: A knife story drawn
Direction Greece for the famous detective Benoit Blanc, who has to elucidate a mystery surrounding a billionaire and his group of colorful friends.
With its small onion casting and stimulating staging, this part ofCluedoin the rich stimuliWhodunit, to break contemporary artifice and unmasking elites. Jubilatory! 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Good Conduct
Pauline has a method of her own to make road prevention: trainer in a point recovery centre by day, she turns into a serial killer of drivers at night.
NewJonathan BarréwithLaure CalamyAs a leading role, it could only be significant. And it must be noted thatGood Conductis a beautiful surprise, mixing genre cinema and pure comedy. Perhaps more was expected – the film being unfortunately too wise – butGood Conductremains a beautiful surprise in the landscape of popular comedies! 🎟️🎟️🎟️
... byMr. Wilkes
Creed III
After having dominated the world of boxing, Adonis Creed flourished both in his career and in his family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long prison sentence, he is eager to prove that he deserves his chance in the ring.
Without glovesRockyThis unifying narrative with new visual ideas confronts its past. And in this fratricidal struggle with angry boxing, the victory by KO is due to an overcut of emotions. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Marry My Dead Body
After finding a strange envelope, policeman Ming-han sees his life slipping into fear: he finds himself married to a ghost with whom he will have to elucidate a crime.
A homophobic cop forced to marry a gay ghost... This is the starting point for this taïwanian comedy, barboulé d'absurde, presented atNIFFFand since available onNetflix. If it goes at a thousand an hour in its first half, chaining moments of tension, action and pure hilarious comedic projections, the bellowsMarry My Dead Bodysomewhat falls back into its second half more mellow and agreed. Still, it's a nice surprise and guaranteed madness! 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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How It Ends
A mysterious apocalypse triggers a wave of misinformation and a deluge of violence. A man, accompanied by a father-in-law of whom he is not close, takes the road and faces chaos to save his pregnant wife from the other side of the country.
In this post-apo road movie where the journey counts more than the destination, the undetermined catastrophe strengthens the relationship of the duo to the tares of America. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Complices
Max, a ruthless 50-year-old hired killer, discovers that he has a problem: he is now sevanotting in front of the slightest drop of blood. So they're going to get help from a couple of young neighbors, Karim and Stephanie, who don't imagine for a moment who they're dealing with...
Comedy rehearsing the codes of the hit hit movie to inject black humor and a good dose of absurd,Complicesof theCécilia Rouaudis a beautiful surprise of this first half of the year. Thanks to the three leading actors –François Damiens, William LebghilandLaura Felpin– and with a very agreed but catchy scenario, we will gladly let ourselves be caught. The right mix between tension scenes and pure comedy allows this feature film to place itself a step above the comedy production mainstream, even though it is clearly regretted its lack of daring. A bit more madness and he could have become a star film of cuvée 2023, a pity. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
From the Louvre to the Palais de Buckingham, from the bas-fonds of Paris to the headquarters of La Rochelle... In a kingdom divided by religious wars and threatened with invasion by England, a handful of men and women will cross their swords and link their destiny to that of France.
Between tribute and dust removal, this cape and sword blockbuster in the pure tradition of the genre sets the powder on fire with a chivalrous fergue and unfeined ambition. Warning! 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Excuse us for the inconvenience.
Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train controller, dreams of being transferred to the south of France. To validate his mutation, he must make a final routine journey under Madeleine's supervision, a slightly sociopath inspector who will not let him go. That's where everything goes wrong...
No, it's not François Bégaudeau who would have gone into the comedy after the success of his podcast, but a new production of the father ofDikkenek. And of embarrassment, God knows if the spectator will experience it throughout the viewing. A pretty reactionary and heavy failure, which should be quickly forgotten: gags that constantly fall flat, sad fate of female characters, heavy product placements... The Belgian is lamentably deplorable and it is at great risk to grant him the excuse requested in the title. 🎟️
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Super Mario Bros, the movie
As they try to repair an underground pipeline, Mario and his brother Luigi, both plumbers, find themselves plunged into a new magical universe through a mysterious conduit. But when the two brothers are separated, Mario engages in a hectic adventure to find Luigi.
Love letter to fans of the franchise, this great family adventure at the level up of technique respects the world of the mustachu plumber with nostalgic charm. It's bob-bomb! 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Lou
A young girl is kidnapped by a huge storm. His mother joins her mysterious neighbor in pursuing the kidnapper. Their journey will put their limits to the test and expose the dark secrets of their past.
Despite a minimalist scenario with known dramatic springs, this rainy manhunt remains an anxiety thriller carried by women who are not afraid to get wet! 🎟️🎟️🎟️
... bythe celest wolf
Barbie (2023)
Parallel to the real world, there is Barbie Land, a perfect world where Barbie dolls live happily, convinced of having made human girls happy. But one day, a Barbie starts asking questions and becoming human...
If it's not plastic (a stunning artistic direction and timely staging), this satire pop with absurd humor that dynamits the ringuard and controversial image of her star doll (the casting is great) to make it a feminist icon opposed to patriarchy, don't stay any lessa giant product placement(mal) camouflaged under a layer of pink glitter. More inclusive and therefore more profitable, no doubt that dollsBarbiewill (re)sold like buns! 🎟️🎟️
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1
Ethan Hunt and his FMI team are embarking on their most perilous mission to date: to track down a dreadful new weapon before it falls into the wrong hands and threatens all humanity. The control of the future and the fate of the world are at stake.
Pure action and palpable tension make sparks in this episode sum of the saga whereEthan Hunt, more bruising than ever, attack the AI not without running amazing stuntsa hell train. While waiting for the rest, this high-flying entertainment already succeeds its mission! 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Tropic
2028, Lazaro and Tristan, are brothers and best friends. One day, Tristan is contaminated with toxic waste that makes him physically monstrous, mentally diminished and fluorescent at night. This catastrophe forced Lazaro to mourn the memory of his brother and learn to love him as he is, in a world where there is no room for monsters...
Overwhelming humanity and visually grandiose (a 16 mm camera capture at the shoulder when the teen fire burns that evolves towards digital 4K stabilized at the hour of responsibility), this family drama on disability (where comes out from the horror body to theCronenberg) imposes itself as a sincere and rarely accurate work with two actors in the firmament. In five chapters mixing rivalry, denial, rejection, hatred and love, it is a magnificent and upsetting story aboutfraternal bondsWe're told. 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Ghosted
Cole, a historyless farmer, falls deeply in love with the mysterious Sadie, but discovers with stupor that she is a secret agent. Even before a second date, Cole and Sadie will be embarked on an adventure beyond the borders when they will have to save the world.
A rom-com action to the fun concept where the buffoonries of secret agents who embrace the clichés meet love in a rain of bullets. Dangerously generic but as charming as its star duo, this impromptu appointment remains very nice. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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AKA
Adam Franco is an undercover agent, doing the dirty job wherever it is necessary. His new mission, to integrate a mafia organization in France to foil a terrorist attack imninent in the capital.
After bothLost ball, the action cinema made in France worn byAlban Lenoir(here in silent bulldozer mode) we come back even more upset with thisMan on Firewith a view to terrorism, where without warning, violence dries and tension on the rope put the screenplay facilities out. 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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The Mother (2023)
A high-threat killer leaves hiding when her former partners kidnap the girl she had to give up years earlier.
As subtle as a Kalashnikov (the antagonists escaped from a bad one)James Bond), this series B lambda with predictable unfolding can nevertheless rely on the love (and the advantageous plastic) of his mother bear badass (the always charismatic «J. Lo») to draw large guns while constantly spreading peripeties conducive to action. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Tyler Rake 2
After miraculously surviving the events of the first phase, the Australian mercenary of the Special Forces Tyler Rake is back on a new perilous mission: to extract from prison the martyred family of a ruthless Georgian gangster.
Left for death, our professional extractor full of testosterone is yet back to dezinguing a rabble of villains in this bourrin actioner straight out of the 1980s. Taking the recipe ofits predecessorby adding an additional soul (which allowsGolshifteh Farahanito exist withChris Hemsworth), this even more ambitious sequel is an adrenaline rush where the scenario is just a pretext for a deluge of action evoking energy and fluidity (especially during the Georgian prison sequencing plan) of the best FPS of its kind. 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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JUNG E
In a post-apocalyptic future, a researcher in a laboratory tries to end a civil war by cloned the brain of a heroic fighter: her mother.
Since the success of his memorable zombie flickLast Train to Busan, youngYeon Sang-hoHas not yet repeated the exploit... And it's certainly not with this overly superficial psychological SF that he might get there! Intriguing on the paper but disappointing on the screen, she only touches on her concept (there is even deceit on the commodity) to turn into the leniency social and family drama that will only muscle at the very end of her program. But as the fighting AI finally wakes up, the spectators may already have fallen asleep, tired of a poorly oiled scenario, stereotyped characters, a manufactured universe and laminated CGI. 🎟️🎟️
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Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
In the fascist Italy of the 1930s, a wooden puppet that takes life dreams of becoming a real little boy. But as she struggles to live up to her father's expectations, she's just making mistakes and playing bad tricks...
Final part of a trilogy initiated withDevil's echine(2001) and continued withThe Labyrinth of Pan(2006), this truestop-(e)motion jewelsigned by the enchanterGuillermo Del ToroReappropriate the famous tale to plead for disobedience! Because in a country in the midst of fascisation, who is the authentic puppet? Not the creature (similar here to theFrankenstein monster) born of grief in any case, whose tragico-played adventure with macabre tone wonders what makes a humanity. Impressive on the technical level and relevant in his review of the children's novelCarlo Collodi, this tender and cruel charm awakens as many laughs as tears. 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Peter Pan and Wendy
Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave the family home, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. With her brothers and the fairy Clochette, she travels with Peter in the magical world of the Imaginary Country and meets there the evil Captain Crochet.
Having known for the second time to impose his foot at Disney,David Lowery (Peter and Elliott the dragon, The Green Knight) signs a contemporary rereading in which women emancipate (Wendy is now the heroine of his own story) and in which Peter Pan, a scornful, arrogant and selfish young man, is stolen the star by Hook (well encamped byJude Law), a sad and sinister man who lost his mother. Melancholic and minimalist, this visually clean live-action remake (a few SFX) that prefers to play the map of maturity in its reconstruction of the myth, thus favors a morose gravity to the usual magic of the places. Besides, despite songs sung here and there, she misses a bit of fairy dust to really take off. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
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