Great direction, images and music Excellent personages, dialogues and gender content
“A hymn to teenage idealism and hormones” (Roger Ebert) The usual Lea Pool’s family situations – difficult but crucial mother-daughter relationships and absent fathers – play a role in the background
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,4
Metascore 5,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,9 Average critics 6,5 Average public 7,5
Cast: Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare, Jackie Burroughs
Directed by Lea Pool
Written by Judith Thompson
Music by Robyn Schulkowsky
Cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie
Film Editing by Michel Arcand
Great script, direction and gender content Excellent minority presence and message
This subversive coming-of-age story shows how impermeable to social norms a young girl can be.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 7,9 Average public 7,1
Cast: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano
Director: Léa Mysius
Writers: Léa Mysius, Paul Guilhaume
Music by Florencia Di Concilio
Cinematography by Paul Guilhaume
Film Editing by Pierre Deschamps
“Cafe Funiculi Funicula” by Ayuko Tsukahara (Japan, 2018)
First Feature
Good personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent script
Foreign films sometimes confront us with reactions or expressions that seem strange to us. For example, as a European, I find the reaction of ‘shame’ in American movies – when a man is shocked when he unintendedly sees female nudity – extremely hypocritical, even though I’ve seen it so many times…) Anyway, very little of this in this Japanese movie (except at one moment, with the cat…) A fantasy dealing with mature subjects!
IMDB 6,3
Original title: Kohi ga Samenai Uchi Ni
Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Motoki Fukami,
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara
Writer: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Music by Masaru Yokoyama
Cinematography by Norimichi Kasamatsu
Film Editing by Ryûji Miyajima
Good personages, images, and message
Top minority representation
Although script and direction are at times a bit clumsy, the movie has lots of good things and a good feeling about it A very diversified cast, from beginning to end As for the title, a mysterious choice…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore 4,9
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,6 Average critics 5,8 Average public 7,5
Cast: Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Sharon Lawrence, Kevin Alejandro, Georgia King Director: Vicky Wight
Writer (novel): Katherine Center
Writer: Vicky Wight
Cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik
Editor: Suzanne Spangler
Composer: Sherri Chung
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#14)
First Feature
Good script and gender content Excellent personages, direction, music, message, and expression Top images
The sad story of parents that are confronted with their terminally ill child, told in a very unusual way
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,2
TMDB 6,8 Average critics 8,0 Average public 7,3
Cast: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace
Director: Shannon Murphy
Writer: Rita Kalnejais
Music by Amanda Brown
Cinematography by Andrew Commis
Film Editing by Stephen Evans
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#18)
First Feature
Good script, personages, direction, images, music and minority presence Excellent dialogues, humor and gender content
Original romance setup with excellent dialogues Somewhere disappointing because the movie eventually falls into the trap of the inevitable and too obvious romance
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 6,1 Average critics 6,2 Average public 7,3
Cast: Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Director: Natalie Krinsky
Writer: Natalie Krinsky (screenplay)
Music by Genevieve Vincent
Cinematography by Alar Kivilo
Film Editing by Shawn Paper
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#30)
Good script, personages, direction, dialogues, gender content, and expression Excellent music and message
As in Fina Torres’ first feature Oriana, a story of old houses and love, past and present… In both movies, houses that have to be sold or destroyed escape destruction because of the people who live in them and the stories they hide Also in both movies, a woman torn between the two men she loves… and when she’s asked to choose, she simply decides to keep them both or none of them… Very dynamic direction
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,3
IMDB 6,0
TMDB 7,0 Critics average — Audience average 6,8
Cast: Prakriti Maduro, Yuliet Cruz, Juan Carlos García
Director: Fina Torres
Writers: Jorge Camacho, Julio Carrillo
Music by Barbara Cohen
Cinematography by Héctor Ortega
Film Editing by Robin Katz
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#38)
First Feature
Good script, personages, images, humor, gender content, and expression Excellent direction
Another version of Bonnie and Clyde in which two individuals who haven’t been emotionally close to anyone before find each other and give meaning to each other’s life Very good acting Not a big success: is it because the main male character is impotent? 🙂
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 5,5
TMDB 5,2 Critics average 6,2 Audience average 5,6
Cast: Drew Barrymore, James Le Gros, Robert Greenberg
Director: Tamra Davis
Writer: Matthew Bright
Music by Ed Tomney
Cinematography by Lisa Rinzler
Film Editing by Kevin Tent
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#44)
Good script, personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent gender content and message
The world of dating and sex in the 21st century through the eyes of a thirty-plus guy
One of the few movies that tackles the ‘masculinity problem’ without weighing too much on its toxic aspects
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 0,0
Roger Ebert 0,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 5,8 Average critics 1,8 Average public 6,4
Original title: Te Quiero, Imbecil
Cast: Quim Gutiérrez, Natalia Tena, Alfonso Bassave
Director: Laura Mañá
Writers: Abraham Sastre, Iván Bouso
Music by Javier Bayon, Luc Suarez
Cinematography by Sergi Gallardo
Film Editing by Paula González
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#45)
First Feature
Good direction, images, music, message and expression Excellent personages and gender content
A boy and a girl are attracted to each other but do not know how to get closer Besides, the movie shows with much nuances how difficult it is to be a teenager, when you don’t know who you are, what you want, and you are just as unsure of the others as you are of yourself
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 6,8 Average public 6,3
Cast: Emma Roberts, James Franco, Jack Kilmer
Director: Gia Coppola
Writers: Gia Coppola, James Franco (book)
Music by Devonté Hynes, Robert Schwartzman
Cinematography by Autumn Durald
Film Editing by Leo Scott
Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#48)
Good personages, dialogues, direction, gender content, message, and expression Excellent script
An interesting game of mirrors with one woman having to choose between two men on the one hand, and one man having to choose between two women on the other hand, all of it taking place in the same space and within a couple of days.
Fine acting by Natasha Little
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 6,0 Average critics — Average public 5,9
Cast: Natasha Little, Rupert Penry-Jones, Rachel Blanchard
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Writer: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Music by Kenneth Harrison
Cinematography by Bruce Worrall
Great script, gender content and message Excellent personages, dialogues, direction and images
A movie with some of Catherine Breillat’s favorite themes: female sexuality; lies and sex; age and sex
“On a ship we are above the law” says the young Thomas. It perfectly illustrates this brief encounter between a woman around 30 and a 16 year-old boy as they cross the Channel / him by pretending to be older and saying that she’s his mother to get drinks from the bar / her by pretending that she’s single to catch this minor into her nets The story of a boy who doesn’t know who he can be in front of this experienced and provocative woman / the story of a woman who can be anything she wants in front of this ‘untouched’ boy Despite her feminist discourse, the woman acts like a femme fatale, (beautifully) playing all the tricks she knows to catch her prey… But she honestly warns us: sex is a game of power, and there’s no room in it for tenderness…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,6
IMDB 6,8 Average critics — Average public 7,7
Original title: Brève Traversée
Cast: Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filip
Director: Catherine Breillat
Writer: Catherine Breillat
Music by Patrick Chevalier, D’Julz, Marc Filipi
Cinematography by Eric Gautier
Film Editing by Pascale Chavance
A movie about love and passion and how one can feel passion for someone and
love for someone else
However, according to Catherine Breillat, sexual passion wins in the long run.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 7,8 Average public 6,5
Original title: Une Vieille Maitresse
Cast: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud
Written and directed: Catherine Breillat
Based on the novel by Barbey D’Aurevilly
It is only very recently that we became conscious of the fact that older people too have a love and a sex life! It is certainly interesting to see more of it on the screen… However, not much else to get excited about this movie
IMDB 6,2
Original title: Oude Liefde
Cast: Hadewych Minis, Halina Reijn, Gene Bervoets
Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk
Writer: Peer Wittenbols
Music by Joris Oonk, Chrisnanne Wiegel
Cinematography by Gregg Telussa
Film Editing by Wouter Jansen
Good personages, dialogues, music, gender content and message Top minority representation
Thanks to its actors and actresses, from this movie emanates purity, transparency and simplicity
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,0 Average critics 6,9 Average public 7,3
Cast: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
Director: Louise Archambault
Writer: Louise Archambault
Music by François Lafontaine
Cinematography by Mathieu Laverdière
Film Editing by Richard Comeau
Good script, images, and music Excellent personages, direction, and minority presence Top humor
Very original and funny, combining all sorts of styles without loosing its own voice
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 7,2 Average public 7,1
Original title: Pieds Nus à Paris
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Writers: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Cinematography by Claire Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier
Film Editing by Sandrine Deegen
Good script and minority representation Excellent dialogues, images, music and gender content Top direction
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart Director: Autumn de Wilde Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Good dialogues and music Excellent script, personages, direction, images, gender content and message
The story of the March sisters with sharpened edges, especially in relationship to women’s financial independence A ‘long’ feature (more than 2 hours) that allows a good buildup of strong relationships between the personages
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 8,2 Average critics 9,2 Average public 8,6
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, James Norton, Louis Garrel
Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Greta Gerwig, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Nick Houy
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Good images, gender content and minority presence Excellent script, personages, dialogues and direction
Top music
Agnes Jaoui’s characters remind me of bumper cars: they change direction every time they run into someone! As in her first feature, Jaoui manages to stage successive repressed relational situations without sinking into heaviness Excellent musical score perfectly integrated! “The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they’re more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake.”[Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,9
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 8,1 Average public 7,0
Original title: Comme une image
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grevill, Virginie Desarnauts
Directed by Agnès Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Philippe Rombi
Cinematography by Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editing by François Gédigier
Good personages and content
Excellent script and direction
A good comedy about how we all are victims and sources of prejudice
Another underlying aspect shows the complex relationship artists have with success, which sharply contrasts with how an industrial relates to it.
“One of the delights of “The Taste of Others” is that it is so smart and wears its intelligence lightly.” [Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,5
Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Christiane Millet, Agnes Jaoui, Gerard Lanvin
Directed by Agnes Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Jean-Charles Jarrel
Cinematography by Laurent Dailland
Film Editing by Hervé de Luze
Great remake of Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Just like in the original, cooking food is predominant and it looks really fantastic… With Maria Ripoll, the Taiwanese restraint has been transformed into Latino expressivity, warmth, \and great music
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 5,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 6,6 Average public 7,1
Cast: Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Pena, Paul Rodriguez, Tamara Mello, Raquel Welch, Jacqueline Obradors
Directed by Maria Ripoll
Written by Hui-Ling Wang, Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca, Vera Blasi, James Schamus, Ang Lee
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography by Xavier Grobet
Film Editing by Andy Blumentha
A charming romantic comedy about a man who gets the chance to revisit the past to get rid of his ghosts… Some hiccups in the realization but good acting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 4,3 Average public 6,5
Cast: Douglas Henshall, Lena Headey, Penelope Cruz, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong
Directed by Maria Ripoll
Written by Rafa Russo
Music by Bernardo Fuster, Ángel Illarramendi, Luis Mendo
Cinematography by Javier Salmones
Film Editing by Nacho Ruiz Capillas
“It’s A Wonderful Life” transposed in the 1970s in an African-American community Great singing by Whitney Houston in an entertaining movie that reminds too much of the original but, even though heavily sexualized, pales beside it.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,9
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 5,6 Average critics 6,7 Average public 6,2
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance
Director: Penny Marshall
Writers: Robert Nathan (novel), Robert E. Sherwood, Leonardo Bercovici
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Miroslav Ondrícek
Film Editing by George Bowers, Stephen A. Rotter
Predictable but pleasant story of a Scotsman in San Francisco where his estranged son and grandson live
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,9
Metascore 5,4
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 5,7 Average public 7,1
Cast: Thora Birch, Brian Cox, Tim Matheson, Rosanna Arquette
Directors: Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun
Writers: Michael McGowan, Michal Lali Kagan, Sarah Bellwood
Music by Haim Frank Ilfman
Cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe
Film Editing by Roberto Silvi
A man in a loveless marriage decides to die when his wife breaks his violin… Various styles happily mixed, with lots of surprising images Strong visual expression
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 7,0 Average critics 7,9 Average public 7,1
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Mathieu Amalric, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros Directors: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud,
Writers: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Music by Olivier Bernet
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Stéphane Roche
A weak scenario, a direction without surprises, a boring musical score However, some positive aspects: a younger man falls in love with an older woman / a bilingual movie (she speaks French, he speaks English) Rachel Ward has made more interesting movies (Beautiful Kate, Palm Beach)
IMDB 6,9
Cast: Marie Bunel, Dan Spielman, Julia Zemiro
Director: Rachel Ward
Writer: Blake Ayshford
Cinematography by Germain McMicking
Film Editing by Leanne Cole
The ‘feel’ of this sequel is not to the level of the first one but still some good moments… and much more humor! Aesthetic sometimes primes at the wrong moment.
See the discriminatory disclaimer in the review of the first Stormwind.
IMDB 6.5
Original title: Ostwind 2
Cast: Hanna Binke, Jannis Niewöhner, Marvin Linke
Director: Katja von Garnier
Writers: Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer
Music by Annette Focks
Cinematography by Torsten Breuer
Film Editing by Tobias Haas
Good personages, images and message
Top minority representation
Although script and direction are at times a bit clumsy, the movie has lots of good things and a good feeling about it A very diversified cast, from beginning to end As for the title, a mysterious choice…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore 4,9
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,6 Average critics 5,8 Average public 7,5
Cast: Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Sharon Lawrence, Kevin Alejandro, Georgia King Director: Vicky Wight
Writer (novel): Katherine Center
Writer: Vicky Wight
Cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik
Editor: Suzanne Spangler
Composer: Sherri Chung
A script that could have been developed into a powerful movie but that remains superficial and bland – although good screen presence by Grace VanderWaal
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,3
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 5,8 Average public 7,1
Cast: Grace VanderWaal, Graham Verchere, Giancarlo Esposito, Karan Brar
Director: Julia Hart
Writer (novel): Jerry Spinelli
Writer: Kristin Hahn, Jordan Horowitz, Jerry Spinelli
Cinematographer: Bryce Fortner
Editor: Shayar Bhansali, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Composer: Rob Simonsen
Good script Excellent personages, dialogues, humor and message Top direction, images, music, gender content and minority presence
An isolated village in the Kyrgyz mountains: while men drink, women suffer daily abuse but still poetically fantasize about love One of them, married to a religious but violent soldier falls in love with a stranger. They run away… Extraordinary landscapes and traditional music
IMDB 6,4
Original title: Tengri: Le Bleu Du Ciel
Cast: Albina Imasheva, Elim Kalmouratov, Hélène Patarot
Director: Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
Writers: Jean-François Goyet, Azamat Kadyraliev, Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
Music by Birgit Løkke, Nikolai Marousitch
Cinematography by Sylvie Carcedo, Assan Imanaliev
Film Editing by Catherine Quesemand
Good humor and images Excellent personages and direction Top script + content
An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsibility, guilt, honesty, and… A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7 Average critics 8,0 Average public 8,0
Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Good dialogues, humor and music Excellent script, personages, direction and images Top minority presence and message
Great female lead, great humor “Do you think there’s a place where we can meet, not in silence, and not in sound?”
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 8,0
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,5
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 7,6 Average public 7,9
Cast: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Allison Gompf
Directed by Randa Haines
Screenplay by Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
Photographed by John Seale
Edited by Lisa Fruchtman
Music by Michael Convertino
Good script Excellent personages, dialogues, direction, music and gender content Top images and minority presence
On the track of Exhibition, a very complex and extremely dense love story presented in an erupted form (thanks to Joanna Hogg’s long collaboration with editor Helle le Fevre) Intelligent use of a rich musical score (Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,1
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 6,5 Average critics 9,1 Average public 5,7
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton Director: Joanna Hogg Writer: Joanna Hogg Cinematographer: David Raedeker Editor: Helle le Fevre
Good script, dialogues, humor, music and message Excellent direction and minority presence Top personages and images
Two retired men in Florida form a friendship despite their differences A touching movie on old age and loneliness / Great acting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,9
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 8,1 Average critics 6,7 Average public 7,9
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Robert Duvall, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Harris, Piper Laurie
Directed by Randa Haines
Music by Michael Convertino
Cinematography by Lajos Koltai
Film Editing by Paul Hirsch
Good images, gender content and minority presence Excellent script, personages, dialogues and direction
Top music
Agnes Jaoui’s characters remind me of bumper cars: they change direction every time they run into someone! As in her first feature, Jaoui manages to stage successive repressed relational situations without sinking into heaviness Excellent musical score perfectly integrated! “The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they’re more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake.”[Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,9
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 8,1 Average public 7,0
Original title: Comme une image
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grevill, Virginie Desarnauts
Directed by Agnès Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Philippe Rombi
Cinematography by Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editing by François Gédigier
Good script and minority representation Excellent dialogues, images, music and gender content Top direction
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart Director: Autumn de Wilde Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Good dialogues and music Excellent script, personages, direction, images, gender content and message
The story of the March sisters with sharpened edges, especially in relationship to women’s financial independence A ‘long’ feature (more than 2 hours) that allows a good buildup of strong relationships between the personages
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 8,2 Average critics 9,2 Average public 8,6
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, James Norton, Louis Garrel
Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Greta Gerwig, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Nick Houy
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Great script, personage, dialogues and gender content Excellent direction and images Top minority presence and message
Coming of age? This movie puts it the other way around, as Summer, a 16-year-old girl, wants to fulfill her (contagious) desire to discover the world around her and experience religion (Islam), dance, sex, and everything that triggers her interest. After the necessary clashes, parents and peers eventually support her, understanding that the freedom that is paramount to her age cannot tolerate any compromise. Whose coming of age is it, thus?
Khalil Gibran’s poetic image – children are arrows that parents shoot and have then to follow – comes to mind. Young people show us the way! Today, this could be our new reality: think about Greta Grünberg and many others in Hong-Kong and elsewhere… I love it!
The songs are great, but the constant (and unnecessary) ‘atmosphere’ music deprives the movie of some of its sharpness Great acting by Zoe Renee: “Renee and Missick’s performances are so remarkable and the story is so compelling, I left the movie with a new feeling: hope that audiences watching this movie may be more empathetic towards others’ life changes.” [Monica Castillo]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 5,4 Average critics 8,1 Average public 7,1
Cast: Zoe Renee, Simone Missick, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Dorian Missick, Hisham Tawfiq, Kelly Jenrette, Ashlei Foushee, Damien D. Smith, Maya Morales
Director: Nijla Mu’min
Writer: Nijla Mu’min
Cinematographer: Bruce Francis Cole
Editor: Collin Kriner
Composer: Jesi Nelson
Good script, images, and music Excellent personages, direction, and minority presence Top humor
Very original and funny, combining all sorts of styles without loosing its own voice
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 7,2 Average public 7,1
Original title: Pieds Nus à Paris
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Writers: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Cinematography by Claire Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier
Film Editing by Sandrine Deegen
Good personages and content
Excellent script and direction
A good comedy about how we all are victims and sources of prejudice
Another underlying aspect shows the complex relationship artists have with success, which sharply contrasts with how an industrial relates to it.
“One of the delights of “The Taste of Others” is that it is so smart and wears its intelligence lightly.” [Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,5
Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Christiane Millet, Agnes Jaoui, Gerard Lanvin
Directed by Agnes Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Jean-Charles Jarrel
Cinematography by Laurent Dailland
Film Editing by Hervé de Luze
Good personage, direction and minority presence Excellent music
The journey of a Lebanese young woman who tries to survive as a student in Paris A movie that includes a university lecture on ugliness Appealing, mysterious female lead
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,8
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 6,6 Average public 6,3
Original title: Peur de Rien
Cast: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy
Director: Danielle Arbid
Writers: Danielle Arbid
Cinematography by Hélène Louvart
Film Editing by Mathilde Muyard
A movie that plays around an incestuous relationship but stays on the ‘safe’ side
An interesting script that elaborates complicated relationships around fatherhood Unfortunately, many of its potential are going nowhere The gender definition of the female lead, strong in the beginning, quickly loses its power and impact: once in love, she loses her sharpness Eclectic musical choice
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 6,6 Average public 7,0
Original title: Ôtez-moi d’un doute
Cast: François Damiens, Cécile de France, Guy Marchand
Director: Carine Tardieu
Writers: Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc, Raphaële Moussafir, Carine Tardieu
Music by Eric Slabiak
Cinematography by Pierre Cottereau
Film Editing by Christel Dewynter
Good script, images, and music Excellent personages, direction, and minority presence Top humor
Very original and funny, combining all sorts of styles without loosing its own voice
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,2 Average critics 7,2 Average public 7,1
Original title: Pieds Nus à Paris
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Writers: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Cinematography by Claire Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier
Film Editing by Sandrine Deegen
Good script Excellent personages, dialogues, humor and message Top direction, images, music, gender content and minority presence
An isolated village in the Kyrgyz mountains: while men drink, women suffer daily abuse but still poetically fantasize about love One of them, married to a religious but violent soldier falls in love with a stranger. They run away… Extraordinary landscapes and traditional music
IMDB 6,4
Original title: Tengri: Le Bleu Du Ciel
Cast: Albina Imasheva, Elim Kalmouratov, Hélène Patarot
Director: Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
Writers: Jean-François Goyet, Azamat Kadyraliev, Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
Music by Birgit Løkke, Nikolai Marousitch
Cinematography by Sylvie Carcedo, Assan Imanaliev
Film Editing by Catherine Quesemand
A road movie that brings the hero back to where he started but he’s now a changed man, thanks to his bull
IMDB 6,5
Cast: Young-Pil Kim, Hyo-Jin Kong, Won-Sang Park
Director: Soon-rye Yim
Writers: Kyung-Hee Park
Cinematography by Young-Joon Park
Film Editing by Kyung-Sook Park
Great personages, images and minority presence Excellent script and message
The multi-layer approach brings the viewer close to the personal drama through the (somewhat weak) romance between a Muslimah and an Hindu, to the community level inside the Viceroy’s house; to the national level with the political problems involved with the partition; and briefly to the geopolitical level… Smartly done!
The weak romance story is offset by a good depiction of the historical and political events surrounding the departure of the English from India.
At one moment in the movie, the partition of India is compared to that of Palestine and of Ireland, other British colonies that have suffered greatly. Unfortunately, Chadha does not dig deeper into the subject…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 5,3
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 5,9 Average public 7,0
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Huma Qureshi
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini
Cinematographer: Ben Smithard
Editor: Valerio Bonelli, Victoria Boydell
Composer: A.R. Rahman
Great direction, images and music Excellent personages, dialogues and gender content
“a hymn to teenage idealism and hormones” (Roger Ebert) The usual Lea Pool’s family situations – difficult but crucial mother-daughter relationships and absent fathers – play a role in the background
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,4
Metascore 5,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,9 Average critics 6,5 Average public 7,5
Cast: Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare, Jackie Burroughs
Directed by Lea Pool
Written by Judith Thompson
Music by Robyn Schulkowsky
Cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie
Film Editing by Michel Arcand
Great script, personages, direction, images and minority presence Excellent gender content and message
Just like Little Wing, Stupid Young Heart depicts the difficult life of a teenage girl who tries to find her place in the chaotic world in which she grows up The movie begins slowly but gather emotional speed as the parameters fall into place, and leaves you, despite the perturbing story, on a positive though fragile note, just as in Little Wing.
IMDB 6,3
Cast: Pihla Viitala, Ville Haapasalo, Aamu Milonoff
Director: Selma Vilhunen
Writer: Kirsikka Saari
Cinematography by Lisabi Fridell
Film Editing by Yva Fabricius, Michal Leszczylowski
Great script, personage, dialogues and gender content Excellent direction and images Top minority presence and message
Coming of age? This movie puts it the other way around, as Summer, a 16-year-old girl, wants to fulfill her (contagious) desire to discover the world around her and experience religion (Islam), dance, sex, and everything that triggers her interest. After the necessary clashes, parents and peers eventually support her, understanding that the freedom that is paramount to her age cannot tolerate any compromise. Whose coming of age is it, thus?
Khalil Gibran’s poetic image – children are arrows that parents shoot and have then to follow – comes to mind. Young people show us the way! Today, this could be our new reality: think about Greta Grünberg and many others in Hong-Kong and elsewhere… I love it!
The songs are great, but the constant (and unnecessary) ‘atmosphere’ music deprives the movie of some of its sharpness Great acting by Zoe Renee: “Renee and Missick’s performances are so remarkable and the story is so compelling, I left the movie with a new feeling: hope that audiences watching this movie may be more empathetic towards others’ life changes.” [Monica Castillo]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 5,4 Average critics 8,1 Average public 7,1
Cast: Zoe Renee, Simone Missick, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Dorian Missick, Hisham Tawfiq, Kelly Jenrette, Ashlei Foushee, Damien D. Smith, Maya Morales
Director: Nijla Mu’min
Writer: Nijla Mu’min
Cinematographer: Bruce Francis Cole
Editor: Collin Kriner
Composer: Jesi Nelson
Great script, gender content and message Excellent personages, dialogues, direction and images
A movie with some of Catherine Breillat’s favorite themes: female sexuality; lies and sex; age and sex
“On a ship we are above the law” says the young Thomas. It perfectly illustrates this brief encounter between a woman around 30 and a 16 year-old boy as they cross the Channel / him by pretending to be older and saying that she’s his mother to get drinks from the bar / her by pretending that she’s single to catch this minor into her nets The story of a boy who doesn’t know who he can be in front of this experienced and provocative woman / the story of a woman who can be anything she wants in front of this ‘untouched’ boy Despite her feminist discourse, the woman acts like a femme fatale, (beautifully) playing all the tricks she knows to catch her prey… But she honestly warns us: sex is a game of power, and there’s no room in it for tenderness…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
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Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,6
IMDB 6,8 Average critics — Average public 7,7
Original title: Brève Traversée
Cast: Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filip
Director: Catherine Breillat
Writer: Catherine Breillat
Music by Patrick Chevalier, D’Julz, Marc Filipi
Cinematography by Eric Gautier
Film Editing by Pascale Chavance
Great script, direction and gender content Excellent minority presence and message
This subversive coming of age story shows how impermeable to social norms a young girl can be.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 7,9 Average public 7,1
Cast: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano
Director: Léa Mysius
Writers: Léa Mysius, Paul Guilhaume
Music by Florencia Di Concilio
Cinematography by Paul Guilhaume
Film Editing by Pierre Deschamps
Summarized: only the perfect (male) match can give sense to a woman’s life. No story to be proud of! Just like in Touchy Feely, a female reacts dramatically when her boyfriend offers her to commit herself more fully to their relationship. Adding to the ‘sequel’ feeling, both movies stage an adult female, a teenager, and 2 adult males. In both movies, the “mother” is absent. But instead of defining its personages realistically as they are in Touchy Feely, those in Laggies are inconsistent. A hopefully one-time hiccup in an up-to-now interesting oeuvre.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 6,3
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,4 Average critics 5,8 Average public 6,5
Cast: Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Webber, Ellie Kemper, Jeff Garlin, Kaitlyn Dever
Director: Lynn Shelton
Screenplay: Andrea Seigel
Director of Photography: Benjamin Kasulke
Original Music Composer: Benjamin Gibbard
Great personages, humor, direction and gender content
See next movie Laggies
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,2
Metascore 5,5
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,0
IMDB 5,3 Average critics 5,7 Average public 5,2
Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pais, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Alycia Delmore
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Lynn Shelton
Parallel relationships built between 2 half-sisters and 2 brothers / The father of the 2 half-sisters is evoked as a constant figure, whereas their mothers are replaceable (see Laggies)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 7,2
Average public 6,9
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, Mike Birbiglia
Written and directed by Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Nat Sanders
Great personages, direction, minority presence and message Excellent gender content
Straightforward story of a young Canadian woman of Chinese origin who is torn between obeying her father and lving according to traditions on the one hand, and leading an independant life and following her dreams and instincts on the other hand. As in her next movie, the father perpetuates the patriarchal (Confucian) role model and has the most to lose, namely his honor, whereas the mother would accept the wishes of her daughter, was it not for her duty to blindly follow and support her husband
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,1
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 7,0 Average critics 7,3 Average public 7,1
Cast: Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Alannah On
Director: Mina Shum
Writer: Mina Shum
Music by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Cinematography by Peter Wunstorf
Film Editing by Alison Grace
Great dialogues, images, music, and message Excellent personages and direction Top gender content and minority presence
An 18-year old girl joins a colorful group of girls, and while she skates with them, she learns what friendship means. Cool because the movie shows “a younger generation [of women] that feels empowered to cross boundaries and to make their own world.” [Pat Brown]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 7,3 Average public 7,1
Great dialogues (8) Excellent humor, direction and music (9)
Great musical performances by Tia Carrere
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,0 Average critics 6,7 Average public 7,6
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Writers: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography by Theo van de Sande
Film Editing by Malcolm Campbell
Another “dumb blonde” movie with great dialogues and good acting by Alicia Silverstone However, heavy on traditional gender roles and light on content…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 7,5 Average public 7,3
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
Director: Amy Heckerling
Writer: Amy Heckerling
Music by David Kitay
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Film Editing by Debra Chiate
Discovering sex in high school: another time, another generation
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 2,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 5,3 Average public 7,5
Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold
Director: Amy Heckerling
Writers: Cameron Crowe (screenplay), Cameron Crowe (book)
Cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti
Film Editing by Eric Jenkins
Great script, humor, and direction (8) Excellent dialogues and content (gender + minorities) (9)
A clever mix between a high school romance, a bullied Chinese nerd, lesbian love, and Rostand’s Cyrano’s triangular relationship transposed today, with lots of film and literature references… Makes Fred Schepisi’s Roxanne (1987) suddenly age overnight 🙂 Alice Wu’s second feature, the first one Saving Face was made in 2004.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 7,5 Average public 7,2
Cast: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Collin Chou, Wolfgang Novogratz Director: Alice Wu
Writer: Alice Wu
Cinematographer: Greta Zozula
Editor: Lee Percy, Ian Blume
Composer: Anton Sanko
A movie that has not much to say but with good music and good acting, an easy watch A movie in which women are strong and clear-headed and men are “sorry” for what they do/are
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,1
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,5 Average critics 5,1 Average public 5,5
Cast: Frances Berry, Ryan Bown, Bryan Brown, Richard E. Grant, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi
Director: Rachel Ward
Writers: Joanna Murray-Smith, Rachel Ward
Cinematography by Bonnie Elliott
Film Editing by Nick Meyers
Good script (8) Excellent dialogues, images and music (9) Top direction (10)
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart Director: Autumn de Wilde Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,2
IMDB 7,0 Average critics 7,9 Average public 8,1
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Chloë Sevigny, Bokeem Woodbine Director: Melina Matsoukas Screenplay: Lena Waithe Editor: Pete Beaudreau Director of Photography: Tat Radcliffe Music: Blood Orange
Good personages, dialogues and direction (8) Excellent script (9)
Foreign films sometimes confront us with reactions or expressions that seem strange to us. For example, as an European citizen, I find the reaction of ‘shame’ in American movies – when a man is chocked when he unintendly sees female nudity – extremely hypocritical, even though I’ve seen it so many times…) Anyway, very little of this in this Japanese movie (except at one moment, with the cat…) A fantasy dealing with mature subjects!
IMDB 6,3
Original title: Kohi ga Samenai Uchi Ni
Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Motoki Fukami,
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara
Writer: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Music by Masaru Yokoyama
Cinematography by Norimichi Kasamatsu
Film Editing by Ryûji Miyajima
Surprising script (and direction) in which Keira Knightley fits perfectly Fun!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 5,9
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,7 Average critics 6,5 Average public 6,7
Cast: Steve Carell, Nancy Carell, Keira Knightley, Rob Corddry, Derek Luke, Patton Oswalt
Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria
Music by Jonathan Sadoff, Rob Simonsen
Cinematography by Tim Orr
Film Editing by Zene Baker
Good script and content (8) Excellent direction (9)
A movie that shows how a long winter (with snow melting everything into a colorless nature) brings people to do the craziest things A movie in which Fins either drink to death or flee their country A movie in which an Iraqi refugee brings some ‘value’ into the decadent/hopeless life of a Finnish woman who spends her time drinking and partying Great Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,9 Average critics 7,4 Average public 6,9
Cast: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola
Director: Miia Tervo
Writer: Miia Tervo
Music by Jaakko Laitinen, Lau Nau
Cinematography by Arsen Sarkisiants
Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Ambitious script that loses its focus with too many subplots Uninspired direction + Olivia Thirlby does not have the stature for such a role
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 5,8 Average critics 6,0 Average public 7,0
Cast: Olivia Thirlby, Justine Cotsonas, Megan Fox
Director: Claudia Myers
Writer: Claudia Myers
Music by Kaki King
Cinematography by Eric Robbins
Film Editing by Kathryn J. Schubert
Good dialogues, music, and content (8) Excellent script, personages, direction, and images (9)
The story of the March sisters with sharpened edges, especially in relationship to women’s financial independence A ‘long’ feature (more than 2 hours) that allows a good buildup of strong relationships between the personages
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 8,2 Average critics 9,2 Average public 8,6
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, James Norton, Louis Garrel
Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Greta Gerwig, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Nick Houy
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Good script and content (8) Excellent personages, dialogues, direction and music (9) Top images (10)
On the track of Exhibition, a very complex and extremely dense love story presented in an erupted form (thanks to Joanna Hogg’s long collaboration with editor Helle le Fevre) Intelligent use of a rich musical score (Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,1
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 6,5 Average critics 9,1 Average public 5,7
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton Director: Joanna Hogg Writer: Joanna Hogg Cinematographer: David Raedeker Editor: Helle le Fevre
A college romantic comedy Chinese style, with all the clichés you can imagine, but in a refreshing setting: worth a look, despite the disappointing end Nice performance by Vivian Sung
IMDB 6,7
Cast: Vivian Sung, Weilong Song, Yen-Jou Lin
Directors: Mengying Dai, Tong Zhou
Writers: Mengying Dai, Wanyue Zhang
Music by Chris Hou
Cinematography by Sam Hu
Film Editing by Derek Hui, Yuan Zhou
Lacks the intricated complexity of previous works The movie only ennumerates the gender and cultural ‘bias’ of a people in the eyes of a Westerner, and with its one-sided colionatist approach, it makes a strange follow-up to Even The Rain.
IMDB 6,1
Cast: Verónica Echegui, Sumyata Bhattarai, Norbu Tsering Gurung
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Writers: Icíar Bollaín, Paul Laverty
Music by Pascal Gaigne
Cinematography by Antonio Riestra
Film Editing by Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Good script, personages, dialogues, direction, images and content (8)
Elliptic but well constructed story, emotionally interesting; good dialogues
IMDB 7,1
Cast: Ramon O. Torres, Myles Clohessy, Gabriel Sloyer
Director: Jaki Bradley
Writer: Ramon O. Torres
Music by Jim Brunberg, Benjamin Landsverk
Cinematography by Alexa Wolf
Film Editing by Ramon O. Torres, Nadia Zoe
Remake of “Antonia” transposed in California today
Despite the fantastic acting by Shirley MacLaine, the movie misses (too) much of the content and atmosphere of the original Dutch version
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 6,1 Average critics — Average public 7,3
Cast: Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Marleen Gorris
Writer: Katherine Fugate
Music by Steve Bartek
Cinematography by John Peters
Film Editing by Alan Heim, Michiel Reichwein
Cast: Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric da Silva, Sandrine Blancke
Director: Agnès Merlet
Writers: Santiago Amigorena, Agnès Merlet
Music by Bruno Coulais
Cinematography by Gérard Simon
Film Editing by Pierre Choukroun, Guy Lecorne
Cast: Shelley Long, Emma Bell, Hope Lauren
Director: Morgan Dameron
Writer: Morgan Dameron
Music by Chris Westlake
Cinematography by Jordan McNeile
Film Editing by Nate Orloff
Cast: Ramon O. Torres, Myles Clohessy, Gabriel Sloyer
Director: Jaki Bradley
Writer: Ramon O. Torres
Music by Jim Brunberg, Benjamin Landsverk
Cinematography by Alexa Wolf
Film Editing by Ramon O. Torres, Nadia Zoe
A college romantic comedy Chinese style, with all the clichés you can imagine, but in a refreshing setting: worth a look, despite the disappointing end Nice performance by Vivian Sung
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,7 Average critics — Average public 6,7
Cast: Vivian Sung, Weilong Song, Yen-Jou Lin
Directors: Mengying Dai, Tong Zhou
Writers: Mengying Dai, Wanyue Zhang
Music by Chris Hou
Cinematography by Sam Hu
Film Editing by Derek Hui, Yuan Zhou
If you don’t know what’s the difference between a boy wearing a skirt, a transvestite, and a drag queen, this movie is a fun place to learn (despite the weak script).
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,2
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,6 Average critics 5,8 Average public 7,1
Cast: Stockard Channing, Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo
Directed by Beeban Kidron
Written by Douglas Carter Beane
Music by Rachel Portman
Cinematography by Steve Mason
Film Editing by Andrew Mondshein
Good humor and images (8) Excellent personages and direction (9) Top script + content (10)
An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsability, guilt, honesty, and…
A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7 Average critics 8,0 Average public 8,0
Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Good images (8) Excellent script, personages, dialogues, direction (9)
Agnes Jaoui’s characters remind me of bumper cars: they change direction every time they run into someone! As in her first feature, Jaoui manages to stage successive repressed relational situations without sinking into heaviness Excellent musical score perfectly integrated! “The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they’re more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake.”[Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,9
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,8 Average critics 8,1 Average public 7,0
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grevill, Virginie Desarnauts
Directed by Agnès Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Philippe Rombi
Cinematography by Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editing by François Gédigier
Good personages, content (8)
Excellent script, direction (9)
A good comedy about how we all are victims and sources of prejudice
Another underlying aspect shows the complex relationship artists have with success, which sharply contrasts with how an industrial relates to it.
“One of the delights of “The Taste of Others” is that it is so smart and wears its intelligence lightly.” [Roger Ebert]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,2 Average critics 7,7 Average public 7,5
Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Christiane Millet, Agnes Jaoui, Gerard Lanvin
Directed by Agnes Jaoui
Written by Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Music by Jean-Charles Jarrel
Cinematography by Laurent Dailland
Film Editing by Hervé de Luze
Good script and content (8) Excellent direction (9)
A movie that shows how a long winter (with snow melting everything into a colorless nature) brings people to do the craziest things A movie in which Fins either drink to death or flee their country A movie in which an Iraqi refugee brings some ‘value’ into the decadent/hopeless life of a Finnish woman who spends her time drinking and partying Great Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,9 Average critics 7,4 Average public 6,9
Cast: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola
Director: Miia Tervo
Writer: Miia Tervo
Music by Jaakko Laitinen, Lau Nau
Cinematography by Arsen Sarkisiants
Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Although not always realistic, this subversive coming of age story shows how impermeable to social norms a young girl can be.
Cast: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano
Director: Léa Mysius
Writers: Léa Mysius, Paul Guilhaume
Music by Florencia Di Concilio
Cinematography by Paul Guilhaume
Film Editing by Pierre Deschamps
Good script and personages, great acting, but fizzles out in the end
Cast: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma
Director: Amanda Sthers
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Music by Matthieu Gonet
Cinematography by Régis Blondeau
Film Editing by Nicolas Chaudeurge
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Lauren Holly. Alan Alda
Directed by Nancy Meyers
Written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, Diane Drake
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Film Editing by Thomas J. Nordberg, Stephen A. Rotter
Great direction, images and music
Good minority presence
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