Rating: 2.5★
When Disney announced that The Mandalorian would be making the leap from Disney+ to the big screen, the reaction was roughly split between cautious optimism and weary scepticism. The series had been a genuine bright spot in the post-Rise of Skywalker wilderness, winning over audiences with its stripped-back,
Rating: 2.5★
By 1928, Buster Keaton had spent the better part of a decade building one of the most remarkable bodies of work in American cinema. Films like The General and Sherlock Jr. had established him not merely as a popular comedian but as a genuinely inventive filmmaker, someone who understood the
1960s
Viy (1967) is a strange and almost solitary object in Soviet cinema: a horror film, an actual horror film with monsters and demons and supernatural set-pieces, in a national cinema that mostly didn’t make horror at all. Officially endorsed by Mosfilm and based on a Nikolai Gogol folktale,
1950s
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) is the studio’s middle-period work par excellence: technically polished, commercially tested, narratively cautious, and just slightly off. Made between two of Disney’s commercial successes (Cinderella in 1950, which had rescued the studio from one of its periodic financial near-misses, and
Genre Family
★★½ — Wonder (2017)
Genre Horror
★★½ — Nightmare City (1980)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Genre Adventure
★★½ — The Eagle (1925)
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — The Long Walk (2025)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Italianamerican (1974)
Genre Thriller
★★½ — Angst (1983)
Genre Crime
★★½ — Cairo Station (1958)
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