Sometimes less is more. With this film, Liam Neeson managed to resuscitate his action career, which had started to drift dangerously into purely B-movie action waters like Steven Seagal and others. In the Land of Saints and Sinners may have a straightforward plot and a predictable scheme, but it's also a beautifully…

Unnecessarily long and complicated witchcraft. Either give the cast with interesting characters or shorten it because I regularly fell asleep during some episodes. The last two episodes, however, ran like clockwork. Not that I liked everything I was getting, but it had momentum and was interesting. Kathryn Hahn and…

An average film about a mythical creature that makes itself known when fishermen start using dynamite; not the natives, of course, they know full well what lurks beneath the surface. The owner of a hotel decides to use the rumours about a monster to lure a large group of tourists, which she actually succeeds in doing.…

Formally, there is nothing to complain about. The Apprentice is beautifully seventies/eighties with a VHS patina and authentic footage of New York at the time. It also has great verve and is rich both in information and facts and relatively accurate in the first half. The introduction to Roy Cohn is almost from a…

A great mix of breezy political satire and a probe into the highest levels of American government, in which we have the opportunity to chart the rise of one of the most controversial and powerful VPs in US history. Adam McKay tells the story with great pacing and oscillates between satirical comedy, drama and…

The attempt at turning genre clichés upside down is praiseworthy, but the concept of the twist in the introduction comes across as cheap and sets a low bar. The rest of the film isn’t very well directed; though it is occasionally pleasing with an unexpected development, it is devalued by the strange way the actors are…

Psychologically well-developed characters and the typically reliable Nikolaj Lie Kaas, but the script shows its age in terms of genre principles. The film succeeds in confusing the viewer, but it makes the protagonist look slightly dumb as it places us a few steps ahead of him in the area of cleverness. How could he…

An interesting subject with a twist that spurs the viewer’s curiosity, which is later cut dead by the absolutely idiotic behaviour of the characters. Or rather by the absolutely incompetent depiction of their psychology and definition of their personalities on the basis of the past they have lived through, which would…

Well, the distributor definitely tricked me with this one. Lately, it feels like anything can get slapped with the "horror" label, and this film is a prime example. Even calling it a thriller seems generous, since there wasn’t much tension to speak of. The only real suspense came from wondering if the filmmakers would…

What can I say? I’m just genuinely loving this show. The fourth episode held up beautifully against the previous strong ones. I’m totally hooked on these political maneuvers, and this Frankenstein’s monster keeps getting better and better. / Lesson learned: For some people, a simple phone call just won’t cut it.