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Stowaway (2021) 

Engels BLM. A pleasant watch. That’s right, it is strange that he got inside and even survived take off, but otherwise this is a lovely, stylish space exercise. The visually captivating space rope climbing sequence is definitely the high point of the movie. The actors are fine - a decent Netflix offering.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) (serie) 

Engels Action isn’t everything. I’m willing to turn a blind eye to a very poor story rewritten from bioterrorist threat to non-Covid running around Prague, but not to the amateurish directing. I often didn’t understand how the scenes followed each other, who is where and why they do what they do. Mackie is transformed from the likeable Falcon into an unlikeable moralist and unfortunately the writers change him too quickly, sometime in the gap between the last two episodes. Much more interesting is the genesis of U.S. Agent. Bucky’s transformation into a good guy revolves around someone’s grandpa and a notebook with a list of crossed out names. And the formerly excellent Zemo becomes a comic book caricature again. Better screenwriters, better directors. They also need some help with the action scenes: the actors and special effects can’t do it alone. P.S.: GRC is a really dumb abbreviation.

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Nobody (2021) 

Engels A rugged action flick with a great Odenkirk. Nobody has no ambitions to impress with the script, Najšuller serves up brutal, grubby action, carried out by a scruffy old wreck beaten down by family life.

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Králi videa (2020) 

Engels What nostalgia. It took me back to those wonder days of my childhood. Excellent observations and surprising information. But it does omit to mention the main benefit of "speed dubbing" which was the amazingly unreal lines that became folklore amongst my peers. I liked the final comments about crazy men. And the admission by the detective is the icing on the cake.

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The Father (2020) 

Engels A depressing look into almost all of our futures, this time without robots or an atomic holocaust. We don’t even get a chemical weapons attack or a pandemic, but I found this absolutely blood-chilling. Hopkins’ one-man-show about ageing sets off on an adventure journey that you really don’t want to go on. Full of surprises, confusion, a caustic feeling that everybody has turned against you and keep on hiding your wrist watch. Perfect dialogs, precise directing, beautifully sad music.

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Black Mirror - Crocodile (2017) (aflevering) 

Engels Hillcoat’s feeling for image and the naturalistic murders lift Crocodile above mediocre. The confused, rushed decisions and mistakes are excellently acted. While the overall ambiguity is interesting, it does much to wipe out the catharsis needed at the end.

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Blinkende lygter (2000) 

Engels Either this is a gangster movie disguised as a relaxing to meditative re-modeling of life... or it’s the other way round? For some god-forsaken reason, four detectives from Copenhagen open a village pub. Excellently acted characters with an explanatory flashback into their youth makes a perfect sauce leading to a powerful lesson which, despite being a lie,you really want to believe. Jensen knows how to construct stories in an original, down-to-earth and humorous way. The hunter with the machine gun during the finale rocks. You like staring?... Big, fat cow.

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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) 

Engels A cynical parody on murder stories, set in the decadent world of modern art. These picky, snobbish caricatures headed by Gyllenhaal die deserved deaths and it’s quite fun to watch. Gilroy isn’t making a horror here and doesn’t employ any cheap things to shock you, it’s just more of an unnerving movie. Perhaps he is making up for a trauma of childhood when he was told that he’ll never be an artist when he got an F in Art. I wouldn’t look for any deeper meaning here.

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Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 

Engels The tuk tuk is terribly sidelined. That was the only thing that made the trailer any good. Raya is a screenplay mishmash trying so hard to be original, but luckily it remains fundamentally the classic Disney movie that we know and love. An refreshing world full of colors, a funny gang and an ending that looks like it came straight out of Infinity War/Endgame.

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Chaos Walking (2021) 

Engels A super topic, solid acting and wobbly directing. The potential of the depicted world is huge and it’s a shame that it’s not put to full use. Unfortunately you can see that it was reedited and reshot. The ending is particularly shoddy. It definitely doesn’t deserve a complete rejection even though I’d like to see #releasethelimancut, Chaos Walking is too intriguing for that. I’ll try the books.

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