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It's a bit hammy in the details and feels a bit too funny in places, and the "run-up" before the film moves into the arena is also endless, but the characters and especially the final twist won me over 100% even after all these years. A good teen flick from my younger years that entertains.

As much as I love the Wayans family, this is a piece of shit. It's a huge dud, I didn't laugh once and the whole thing is drastically embarrassing. It's hard to tell if it's the poor filmmaking or the unrewarding and difficult to handle theme, either way the result is a terrible bore.

Imaginative, scary, atmospheric and technically great! This six-minute terror of an unknown "woman" in the middle of a family's dinner is, in the end, a brisk short that lacks perhaps only the addition of a backstory of the characters, what is actually going on here and why - if I got that, I wouldn't hesitate to fire full score.

An atmospheric and visual horror orgy, and a result just as excellent as the feature film Smile. No wonder the company gave the project the green light after this short. Smile is for me one of the top horror films of recent years and this "predecessor" is just further proof of that.

I believe that at the time it was released, it was a fine innovative blockbuster that managed to shock. Today, however, Independence Day doesn't impress at all, because we've seen everything in it a thousand times and better. The acting is average, the visuals were fine for the time, but today they are rather laughable, and the completely formulaic plot doesn't add to its appeal either. Roland Emmerich's sci-fi vision, which he spins over and over again in each of his films, also slowly comes across as his pure egotism and personal ambition to make films "for himself", I guess I can't really explain it any other way. I was thinking that this particular piece is quite famous, well-known and praised, but for me it's just a below average misstep that I'd rather not remember tomorrow.

A boring and cringe version of Avengers from Wish for elementary school kids. And what's worse than unconvincing, bland wannabe superhero action? 130 minutes of unconvincing, bland wannabe superhero action! Because Shazam! Fury of the Gods has everything it shouldn't have, and nothing it should. The humour has completely disappeared compared to the first one and there is not not a single wisecrack, the main gang is extremely uninteresting and the trio of villains is perhaps the most ridiculous in the history of the genre. Sorry, but three "evil sisters", one a 15 year-old Indian, one a 50 year-old Asian and the third a 150 year-old granny, I can't that seriously. Add to that the superb awkwardness of the script, the inability to think logically from all sides and a total shitfest resembling a B-movie parody and the result is in. An extreme flop on all counts and I'm actually not surprised anymore. Slowly but surely this genre is going down the shitter...

In its individual elements, i.e. the look of the box, the idea and the element of the "circle" before the finale, the film is engaging and entertaining enough, but as a whole it's "just" a normal short that could use a little more life.

Renfield is simply an unpretentious, unserious and easygoing gag combining dracula, black humour, mafia and a straightforward story into a brisk 90-minute film that was over before I even looked at my watch. Surprisingly, the lead role is stolen by the duo of Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina, while Nicolas Cage is more of a supporting character, but otherwise it's an "okay" mix of humor, heaps of dynamic action, severed limbs, and cheap fake blood. Renfield is definitely not a blockbuster, on the contrary it's more of a cheap B-movie average, but nobody probably expected an Oscar contestant here, and if you just want to switch off and have nothing to prick at, this is a good choice. That said, I can't help feeling that Renfield is too ordinary, I expected the humour to be much more daring and its overall blandness makes it a (below) average one-off that I won't remember after a week and which I'm currently enjoying, but I probably wouldn't recommend a cinema visit and I would wait for the online version.

Family Dinner is an aspiring cheap B-movie that rather than filmmaking quality relies on the fun of the director's debut and a fairly novel idea. Don't expect any gore, cannibalism, horror or any brutality, on the contrary it's a very intimate and slow-paced mix of psychological obfuscation, keeping the viewer wondering what’s going on and a bit of that suspense at the end. Maybe it's the B-movie look and the "non-actors" that give the film a bit of that realism and make you feel "yeah, this could happen", thus gaining some sympathy from a small group of viewers, but for the classic mainstream consumer this is more of a step off and can definitely skip this one. Otherwise, it's down to the wire if you'll like this intimate, unconventional style. For me 2/3 - it's weaker and I was expecting more psycho terror, but it's got something going for it.

65 reasons why we can skip this movie. My interest in the film waned as quickly as it grew after watching the fantastic trailer, and that is a big problem. The story is naught, but I wasn't expecting that here. What I instead expected and wanted was a visual orgy, dinosaur fights and a great Adam Driver in the lead role, but the action is boring to the point of being horrible, the scenery doesn't dazzle, there is no spectacular sci-fi to speak off, and in a field of such a bland film and such a flat character, even Driver has nothing to work with. And the fact that the film doesn’t even tell us WHAT and WHY is actually going on here doesn't add much to the rating either. The second star is actually only for the fact that at least the dinosaurs look pretty decent and don't look like cheap CGI, otherwise it's a completely pointless, uninnovative and skippable flick…