Suffer in illusions

A standard thriller with a comedic undertone. There's nothing terribly bad to say about this, but nothing good either. A movie that you might remember seeing years later and say it was probably okay, but you don't want to watch it again. A young man thinks he witnesses a kidnapping, but the cops don't believe him, so his next-door neighbor helps him finding the missing person. Pretty useless entertainment. 

Red sky at night

In the hustle and bustle of Tango Festival in Seinäjoki, Finland, the former tango singer meets a ministerial entourage, including his daughter, the personal assistant to the Minister of Economic Affairs. This mixed group spends a long weekend in Ostrobothnia and they each have their own worries and dreams. Perhoset, by Jenni Toivoniemi, is easily digestible deadpan Finnish humour. 

Uncovering the secrets of ourselves

This was incredibly boring and infuriatingly slow-paced already from the beginning. It just slowly rolled forward but never really took off. A drama film about a 19th-century French winegrower and her difficulties in both her private life and her work. Could have been informative at the expense of entertainment at least, which is sometimes a nice compromise, but it wasn't even that. 

So we all become extinct

Arcadian, by Benjamin Brewer, should have been longer. The story could have been made into a 3-hour long movie or even a series. Because it's interesting and exciting, worth watching. It feels like the story of aliens who have come to cleanse the Earth of the human virus was told too narrowly. And too quickly. These creatures look like amazing, cartoonishly distorted monsters, as if ripped straight from the depths of hell. One of Nicolas Cage's better recent films. 

Look at those who are burning

A strangely conventional yet completely unique thriller. A widowed mother goes on a first date to a high-end restaurant where she receives a message that the lives of her child and her babysitter sister are threatened. Of course, you can't tell anyone or call the police, especially since this crazy person sending threats seems to know everything the woman does and says. What's stupid about this movie is that no mother in this world would act so restrained when the life of her own child is at stake. Hair-raising and spine-chilling excitement, though. It's cheesy and plotholed, but you'll like it.