A coffin considered as furniture

These things are the greatest. Unfamiliar faces as the actors, but they are all great. A simple crime thriller without too much excess nonsense, just good writing and shot brilliantly. There's a gas station in a middle of nowhere and they've run out of gasoline. Little by little it's getting crowded, all sorts of folks hole up in there to wait for the fuel truck. Couple bank robbers on the run included! A lovely story. Possibly the biggest positive surprise of the year.

Sometimes we fight alone

A man is found dead in the snow under a balcony. They suspect it's the wife who killed him. The defense says he fell down from an open window, accidentally or on purpose. The couple's blind son is the only eye witness. It's quite a riveting trial.

Monsters aren't real

FBI and the police know that he's one of the 3000 men in the audience of over 20,000 in the concert of pop star Lady Raven. He's 'the Butcher', a notorious serial killer. He's also a dad watching the show with his daughter. M. Night Shaymalan's latest piece Trap is entertaining in its own right, but c'mon it's fucking ridiculous and full of gaping plot-holes.

All this and more

A stand-up comedian struggles to co-parent his autistic son. A simple story, seen many times before, but solid and entertaining little flick nevertheless. Them actors are all pretty good.

Going down to blood circus

Esa Jussila's (Pri)sons is ultra-violent Finnish film. They're bashing heads aplenty, it's ridiculously bloody and disgusting. There's no story to speak of and the acting is terrible.

Not everyone is cut out for everything

What a letdown the last episode in an otherwise interesting movie. Kinds of Kindness, by Yorgos Lanthimos, is in fact three movies in one movie. They are starring the same people, namely Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Yorgos Stefanakos, Hong Chau and Mamoudou Athie. The absurd triptych fable includes a domineering boss (Willem Dafoe) and his subordinates (episode:The Death of R.M.F.),  a policeman (Jesse Plemons) who thinks that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person now (episode: R.M.F. Is Flying) and a sex cult is looking for a prodigious spiritual leader of a sex cult (episode: R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich). Begs patience for a viewer, but pays off a too little in the end and indulges itself in surrealism too much. A few funny bits were great though.

Don't break the circle

Push the floor numbers on a certain order and the elevator takes you to journey of nightmares. Elevator Game has couple of good scares and it's a decent attempt of old-school horror as a whole. But the understanding of keeping the brooding atmosphere going throughout the movie turns out to be difficult. Low budget and flaws everywhere don't help.

From the past comes the storms

They would have made something decent out of this had they got the courage to left a big chunk of the material on the editing room floor. So slow-burning western pathos that it's frustrating. Written and directed by Viggo Mortensen.

Seize the identity you want for yourself

A college teacher helps out the local police portraying a hitman and thus uncovering people looking for a liquidator doing a murder for them. He falls in love with one of his clients and we pretend it's all very funny and exciting.