Part science part religion

To understand and choke them, Kate studied the fuck out of tornadoes. Her friends die. Years later she's hunting them dust devils yet again, meets a charming YouTuber and things fall into place. Purely on technical terms, Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters is very well made, but everything else bit of a bore and seen so many times before.

Lured there for a reason

This is grotesque and bloody disgusting. One of the most graphic contemporary video nasties. Art the Clown ain't messing around. He doesn't talk but kills like a motherfucker. Absolute sickening bonkers the whole thing, it's horror would have been more effective and scarier without the unnecessary supernatural bits though.

Discarded headlines

A decent Danish film. But unfortunately Mikkel Serup's Mørkeland (a sequel to Nikolaj Arcel's Kongekabale) is nothing else. There's an investigative journalist (Anders W. Berthelsen) in the middle of political conspiracy. It's as exciting as the next political thriller, but hopelessly dull and carried too much by the performance of Anders W. Berthelsen only.

True king builds bridges

It feels like you are looking at a video game and you are bored out of your tits. It's like an animated feature and they plastered real people like Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman and Dolph Lundgren in it. It probably was just played out in a green room somewhere and that's it. Perhaps they just photographed the actors and let the AI generate the rest. Sure it's colorful and wild, but it's as much stupid too.

One more river to cross

Finnish director Joey Palmroos's The Outlaws (aka 5 Outlaws) is just amateurish western indie that really gives you nothing. A posse makes a train robbery, hide in the woods and suddenly their loot disappears. That's 75 minutes that last like a lifetime. Although advertised as the lead star everyhere, Eric Roberts makes his first appearance in the 57th minute, his screen time is mere crumbs.

Never going to find any peace

The CIA's former operative Jason Bourne is drawn out of hiding! And his former employer wants to kill him dead! This is a welcome return of the character, Paul Greengrass back at the helm. Plenty of well executed high octane action sequences and the new cast (Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassell and Alicia Vikander) delivered incredibly well. Besides the director Greengrass, Matt Damon returns to the series.

God sends dogs for the unfortunates

A childhood tragedy made Douglas Munrow (Caleb Landry Jones) to trust none but dogs. He runs a New Jersey State dog shelter and if necessary he can use them to offer protection services for others or even perform robberies and implement his own revenge on his enemies. Dogman is a Luc Besson film. It's quite boring to tell the truth and particularly towards the end the story gets carried out a bit too much.

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 of 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.

Until months, to days, to hours, to seconds

Had there not been John Krasinski's A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2020), A Quiet Place: Day One, by Michael Sarnoski, would be a terrific horror flick. Obviously it rides on the original idea, but even though manages to cover some of the plot-holes of its predecessors, doesn't come with a fresh approach. It's more or less the same, these alien freaks with excellent hearing hunt down humans who can't keep their noise down. This movie introduced a cancer-ridden woman (quite excellent Lupita Nyong'o), accompanied by a cat and a British student, who wants to get a slice of pizza in Harlem before she dies.

The fifth rider of the apocalypse

A thrill ride of crazy stunts and choreography. George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. It's full of action and the story is epic madness. A mixed bag of entertaining things. Rich characters, awesome sequences with wacko graphic violence and wholehearted fun.

The poisoning of the earth

A crime thriller masquerared as a comedy. In a nutshell, Potsy Ponciroli's Greedy People is a flawed story that's not funny. It starts off light as a feather and ends up dark as night. The askew narrative didn't know where it was going.

Some water is magic

A swimming pool is evil. A former major league baseball player Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell), with his wife and their two children, moves into a new home and in its backyard lies this malignant pool. It's haunted, but drowns you in boredom really.  

Harpoon to the heart

A cult movie but no one really understands why. It's shit any way you look at it. So bad it's really bad. Some camp value on a side note only.

The law is wrong

Humans ruled the planet for thousands of years. But when a weird virus spread out, humans became stupid and apes took control. They somehow robbed human's intellect and ability to speak. Coexisting with one and other was a fucking mess still. Wes Ball's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is probably the weakest film in the whole Planet of the Apes franchise.