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Stretched to the extreme. Season three begins slowly with the test run in the casino, but it turns into an emotional high-caliber rollercoaster ride. Bateman’s calculating Marty is still great, but this season stands primarily on Wendy’s shoulders, with her going from clever woman into a ball of nerves.

The candid camera only works in the biggest Hicksvilles and with Giuliani. Borat is still entertaining, but the scenes with dumb Americans are no longer enough, so he adds a deeper relationship with his daughter to this road movie. A decent sequel that works better in Kazakhstan than in America.

A pleasant movie about clones, a bit in the vein of Multiplicity. Rudd delivers an incredible performance in both roles. His devastated and bored Miles is unexpectedly realistic, while watching the happy Miles descend into depression is just plain funny, with an ingenious climax in front of the mirror. The ending unfortunately takes the film back to safe ground, but I don’t have any fundamental problem with that. This is no super sci-fi probe into the psyche, but quality entertainment for half an hour during lunch or before going to bed.

An offended fatty against the impolite world… To be perfectly honest from the very start, without Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, this film would be complete trash. With Russell, who sets men on fire, kicks women and strangles children, it’s quite entertaining. Because it’s not too long, the film flows easily and I spent most of the time thinking up different alternative plots that would be more original. And asking questions… Couldn’t the mom have been less nice? Couldn’t Borte film the car chases dynamically and play around a bit with paranoia? Why the heck did Russell agree to do this?

An unexpected, multi-genre construct that gives Fukunaga the chance to flex all of his directorial muscles. A comedy, drama and action movie. Hill’s acting is a bit strained at the start (probably because of his diet), while Stone is full-on. Everything is superbly explained, easy to follow and, despite the complexity of the ideas presented, understandable. Great work in which I would like to have seen a bit more depth.

A top notch courtroom drama, perfectly cast, excellently acted. It grabs you and doesn’t let go. Sorkin’s polished dialogs, purposeful messages and hard-hitting lines flow naturally and the picture as a whole builds up nicely to a great climax. What a ride.

Best episode yet. The marvelous intro with Hill’s Icelandic over-acting and loony Emma in the main role grabs you by the throat. The shootout in the hall is luxury and the finale with the Rubik’s cube is super. Great build up to finale. Humor, action and textbook denouement.

This movie lacks not only vision on the part of the director, but also consistency. Scenes strangely jump around a lot and are confusing. The motivations are as variable as the weather. The visual style relies on beautiful locations, but the scenery is a bit makeshift. However, the relationship between the father and daughter works beautifully. Liu Yifei is cute and knows how to act, but the Chinese aces such as Jet Li and Donnie Yen are inexcusably left on the sidelines and are practically unused. If they wanted a realistic version, they should have gotten tougher. Why couldn’t at least the training sequence be as hard-hitting as The 36th Chamber of Shaolin?

Sandler does these things on autopilot. He once again plays a simple, bullied loser who in the end hooks up with the hottest chick in town and finds happiness. This time it happens at Halloween and it’s just as stupidly funny as always. Nevertheless, Hubie had a surprise in store. The final twist works pretty well, just like mom’s T-shirts and the excellent Buscemi. Good for a Netflix movie.

A bizarre Czech thriller that makes no sense, and the screenwriter must be well aware of that; otherwise he wouldn’t have washed his hands of the whole bungled story, closing with that amateur final scene with Miklasová slumbering with her left breast accidentally exposed. The acting performances are weak: Nosek is asking for a punch in the face but, since he’s working with such an awful screenplay, it probably doesn’t matter. Hart’s camerawork is professional and the lighting and the overall production design are exceptionally good for a Czech film. That said, this mess is a waste of money and talented people’s time.