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An admirable feat by Alex Honnold, shot in a very bold way, conveying the "sweaty hands" effect even when you know everything is actually going to turn out well. Not that this is meant to diminish the feat of this introverted nerd and intellectual in any way, quite the opposite. In terms of sport, it's literally revolutionary. But in terms of content and filmmaking, aside from the aforementioned camera flourishes, it's a mostly mediocre film that offers nothing more and doesn't get under your skin other than its explicit depiction of man's battle with the overwhelming power of nature.

A one woman show in the form of Jennifer Lawrence. She is the main, and in fact overwhelmingly the only reason to watch this post-pubescent romp. The allusions to problematic adult life, the rich Hamptons, social networking and gender issues are fine, there's a reasonable amount of jokes and most of it is passable, but were there another actress in the role of Maddie, I'm afraid it wouldn't be nearly the same.

Finally, a properly filmed legend. Although not so heavyweight in terms of the actors' names, it can't compare with the 90s version, but actually in everything else it does and in many parameters it even surpasses it. This new remake is much less of a likeable pulp flick and much more of a gritty, dark film of intrigue with excellent sets and fantastically shot action, but there's very little of that so far and that's a shame. Only a fraction of films in French production have this kind of bold handheld camerawork and editing. It's expected that the sequel will be suitably epic and live up to expectations, as many fans are duly hyped after the first installment, and quite rightly so. PS: Captain Rochefort is missing!

Perfect craftsmanship. A mix of intricate crime drama like Mystic River and gloomy atmosphere in the style of the recent The Little Things with Denzel Washington, but with a much more interesting script and a fantastic cast. The experience isn't in the twist or the story's outcome, which is predictable and there’s no really big surprise in store. The key is the style of the storytelling, the direction and the work of the editor, who has a great sense of composition and masterfully mixes some of the sound and image structures into unique units. For what is essentially a directorial debut, hats off.

More of a nice fan-service than a full-fledged drama with emotional charge and theses from life like Rush. Gran Turismo has some nice moments, decent circuit racing scenes, solid unobtrusive visual effects and new faces, plus the old ones are cool and don't get in the way. Hounsou and Harbour do what's expected of them, and Bloom is just Bloom. The relationship line, however, is completely unnecessary. This film isn't talked about much probably due to weaker promotion or a specific target audience, it certainly won't become as popular as Nikki Lauda's story, but it has passable qualities.

If the fifth season slowly stumbled into the finale, the sixth has been stumbling since the start. So many generic templates, clunky dialogue and twists that are often pulled out of thin were perhaps not enough in the first 3-4 seasons together. For God's sake finish the job and let our favourite characters have at least a little of that personality fluid. Between 2 and 3.

One big wannabe dramatic charade with crypto magic boxes, throwing billions of USD left and right, all in a retrospectively cut episode where nothing makes much sense and the screenwriting ineptitude hides behind dense, wannabe sophisticated dialogue.

A hedge fund revelry with a polymorphic structure, sometimes incomprehensible editing and skipping of important moments in the story and character development and the final twist? Fincher should look at this.

Quite a tasteful respite where Paul Giamatti as the maverick Chuck Rhoades leads the troops again, all in the beautiful atmosphere of a rustic luxury country-club by the lake, which sets the stage to come out with more twists and turns and return to the battlefield.

A roller coaster full of slick dialogue that looks more like an advertisement for robots, but then Paul Giamatti comes in with his speech and you're willing to forgive a lot of things for this tired series, which is quite hard to swallow, especially in the last episodes.