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An enjoyable comedy from Russia about an aircraft designer who dies in an accident, but his soul/body continues to reside in our world. No one sees or hears him except a little boy at school, as his soul is untainted. The idea and the execution are fine, but the two-hour running time is unfortunately too much for such a film, and the funny moments are not as many as I would have liked. As an original family comedy, however, it's fine. 6/10.

A nice surprise from Brazil. The film has an original story about a pathologist who has the ability to talk to the dead, a rather disturbing and interesting topic in itself. There are detailed scenes with organs, brains and I simply love morgue settings. The story develops in unexpected directions, there are some interesting twists and turns and in the second half, the film becomes a regular ghost story so fans of hauntings and dissections will find something to enjoy. Despite its rather long running time I enjoyed the film and it's definitely worth a watch. 7/10.

The Mauritanian has a rather interesting story involving a man who is held in prison for several years without any trial or charge and under rather harsh conditions. It has a strong cast featuring Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch and Zachary Levi, and they are all good. However, what I was most looking forward to came only in the last few minutes. I was expecting a tense courtroom thriller, but in the end it's not about the trial, which is only there for maybe five minutes, and the rest goes at such a slow and uninteresting pace that I slowly lost interest in the film. Too bad, the film isn't bad, but it's pretty boring. 5/10.

A pretty decent seven-minute short featuring a soldier stuck with a parachute in a tree and something nasty lurking in the woods. It relies more on atmosphere and unpleasant noises and is actually quite suspenseful, but the ending where he finally gets free is about nothing at best, and that just always pisses me off. 6/10.

The expected killer jeans are just average after all. The advantage is that the film is only 80 minutes long, so you don't have to wait much for anything, and the jeans start rampaging from the 10th minute. The story centers on the employees of a clothing store who are in lockdown and a new collection of jeans is out for blood. It's shot, original and fairly entertaining, although the characters are rather unlikeable, the entire fashion community feels like some kind of brainwashing cult, so you just look forward to their execution. It could have been saved by the gore, which when it did happen was excellent, but out of the fifteen characters most of the murders are off camera. But there are three or four gore scenes that are really cool, though I don't really understand why they didn't show all of them, I would have gone higher with the rating for sure. The humuor didn't work for me, so as a comedy the film fails. I was expecting more, but for the original idea, short running time and four decent murders, Slaxx gets 3 stars from me. 5.5/10.

Decent perversion for a fringe audience! A short eight-minute film set in a twisted household where the weird main character, who is more or less an overgrown child, accidentally creates his doppelganger and competes with it for his mother's favour. Madness that will not be easily forgotten, it's extremely weird, but it served its purpose! 8/10.

I'm not a big fan of comedies from China, but this one is a blast with an original idea. The protagonist is the goalkeeper from a not so well known football team, whose very wealthy uncle dies and to inherit his fortune he has to earn it first. He is tasked with spending one billion in 30 days, with the stipulation that at the end of the month he must not own any property, must not tell anyone and must not have even 1 yuan left over, if he makes it he will inherit 30 billion. A very entertaining movie where while watching you think about how you would spend the money and in the end it's not that simple. The main character gets into some tricky situations at times because of this, and his accountant is excellent, constantly admonishing him not to spend so much. The comedic highlight probably came at a football match, there I was crying with laughter. Really great. 8/10.

Pretty disappointing. According to the trailer, Lucky with a home invasion with a time loop, but in the end it's completely different, it’s not even a horror movie but a social satire full of metaphors from the #Metoo era about how women have it hard in life. Poor women. Directed, of course, by feminist Natasha Kermani. On the one hand, the film is original; on the other hand, it's kind of useless because everything that happens is weird, every minute you have more questions, and when the end comes you feel like jumping out the window because they don't explain absolutely anything to you because they don't know it themselves. Aside from the fact that nothing is explained, almost nothing makes sense, the killer doesn't really try – he could have killed the protagonist at any time, but he is fighting for women's rights, isn't he? They could have done a nice job with the gore here, there were countless possibilities, but the murders are more reminiscent of PG-13 thrillers from 2000s. The only scene that stood out to me was the one in the garage, but that seems woefully lacking. Unfortunately, it's not suspenseful, atmospheric, or brutal. It was filmed quite OK and I was willing to go for three stars while watching it until the ending, which ruined the whole thing. The higher percentage on tomatoes the less horror, that's already already clear. 4/10.

A great comedy from the days when Americans were still doing cool stuff. It's a bit like American Pie, and it's funny and crazy enough. I enjoyed the nudity, the decent wisecracks, the nice pacing, and James Marsden as an assassin. I had a good laugh. 8/10.

Decent short in the toilets with a nice villain and two decent scares. The atmosphere could be cut with a knife during those three minutes. 7/10.