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a-ha: The Movie
There is a useful directness to a ha: The Movie, a documentary shaped by Thomas Robsahm with a firm understanding of its audience. In a ha: The Movie, a ha provides the anchor while Morten Harket introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, a ha: The Movie opens from this situation: Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. The resulting its 1h 49m running
Aug 103 min read
The Grandmother
There is a useful directness to The Grandmother, a horror film shaped by Paco Plaza with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Grandmother, Almudena Amor provides the anchor while Vera Valdez introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Grandmother opens from this situation: A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. The resulting its 1h 40m running time feels most convincing when
Aug 103 min read
Mayday
There is a useful directness to Mayday, a mystery shaped by Karen Cinorre with a firm understanding of its audience. In Mayday, Grace Van Patten provides the anchor while Mia Goth introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Mayday opens from this situation: Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never ending war. The resulting its 1h 40m running time feels most convincing whenever Mayday t
Aug 102 min read
Mondocane
There is a useful directness to Mondocane, an action film shaped by Alessandro Celli with a firm understanding of its audience. In Mondocane, Dennis Protopapa provides the anchor while Giuliano Soprano introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Mondocane opens from this situation: Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The resulting its 1h 56m running time feels most convincing whenever Mondocane trusts behaviour more than explanation
Aug 102 min read
Heretic
There is a useful directness to Heretic, a horror film shaped by Chris Schwab with a firm understanding of its audience. In Heretic, Marlene Mc'Cohen provides the anchor while Ginny You introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Heretic opens from this situation: A modern mystic, using occult practices to communicate with the dead, experiences an evil beyond human comprehension. The resulting its 1h 27m running time feels most convincing whenever
Aug 102 min read
Saloum
There is a useful directness to Saloum, a horror film shaped by Jean Luc Herbulot with a firm understanding of its audience. In Saloum, Yann Gael provides the anchor while Evelyne Ily Juhen introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Saloum opens from this situation: In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. The resulting its 1h 24m running time feels most convinci
Aug 103 min read
Time Is Up
There is a useful directness to Time Is Up, a romance shaped by Elisa Amoruso with a firm understanding of its audience. In Time Is Up, Bella Thorne provides the anchor while Benjamin Mascolo introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Time Is Up opens from this situation: An accident will force 'Vivien' and Royan to come to a stop and reclaim their lives, one minute at the time, and finally start living in a present that perhaps will prove as the
Aug 103 min read
Blood Brothers: Civil War
There is a useful directness to Blood Brothers: Civil War, a mystery shaped by Jay Craven with a firm understanding of its audience. In Blood Brothers: Civil War, Christopher James Baker provides the anchor while Jacqueline Bisset introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Blood Brothers: Civil War opens from this situation: Two brothers' relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competitio
Aug 103 min read
A Banquet
There is a useful directness to A Banquet, a horror film shaped by Ruth Paxton with a firm understanding of its audience. In A Banquet, Sienna Guillory provides the anchor while Jessica Alexander introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, A Banquet opens from this situation: A widowed mother is radically tested when her teenage daughter insists a supernatural experience has left her body in service to a higher power. The resulting its 1h 37m runni
Aug 102 min read
Things Don't Stay Fixed
There is a useful directness to Things Don't Stay Fixed, a drama shaped by Bo Bartlett with a firm understanding of its audience. In Things Don't Stay Fixed, William Gregory Lee provides the anchor while Tara Ochs introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Things Don't Stay Fixed opens from this situation: When a worldly photojournalist returns to the Deep South to try to stop his daughter's wedding and save her future, he discovers that it is he
Aug 103 min read
Rock Paper Scissors
There is a useful directness to Rock Paper Scissors, a comedy shaped by Jayme Laforest with a firm understanding of its audience. In Rock Paper Scissors, Vahe Sevani provides the anchor while Jeremy Dozier introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Rock Paper Scissors opens from this situation: A ragtag group of teens band together to compete in the World Championship of Rock Paper Scissors. The resulting its 1h 35m running time feels most convinc
Aug 103 min read
The Hating Game
There is a useful directness to The Hating Game, a comedy shaped by Peter Hutchings with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Hating Game, Lucy Hale provides the anchor while Austin Stowell introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Hating Game opens from this situation: Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua,
Aug 103 min read
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