The whip-smart editing - concisely juggling the main plot line, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts from the lead character, as well as keeping a sprightly pace - is just a reflection of the wit and skill with which Triet and her cast unveil layer after layer of a complex woman whose façade of contented self-control is at odds with her internal messiness. Revelatory, sometimes hilarious, anchored by Virginie Efira's immense turn.
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Gods of Egypt 2016
De Cidade das Sombras a isto - uma queda vertiginosa para o ex-visionário Proyas. Uma bagunça de CGI asséptico, piadinhas tolas, romance aguado e enredo rocambolesco. O único jeito de tolerar a sessão é regredir a uma mentalidade adolescente.
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Black Orpheus 1959
As a Brazilian, I must say it took me quite a while to recognize my own country and people under Camus' foreign, exoticized gaze. This mythical romance is best viewed as a musical of sorts, unless one's unwilling to suspend disbelief, actually believing poor Brazilians dance all the time, Carnival time or not. Among the grievances, the numerous samba sequences that are absurdly long, the soundtrack which often veers into the realm of cacophony, and the acting, which is mostly…
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The Cabin in the Woods 2011
Tongue-in-cheek, it disembowels the conventions of the Evil Dead-type of horror stories and, surprisingly, makes for a frightening self-reflexive indictment of the audiences' thirst for human blood onscreen - all the while selling itself as silly entertainment.
