1917

Director: Sam Mendes. Cast: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Richard Madden … Even being a fan of Bong Joon-hoo since ‘Memories of Murder’, and having enjoyed ‘Parasites’, I feel that the Hollywood Academy was unfair to the cast of the Oscars, and Mendes deserved more for his impressive war drama. ‘1917’ manages to immerse the viewer in an adventure full of emotion where the amazing staging stands out.

Sam Mendes ‘first film after leaving the James Bond franchise was one of the most critically acclaimed this year, winning three Technical Oscars (including, most deservedly, Roger Deakins’ extraordinary photography) and Golden Globes. for best drama and best director. Its commercial hook is that this story told from the trenches of World War I takes place with a single sequence shot, but ‘1917’ goes further: the two main soldiers (Dean-Charles Chapman and George McKay), embarked on an impossible mission to prevent a massacre they inject humanity into a story that could have remained a mere technical exhibitionism.

The invisible man

The invisible Man Excellent display of fantastic militant by producer Jason Blum, who endorses Universal’s purpose of reformulating its classic monsters, a purpose that was partially thwarted with the failed ‘The Mummy’ with Tom Cruise. Here he takes the monster that needs the least fuss of all the Universal fauna and presents it as an allegory of domestic abuse, returning the famous mad doctor to the terrain of the undervalued ‘The man without a shadow’ by Verhoeven. The result, thanks to an extraordinary performance by Elisabeth Moss and tight, tight directing by Leigh Whannell, is one of the best horror films of 2020, and a well deserved blockbuster.

Bears Famous Invasion Of Sicily

The famous invasion of bears in Sicily Sicily In a year that has had a poor start for animated films, this French delicacy with exquisite designs and low intensity humor is undoubtedly one of the animated releases of the year. Here, Lorenzo Mattotti adapts a children’s story by Dino Buzzati divided into two parts. First, the story of the integration of a cub between humans. Then, without neglecting its simplicity and fabled character, the film’s graphics and moral is darkened and a singular satire is threaded for all audiences.

The father

A man refuses all help from his daughter as she gets older. As you try to make sense of your circumstances, you begin to doubt your loved ones, your own mind, and even the fabric of your reality. They say Anthony Hopkins is in all his glory. Again it is a film that only a few have seen at the Sundance Film Festival and it has managed to place itself in the first position. In theaters it will be released in November.

Project Power

Project power “If there was a pill that could give you five minutes of power, would you take it?” That is the claim to the Matrix of this Netflix blockbuster well loaded with special effects and starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback. This powerful trio come together to dismantle a trafficking network of these pills that give temporary superpowers to whoever takes them, in a cross between the X-Men and the cinema of street gangs.

Hater

Hater movie scene without making much noise, Netflix has managed to break the hegemony of American cinema and increasingly places more films of varied origins among the most viewed on the platform. This is the case of Hater, a Polish production directed by Jam Komasa. As in the interesting Cam, he immerses himself in the dark side of technology through a story in the key of a thriller about a kid pulling looser who begins to take revenge on people who despise him with extortion on social networks. His tactics are so effective that he is hired by an organization that wields this power on a grand scale, pushing his action to brutal limits, all in a disturbing context of post-communism and the rise of far-right movements.

The Last Days of Crime

It’s the other most-watched movie right now on Netflix and has a cathedral-like zero on Rotten Tomatoes – that’s the cover letter for this action movie starring Edgar Ramírez. Based on a graphic novel by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini, it is a revenge story starring an underworld criminal who goes back to his old ways after the death of his brother in a robbery. His plan is to make a big hit as the government plans an even bigger action to end such crimes once and for all, whatever the cost. More than two hours of violence and headless testosterone.

The Painter and the Thief

Dir: Benjamin Ree Photo: Neon This strange and compelling documentary from director Benjamin Ree begins when Barbora Kysilkova, a Czech artist in Oslo, Norway, has two paintings stolen from a gallery. After the thief, Karl Bertil-Nordland, is arrested, Barbora searches for him and asks him to paint his portrait. She is appropriating her image after he stole her art, but that’s just the beginning of a real, sometimes infuriating friendship as the story grows to include Barbora’s relationship with her boyfriend and addiction to drugs. Karl’s drugs.

Black Panther

Black Panther creates technical marvels with great style and manages to become part of a myth, something increasingly rare in current films. Most of the great film productions offer a joyful experience that usually ends in the same story as always, these are plots that only seek to expand the franchise. But that doesn’t happen in this movie. Its starting point is the fantastic nation of Wakanda, an African Eden that is also the legendary El Dorado where wild green landscapes meet the blue sky of science fiction. It is a land where spaceships – with landing gears resembling tribal masks – soar over majestic waterfalls as a story unfolds that goes far beyond what a franchise or brand dictates. Wakanda is home to the Black Panther, the alias for T’Challa (a character played by Chadwick Boseman), the latest Marvel hero to leap from the pages of the comics into his own movie. Created in 1966 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Black Panther —a feline hero wearing a tight-fitting suit with claws and ears— debuted alongside Fantastic Four in an adventure set in Wakanda, a fabulous place powered by the power of vibranium. a mysterious metal.