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Back to Black is a new music biography directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) starts her music career in her own rebellious way. She does not want to do this in ways that the record company expects of her. This way she knows how to release her music in her own way.

In addition to her music career, Amy also discovers her love life and the darker world of alcohol and drugs. If she tries to bring all these worlds together, she must also keep them in balance side by side. This remains a difficult task, especially due to the presence of all the gossip photographers.

After the death of Amy Winehouse, several filmmakers tried to film a biography about her short life, but often without success. The 2015 biographical documentary Amy was the only successful film adaptation.

With Back to Black they try to make another biographical film adaptation, but unfortunately this one is a bit on the messy side. This film sometimes loses its focus and it sometimes seems more about Amy's love life and how her partner introduced her to hard drugs. This biography certainly misses Amy Winehouse's more creative, musical sides.

In Civil War, she showed the positive sides of photography journalists, but with this film they show the negative side of gossip photographers. They often stalk famous people such as Amy Winehouse in order to capture the wrong photo for tabloid magazines.

Marisa Abela has sung many of the Amy Winehouse songs herself in this biography. She trained herself to imitate Amy's singing. Yet they make the mistake of sometimes playing a real Amy Winehouse song in the background or on the radio in the film, so you can hear the difference between the real Amy Winehouse and Marisa Abel. Marisa Abel is also somewhat overshadowed by the real Amy Winehouse. However, she portrays Amy Winehouse's mannerisms, walk and attitude in good ways. In addition to Marisa Abela, Eddie Marsan also gives a good and appropriate performance as Amy Winehouse, her father, a man who tries to help his rebellious daughter during her busy career.

Civil War is a new action drama directed by Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina and Annihilation.

In the future, a civil war breaks out in the United States between different groups who, because of different views on life and the country, believe that change needs to happen. They just have to make these changes themselves.

A team of journalists try to document these events so that the rest of the world can follow this battle over what is happening in America. They take photos to record everything, but they risk their own lives with this.

By concentrating the film on the journalists, Alex Garland has safely chosen not to turn this film into a political film where they try to show you the political left or right. However, the film lacks clarity and the cause of the civil war is not really explained well. The reasons for the Civil War seem to relate more to American politics, but Alex Garland himself is not even of American descent. Due to the unclear aspects and lack of information, the film can sometimes be difficult to follow or seem a bit long-winded. The film also has quite an abrupt ending, as if they had run out of film budget or had no more time to continue filming.

Despite the more American aspects of the film, it still responds well to current events. Currently, brutal wars are still taking place in the world, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine or the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. These wars are also shared with the rest of the world with the help of journalists, among other things.

The film clearly shows the terrible consequences of war and all the types of chaos it often leaves behind. In this film they portray the gunshots and explosions well and believably. They also clearly illustrate the consequences of this.

This film actually shows the importance of journalism, most of which is more neutral. They often try to record events with photos and stories, in order to share this with the rest of the world and preserve it at the forefront of history. This also shows how dangerous a journalist's career can be, as the film shows brutal, bloody images as the consequences of war. Despite the importance and positive aspects of journalism, they could have made the film a bit more realistic. In addition to journalistic reports and photos, a lot of news is now also shared with smartphones and on social media. For a film set in the future, you would have expected to see more of this.

The acting is good and believable by the cast members. Kristen Dunst plays a more experienced photojournalist, who has seen and experienced a lot. As a result, she has become somewhat emotionless and many brutal events affect her less. Stephen McKinley Henderson plays an older journalist with more experience, who tries to guide the rest during their further journalistic careers. Cailee Spaeny plays a novice journalist who tries to break through and sees others as examples and tries to learn a lot from them. Still, the best acting is done by Nick Offerman and Jesse Plemons, although they only play more short cameo roles in the film.

Invasion is a new action thriller directed by Bobby Boermans. Director of App, Claustrofobia and Fissa. Since Fissa, he has focused more on directing TV series in recent years.

In the film, the Dutch ABC Islands are attacked by neighboring country Veragua. Here is a dictator in power who wants revenge on the Netherlands and is therefore attacking the Antilles.

Three young, novice marines must resist and keep a Dutch ambassador safe while this enemy invasion is underway.

In recent years, director Bobby Boermans has been more concerned with directing TV series such as Mocro Mafia and the Golden Hour. His last directing work was with the film Fissa in 2016. Taking up directing work again after eight years does not seem to go so smoothly for him. The story in this film is told very hastily without any real clear explanation or character development.

The enemy invasion also happens a bit too quickly and simply to really take it seriously. You would expect somewhat better defense in the Netherlands Antilles. The film playfully makes it look like the continent of Australia during a simple Risk game. Through too many coincidences they also try to get away with excesses why there is little security or other personnel.

For an action thriller about a military attack, the film lacks real tension. The film often remains on the predictable side. Furthermore, the film lacks a real threatening form of the attacking enemy. This threat is also easily resolved in the end.

Many action scenes are also animated or contain too many edits between the scenes. This can make many of these scenes difficult to follow. You can sometimes only tell the different groups of soldiers apart if you can see the flag of which country they belong to on their uniforms.

The cast members try to perform appropriately in this film, but due to the rushed aspects of the story, most of them have little room to do something with their characters. For example, you don't really know what their names are for most of them, or what their backstory exactly is. Because of this, there are also few good reasons to really care about most of the characters. Some have some small comedic moments, but most of these are also on the predictable side, or have already been given away in the trailers.

Monkey Man is a new action thriller, partly written and produced by Dev Patel. Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with this film. Found he was known as actors in films such as Slumdog Millionaire and Lion.

After the death of his mother, her son Kid (Dev Patel) decides to take revenge against the perpetrators responsible for her death.

He always spends his time first in an underground fighting club, where he experiences bloody fights wearing a monkey mask. He does all this in preparation to fight the sinister elite.

This film was initially going to go directly to Netflix, but after Jordan Peele saw the film, he decided to work with his production company Monkeypaw to ensure that the film studio Universal Pictures could release the film in cinemas.

For a directorial debut, Dev Patel manages to create an entertaining film with its own good story. The film is somewhat reminiscent of other revenge films such as John Wick. Furthermore, Dev Patel also seems to have taken on too much responsibility for his first directorial work. In addition to directing, partly writing the story and producing the film, he also plays the leading role in the film. It seems that he has not always looked back carefully at his final results. Many action scenes are very moving or are depicted too zoomed in. You can't always follow everything clearly. As a result, the film may lose some of its entertaining aspects.

Dev Patel played the lead role well in the film. He has also done many of his own stunts. For example, he broke his hand during the first action scene. However, he started training in taekwondo himself since he was ten years old. Sharlto Copley also plays an entertaining role in the film, but unfortunately a small role.

The First Omen is a prequel to the first Omen film from 1976. This prequel is directed by Arkasha Stevenson. This is her film directorial debut, before which she has only directed episodes of various TV series.

The young American Margaret (Neil Tiger Free) has been sent to Italy to live in the service of the church. During her time at the church, she learns about hidden, dark actions at the church as they seek to bring the Antichrist to life.

With this prequel they respond well to the original Omen film from 1976. This original film has already had sequels, spin-offs and a remake. All these films after the original Omen often did not work very successfully, but this new prequel seems to change that after years. With this prequel they respond well to the story that happened before the original film. They know how to create a good, exciting, but also equal atmosphere with this new Omen film. The only disadvantage of the fact that the film responds so well to the original Omen film is that it can make this prequel a bit predictable at times. As a connoisseur of the classic Omen film, you can anticipate this prequel.

In addition to the predictable aspects that the film can have for connoisseurs, the film also has an incorrect outcome date. This film is very similar to the horror film Immaculate, which was released in cinemas a week earlier. Due to the similar horror stories, it can feel a bit repetitive when you see these two films in two weeks in a row.

With horror aspects, with this film they do not play much on horror clichés such as lame jump scares, but manage to create a more religious horror atmosphere around the birth of the Antichrist. This is not a sadistic body horror film, but focuses more on the aspects involved in birth. They seem to have used so many real effects for this, which also made some more of the cast members ragged.

Nell Tiger Free also carries this film as the lead, who learns about dark secrets in her church. Together with the other cast members, she and the rest play the characters well and appropriately enough, making it seem like they are also from the 1976 film.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. A film that tried to breathe new life into the film series for old fans of the film series, but also for new fans of this generation. This new film is directed, written and produced in part by Gil Kenan, director of City of Ember and the 2015 Poltergeist remake.

The Spengler family has moved to the New York firehouse where the original Ghostbusters team had their secret research lab.

The discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force that deceives New York and the rest of the world with a new ice age. To prevent this, the new Ghostbusters must team up with the old members of the original team.

The director and writer of the previous Ghostbusters film Jason Reitman has stepped down as co-writer and producer for this sequel. Jason remains the son of Ivan Reitman, who was the mastermind behind the original Ghostbusters film series.

By filling this new film with the old and new characters and in addition to some references from the old films, they have made this film a bit too full. This can sometimes make the film seem a bit messy or long-winded. Most of the characters in this film also have their own storyline, but because of all these different storylines it sometimes remains difficult or uninteresting to follow them all exactly.

The best moments in this new film are when it comes to Mckenna Grace and Dan Aykroyd's characters, as they really do more research into the threat of the ice demon. The other characters are more concerned with their own things, but these are more separated from the real story of the film until the end. As a result, it takes a while before the real threat of the ice demon really begins.

Immaculate is a new horror film from Michael Mohan, director of The Voyeurs.

Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) decides after a near-death experience that she must direct her life to faith and dedicate it to God. This is why she decides to spend the rest of her life in a monastery as a nun.

During her stay in this monastery, strange things happen to her, causing her to learn about a dark, hidden secret.

Ten years ago, Sydney Sweeney auditioned for this role, but other than that she never really got this movie going. Now ten years later, Sydney Sweeney has taken on the task of producer herself. She has also found a writer and director, so that they can eventually arrange enough finances together. She plans to sell the film to the film studio Neon so that the film can finally be made.

Even though this film has been in the making and planning for about ten years, she seems not to have always been so sure what exactly she wanted to do with this film in the final production. In the film they use both demonic and other bloody horror elements. In the end, it's more about one of these horror elements than the other. As a result, the use of the other horror element can seem a bit misleading and loose. The film sometimes uses lame jump scares, but also uses brutal, bloody scenes. Some of these scenes are also a bit unnecessary or overdone at times. In the ten years that he made this film, they could have looked back a little more at their own ending details.

Apart from these uncertain aspects of the film, fortunately the cast members deliver appropriate acting. Sydney Sweeney has wanted to make the role her own in the ten years since this passion film and has gone all out with her acting in this film. The other castle members also play their roles in appropriate ways, but can sometimes come apart a bit due to the film's vague aspects.

Sleeping Dogs is a new crime mystery directed, written and produced in part by Adam Cooper. He makes his directorial debut with this film. He also has some experience as a screenwriter for films such as Allegiant and Assassin's Creed.

Roy Freeman (Russell Crowe) is an ex-detective who had to quit his job because he suffered from Alzheimer's. When a prisoner is threatened with the death penalty, he asks Roy to take another look at his case and hopefully find enough evidence to prove his innocence and save his life.

Despite his poor memory, Roy tries to revisit and revive the ten-year-old case. This is how he ends up in a crime web full of brutal actions and dark secrets, in which he must decipher the real truth.

Just like Russell Crowe's character, as a viewer you try to keep up with what happened in the ten-year-old case. This way you can try to solve the matter yourself. The crime web just contains many events and different characters, some of whom are suspects or victims. Everyone also brings their own story with hints, although some hints sometimes contradict each other. Due to the Alzheimer's complaints of the main character and all these different storylines and hints, you do not always get all the traces clearly. Despite the many twists and the main character's poor memory, the real perpetrators of the crime can still be guessed. As a result, all the mysterious aspects of the mystery can be a bit disappointing in the end, because the answer was so easy to guess.

However, they have unnecessarily chosen to add special drugs and science fiction-like medical gadgets to the story, which causes the film to lose some of its realism. In addition to these non-existent things, the film responds nicely to real things and data surrounding the human brain. If they had just stuck to the real stuff, the movie could have been more interesting.

Russell Crowe comes across well and realistically as an older detective who can no longer always trust his own memory. Other cast members also play well on the mysterious aspects of the mystery. With most of them you don't always know whether or not they can be trusted and whether they play victims or perpetrators in the story.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is the latest film in the monsterverse film series. The film is directed, written and produced in part by Adam Wingard, who also directed the previous Monsterverse film Godzilla vs Kong.

When Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and her team learn that something is wrong with Kong, they investigate. This way we learn that a new threatening titan is disrupting the balance in Hollow Earth and also threatens to disrupt the balance in the human world.

To keep both worlds in balance, the team needs the help of Godzilla in addition to King Kong. To do this, they must reunite Godzilla and King Kong after their final confrontation to stop the other threats.

The previous films from the monsterverse series received less feedback that the human storylines and characters did not really interest the viewers much. That's why they seem to be trying to stick more to the monsters with this new film, especially King Kong. As a result, the human characters and even Godzilla in this film serve more as extras.

Yet these extras do have their own storylines that sometimes play into the storyline of King Kong, but are sometimes quite separate from it. Because of all these extra storylines, the film can seem a bit messy at times and can sometimes be difficult to follow. For a better and clearer story, the writers could have better discussed their story ideas with each other and perhaps combined some things into the same thing or otherwise used fewer elements. Then they could have had a clearer story.

The visual effects do work in the film and provide entertaining images of monsters fighting each other. By having some of these fights take place in the monster world, the monsters lose their great preconceptions, which they had more and better in the previous film. Fortunately, these large visuals work well when the monsters fight each other in the human world. Although the monster fighting scenes are entertaining, they are sometimes depicted a bit too dynamically, so you cannot always follow everything clearly. During some fights you may wonder where some characters or monsters have gone. This shows that the film could have worked well with fewer people and monsters. The director and the visual effects team were given more space to make the monsters more his own in this film. For example, they have given the monsters new looks to make the film slightly different compared to how they appear in the other films in the Monsterverse series.

Because quite a lot happens in the film, not every actor gets the same amount of time in this film. This gives cast members like Brian Tyree Henry some room for some comedic moments, but others serve more as people who explain what happened, the history of something, or where something is currently located. This can lead to more long-winded moments in the film.

Float is a new romantic drama directed and partly written by Sherren Lee. This is her directorial debut and has previously only directed short films and TV episodes.

Waverly (Andrea Bang) thinks she has already figured out her own future. However, she decides to change her plans after she meets lifeguard Blake (Robbie Arnell). Especially after he saved her when she almost drowned.

When Blake learns that Waverly can't really swim, he decides to teach her. During these swimming lessons, the two fall in love, but have to see if they can compare each other's past and future plans.

Besides the fact that this is her directorial debut, Sherren Lee is also still a novice as a screenwriter for films. Unfortunately, the same also applies to the other writers of this film. This makes the film quickly seem a bit simple and later uninteresting. The writers find it difficult to keep the film afloat.

They further based the film on the popular Wattpad teen novel by Kate Merchant. This story has been read more than 25.5 million times by Wattpad users. Despite this popular side, filming this story was perhaps a bit unnecessary.

Andrea Bang and Robbie Arnell perform their roles well, but they lack real chemistry together. This makes you as a viewer care little about their relationship.

The Return Journey is a new drama comedy directed and partly written by Jelle de Jong, director of the first Bon Bini Holland and Weg van jou.

Jaap (Martin van Waardenberg) has been together with his partner Maartje (Leny Breederveld) for almost 50 years. Jaap has also become a little more bitter over the years and Maartje is increasingly suffering from dementia. Despite these setbacks, the two decide to go to Spain to visit an old friend.

With this film, the director and co-writer show that Dutch films do not always have to be the same kind of romantic comedy, but there is also room for more serious drama comedies like this. At the beginning of this month, for example, the film Buenas Chicas was released with characters who also travel to Spain, but ended up as a well-known standard romantic comedy filled with clichés. It's nice to see that a film like The Return Journey shows that other types of films can also come from the Netherlands.

This film is also more about an older couple, who have a whole life history together and still carry it with them. This also makes them more interesting characters to keep following for about an hour and a half. Due to the limited playing time, the balance between drama and comedy is sometimes lost and the director and co-writer do not always seem to know exactly which of the two genres to highlight most.

Despite this, Martin Waardenberg and Leny Breederveld manage to portray their roles well in the film. Martin comes across well as a more sullen, older man who prefers to take it easy, but who carries a touch of dry humor. Leny then plays a more cheerful old lady, who still wants to try everything, but suffers from an early form of dementia, which means she no longer always knows exactly what she is doing or should do. This can provide comical moments, but can also seem a bit worrying, because dementia should not really be something you can always laugh about.

Imaginary is a new horror film directed, written and produced in part by Jeff Wadlow, director of Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island.

Jessica (DeWanda Wise) has moved back to her childhood home. Here her stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun) finds a teddy bear whom she names Chauncey and considers as an imaginary friend. For example, Alice plays silly pranks with Chauncey, but these pranks soon turn into increasingly dark actions.

Jessica sees her stepdaughter changing more and more and going in the wrong direction. Because of this, she tries to end the bond she has with her imaginary friend before Alice goes completely in the wrong direction.

Jeff Wadlow further wrote this film with other writers, who co-wrote children's and animation film scripts for this film. They have little experience with horror films. Jeff Wadlow himself has worked on other horror scripts before this, but for horror films that were not as successful. He also saw the film Poltergeist as an influence for the further story of this film. Yet he and the other writer seem to have had little unique imaginary vision for this film, because it quickly comes across as a cliché horror film. This way the film remains more predictable and familiar rather than really scary.

The visual effects do not always come across as believable, which means that most things do not come across as scary and the film sticks more to bland, predictable jump scares.

Due to the inferior script with little room for their own imaginary sides, the cast members are also given little to work with. DeWanda Wise does well in the leading role, but unfortunately her characters are given little room to really develop due to the inferior script. This is only the second film for the young Pyper Braun in which she plays a major role. It can be seen that she does her best in the film, but with a better script and a more experienced director, they probably could have helped and guided her a little more with her role.

Buenas Chicas is a new romantic comedy directed by Pim van Hoeve, director of Gek van Oranje.

Junior lawyer Billie (Susan Radder) has botched an important case and is now in danger of being fired. To prevent this, she goes to Spain where she actually tries to help clients to acquire land for their plans to build a golf resort.

If she succeeds in this, she has a better chance of keeping her job. Yet everything is made more difficult for her than she first expected, especially when she meets her ex Rogier (Thijs Boermans) in Spain.

Just like February, which started with the Dutch romantic comedy in love with Bali, the month of March starts with Buenas Chicas. Although different things happen in both films, such as the cause of the journey to a different country, there are still many cliché moments and things that also emerge in many romantic comedies.

There are a few too many coincidences in this film, such as the fact that the main character travels to a place in Spain and coincidentally meets her ex here. In addition to these coincidences, the other things in this hour and a half also seem a bit too forced, which ultimately makes everything seem more believable.

The friends who travel to Spain together come across as nice friends, but in the end they don't really come across as special enough to make the film unique compared to the many other Dutch romantic comedies.

Wicked Little Letters is a new mystery comedy based on a true story. The film is directed by Thea Sharrock, director of Me Before You.

In Littlehampton, residents receive letters full of hilarious, but also blasphemous letters. The two neighbors, local Edith Swam (Olivia Colman) and Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley), can laugh at the letters, but like the other residents, they wonder who the mysterious sender is.

Because Rose is known to many as someone who quickly uses bad swear words, she is quickly seen as the perpetrator. Rose tries to prove her innocence and track down the real sender herself.

With this film they clearly show that women no longer always have to be nice ladies, but can also go through life using foul language. Even though it is based on a true story, what is said by the characters also comes across very realistically as conversations that people can actually have with each other.

Jessie Buckley comes across well and realistically as someone who has no problem using bad words. Despite the fact that she is seen as a suspect, her character remains rude and perhaps even ruder as she is increasingly seen as a suspect while she tries to prove her innocence. Oliva Colman also plays her role as the helping neighbor well and appropriately in the film. Together the two have a good and credible bond as friendly neighbors.

Dune Part Two is the sequel to the first Dune film by director Denis Villeneuve, which was released in 2021. Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) has now joined the Fremen group. Here he tries to learn about their customs such as their handling of the sandworms. Paul seeks revenge on the conspirators who destroyed his family. With Chani (Zendaya) at his side, Paul goes into battle against enemy troops who serve the Emperor (Christopher Walken). This sequel, three years later, immediately picks up where the first part ended. This first part was well received by most as an improved start to the film adaptations of the Dune story. Previous film adaptations turned out less well, because the story of the Dune books is quite a large and complicated story. With Denis Villeneuve's first part he managed to properly introduce the Dune world and build it up with the political struggle between the different groups. With this second film he focuses more on the customs and beliefs of the Fremen group, who think they can defeat the enemy through a more religious approach. Furthermore, the relationship between Paul and Chani is also developed a bit more, but there are some rushed moments. However, with this second part, many things have to be explained and built upon, which means that there are some long-winded moments in this second part. Compared to the first part, this second part has more room for action scenes, which increases the pace and tension slightly. Furthermore, it remains more of a political battle between different groups and houses, which fight each other more strategically than really physically. In contrast to the first part, things in this second part feel more rushed. Like the relationship between Paul and Chani. The aspect of the earthworms and how the Fremen handle and ride the creatures is also explained in a somewhat hasty manner, so it is not always clear. Denis Villeneuve once again provides beautiful visual images of the different worlds and areas from the Dune books. Together with photography director Greig Fraser, they ensure that the images appear beautiful, creative and credible. By adapting the Dune story from the first book of the series into two films, Denis Villeneuve has given himself and his cast members more space to make something good and beautiful out of the film adaptation. This also gives the actors more space to develop their characters and evolve with the time they get in the films. Timothée Chalamet is thus given the opportunity to develop his character from an exploring newcomer into someone who tries to avenge the harm done to his family. Furthermore, he tries to be a savior for the different groups and tries to get them back into balance. Compared to the first part, Zendaya is given more time and space in this second part to develop her character more and work on the chemistry and relationship she has with Timothée Chalamet, his character. However, this relationship can seem a bit rushed, which means it cannot always remain so believable for every viewer. Of the new cast members, Austin Butler steals the most scenes as a dangerous warrior of the enemy army, but he and his character could have been given a little more time and development. Other well-known actors such as Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh and Christopher Walken play their roles well and appropriately, but unfortunately do not have such major roles in this second Dune film.

Land of Bad is a new war thriller directed, written and produced in part by William Eubank, director of The Signal and Underwater.

During a special mission in the Philippines, something goes terribly wrong and the team of young officer Kinney (Liam Hemsworth) is taken hostage. Kinney tries to free his team members, but his only help is that of Captain Eddie Grimm (Russell Crowe), codenamed Reaper, who, as a drone pilot from afar, tries to keep an eye on Kinney and his surroundings. He tries to give him the right advice, with which he can hopefully save his team.

With this film, director William Eubank and co-writer David Frigerio try to create an exciting war thriller. Unfortunately, as both are still at the nascent end of their directing and writing careers, they deliver a more messy, standard war thriller. There are exciting action scenes in the film, but many of them are unfortunately depicted in too moving or zoomed in. This makes many of these scenes sometimes difficult to follow.

The details are not always correct either, because for example the rank of Air Force Staff Sergeant looks different between the Army and the Air Force. The drone Staff Sergeant also has the wrong insignia on her blouse. If the writer had done more and better research into these details they could have conveyed them more realistically in the film.

There are times in the film where too many different events happen at the same time. Officer Kinney tries to save his colleagues while he is attacked by the enemy. In the meantime, you also get to see the military drone team watching a basketball game and Reaper running errands. By playing all these different activities side by side, you can lose your concentration somewhat. In addition, it also makes the US Air Force look a bit amateurish.

Liam Hemsworth comes across well as a novice officer who tries to prove himself as a real soldier. In this film he plays colleagues together with his real brother Luke Hemsworth. The two have a good bond together in the film. Russell Crowe also plays a fun and comical role, an older captain who seems to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. He wants everything to happen or be classified in certain ways. Due to the messier aspects of the film, most of them just don't really get a chance to properly develop their characters in the film.

Madame Web is a new spin-off set in the Marvel Spider-Man world. This spin-off is directed, partly written and produced by S. J. Clarkson. Before this film, she directed more TV series episodes of superhero shows such as Jessica Jones and The Defenders.

Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) works as a paramedic in New York and learns after an accident that she has superpowers to see future possibilities. She sees that the lives of three girls are threatened by a mysterious masked man with spider-like powers.

This is why she tries to protect the three girls and must convince them that their lives are really in danger. To truly protect them, they must ensure that the three listen to her and learn to work together.

The story of this film has an interesting concept, but the final story and screenplay were written by five different writers. These writers do not always seem to have been on the same page, because the story sometimes seems a bit rushed or frayed. It sometimes seems as if they didn't really know what exactly to do with it, or what the film studio despised of them. The screenplay has also been rewritten many times, so the cast members could no longer always follow exactly where they were going or supposed to do with the film.

Despite these messy, rushed aspects, the film remains on a familiar, predictable side for a superhero film. This can make the film seem a bit long-winded or embarrassing. The film is reminiscent of other superhero films that came out around the year 2000, but of a somewhat lesser quality.

The visual effects don't always look believable either. The blue screen and CGI can be seen in the film. For some of the cast members, this was also the first time they had actually worked in a film with such visual effects. The fact that they have little or no experience with these film situations is sometimes reflected in their acting.

The poor script also gives the cast members few opportunities to make something special of their roles. Dakota Johnson also seemed a bit uncomfortable during promotions of the film, or ignorant of how to properly promote this film. In the final film she tries to make the best of the role and tries to add some comedy to the role, but she doesn't always get the chance to do this. Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Celeste O'Connor play the three girls Cassandra tries to protect. All three are given a little time to give their characters some personalities, but unfortunately not enough to make you as a viewer really care about the three. For a better focused film, they might have been better off using a character in the story, who Cassandra then has to protect. Tahar Rahim plays the villain in the film, who tries to kill the three girls, but also deals with the poor, weak script. As a result, he does not emerge as strongly as the villain of the story. They also didn't incorporate his audio work well into the film, because his lips sometimes don't always match what his character is saying.

With all these superhero spin-off films from the Sony film studio, they only make Marvel's current film series more messy. If Sony and Disney Marvel try to collaborate on the same film series, they will have to consult each other more and better and plan where they want to go with this film series.

The Bricklayer is a new action thriller directed by Renny Harlin, director of Die Hard 2 and The Long Kiss Goodnight.

When European journalists are murdered, these murders are linked to the CIA. This creates a political drama between Europe and the CIA. This is why ex-CIA agent Steve Vali (Aaron Eckhart) sends Kate Bannons (Nina Dobrev) as his partner to Greece to investigate these murders.

During this investigation, Vali is confronted with his past. The tracks lead to his old CIA colleague Victor Radek (Clifton Collins Jr.), but he has been deceased for some time. Knowing that Radek had problems with the CIA causes Vali to investigate whether his colleague really died, in order to protect the CIA's name and prevent a conflict between them and Europe.

The script of this film was written by four different writers, who further based it on a novel. All these different writers create a messy story that remains difficult to follow. Despite these messy aspects, the film still remains on a predictable side, because you can roughly guess which characters will be eventual traitors.

Due to the messy script, the cast members don't really get the chance to properly develop or really build up their characters and their relationships in the film. As a result, you as a viewer don't care much about them. For example, Aaron Eckhart, his character, has a passion for laying bricks, but why is explained weakly throughout the film until he tries to explain this himself at the end of the film.

In addition to the messy story, most of the action scenes are also messily depicted. Many of these scenes are shot too movingly, or there are too many edits in between the scenes. This makes these scenes difficult to follow and you cannot enjoy them much, because it is difficult to follow exactly what is happening.

Bob Marley: One Love is a biographical film about the life of musician Bob Marley. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, director of King Richard.

Reggae icon Bob Marley (Kingsley Ben-Adir) tries to spread his message about love and connection through his musical songs. However, this is not always well received or accepted by everyone. Yet he continues to spread this message across the world in the hope of improving it.

Bob Marley, his son Ziggy Marley, spent a lot of time on this film to ensure that his father and his message are well received by viewers. His wife Orly Marley and Bob Marley, his wife Rita Marley were also involved in this film as producers. Despite the involvement of these family members and loved ones, they could have been more involved in the final story. The final story lacks a real strong, common thread at the heart of the film. In the film they show some different, important events from the life of Bob Marley. Some of these are treated too hastily, so that their importance is lost or not really made clear.

Yet they manage to convey Bob Marley's message and view of life well. They mainly do this with the help of the well-known music of the reggae artist. For fans of Bob Marley's music, it will also be nice to hear it in the final film. The film just doesn't show the origins or ideas behind most of these songs.

Kingsley Ben-Adir does not sing the songs himself, but mimes them. Despite this, he manages to come across as Bob Marley through the similar ways in which he dances or expresses his energy in the film. Together with Lashana Lynch, he also knows how to convey the chemistry that Bob and Rita Marley had during their relationship. Rita Marley was a great source of inspiration for Bob for many of his songs. Furthermore, she was also a great support for his life and career.

Poor Things is a new drama comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster and The Favorite.

The brilliant, orthodox doctor Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) brings a young woman back to life and names her Bella Baxter (Emma Stone). Now that she has been brought back to life, she must also learn and experience everything about life again. Bella is so eager to learn and wants to try everything, but Godwin tries to protect her from the dark and brutal sides of the human world.

To keep Bella at home through legal means, Godwin tries to arrange the official paperwork with lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). After seeing Bella, Duncan becomes fascinated by her and tries to teach her about the more rebellious sides of the world before Godwin can take these opportunities away from her. This opens up a whole new world for Bella that she wants to learn and experience everything about.

With this film they tell a story in a playful, creative way about growing up in the human world and everything that comes with it. Learning the necessary things such as eating, but also the possibility of learning manners and what is and is not so acceptable. In addition, also about discovering where your passion lies and what you find pleasure in, but also about discovering suffering and sadness. The film also plays a playful and recognizable role in how people achieve their own milestones in their lives by learning to grow up or learning to grow up with their own child. The film also shows how people try to use each other for their own gain. Despite the uncertain and sometimes darker sides of the main character, who tries to discover how the world works, they often manage to bring this out in comic ways.

In addition to the playful sides of the story, Yorgos Lanthimos also plays in creative ways with how he portrays the film. Using different cameras, lenses and filters, he knows how to creatively portray the film in different film styles. He often knows how to place the styles well with what is happening at that moment in the film. The visual effects are striking, but do not come across as disturbing or take you out of the film. The CGI and green screen moments work more artistically with the scenes. They also have a suitable soundtrack for many scenes, which also respond well to the mood during certain moments in the film.

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has previously worked with Emma Stone as his leading lady, but this time he portrays her in new, daring ways. Emma Stone can also be seen in new, unique ways in this film. She plays well and believably the role of someone who is eager to learn everything. The make-up and costume department also know how to portray her appropriately, to go well with the scenes her characters are in. After reading the script, Mark Ruffalo had doubts about the role. Yet director Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-star Emma Stone managed to convince him to play the role. This way he comes across as a smooth, loose lawyer. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo have rightly been nominated for various film awards. Willem Dafoe also had to spend a long time in the makeup chair for this role for his character's final look. He plays a sort of Doctor Frankenstein in the film, but with some of the Frankenstein monster look. He does try to be a caring person, who tries to care for his creations with care.

Argylle is a new spy thriller directed by Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service and X-Men: First class.

Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is a successful spy writer who leads a modest life despite her spy thrillers. Yet Elly's books seem to have an influence on real life, because when she learns that the events from her books seem to have really happened.

When spy Aidan Wilde (Sam Rockwell) confronts her about this, she becomes involved in a real spy mission. Aidan and other hostile spies use her information to determine how to proceed in order to complete their missions for their own gain.

Matthew Vaughn is known for his own unique action films. Here, in addition to his work as a director, he also became involved in these other films as a co-writer or producer. At Argylle, the writing work was left independently to Jason Fuchs, who has not previously worked independently on a film script. As a result, he ended up with a messy story that remains more on the long-winded side. Jason Fuchs tries to appear clever with a number of plot twists, but these are not always well developed, making the film more vague than really cleverly written.

Matthew Vaughn or someone else would have been better off revisiting his final story. Later they could have stepped in where necessary. Then perhaps the final film could have been a little better.

Matthew Vaughn himself describes the film as an ode to action films from the 80s such as Die Hard or Lethal Weapon. With such films, the final details were just looked at a little more closely. Furthermore, there are also some repetitive scenes in the film, which resemble scenes from other films by Matthew Vaughn.

Matthew Vaughn is also known for his own style in terms of action scenes, but managed to portray them more believably in previous films. In this film, the visual effects are more noticeable, such as when characters are acting in front of a green screen.

Despite the messy aspects of the film, Sam Rockwell manages to provide good and comedic acting. Together with Bryce Dallas Howard they know how to create good moments. Bryce Dallas Howard also provides good acting, but due to the weaker script she has to portray the role in different ways with her characters. Unfortunately, this sometimes remains more on the messy side. Other actors such as Henry Cavill, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson, despite the film's promotion, play supporting roles in the film.

In Love with Bali is a new romantic comedy directed by Johan Nijenhuis, director of In Love with Ibiza and In Love with Cuba. He has now directed a trilogy of In Love with... films.

After the death of her Indian grandmother, Jenny (Anouk Maas) convinces her sister and mother to go to Bali together. Here she hopes to learn more about her family background, which will help her find happiness in her family and love life.

With this new one in love with... Johan Nijenhuis makes another similar film, only this time in a different location: Bali. Here he plays a bit with the culture and customs of this place, but otherwise the film is also about characters who are trying to start a new relationship. Apart from the different place and culture, it remains somewhat of a standard romantic comedy.

By combining the cultural history elements of Bali and the three relationship-seeking characters, the film is a bit on the messy side. Because of the fame of the in love... films, you don't get so lost in the story, but you don't really get more interested compared to the other in love... films. Furthermore, the film is also full of clichés, which appear in many romantic comedies by Johan Nijenhuis.

The downside of this film is that the main character Jenny plays an influencer who tries to record everything in the right ways for more likes. This is done in an attempt at comedy, but her character just comes across as more annoying and insufferable.

Scotoe is a new action comedy directed by Jamel Aattache, the director of Tatta's films. Actors Mohammed Chaara and Sinan Eroglu also step in as directors in addition to both playing the leading roles in this film.

Street wise detectives Sino (Sinan Eroglu) and Mo (Mohamed Chaara) grew up together in the same neighborhood in Amsterdam, so they got to know the dark, criminal world.

They both learn about a major cocaine smuggling operation, but their own Turkish and Moroccan working methods take them off the case. So they now have to continue with the case without their boss finding out to save their careers.

In addition to playing the leading roles themselves and assisting as directors, Mohammed Chaara and Sinan Eroglu also largely wrote the story of this film. They know how to insert their own comedy moments into the film. For both of them this was their first writing and directing work. They were somewhat guided by the third director and writer, but otherwise tried to keep the film more in their own style. Because of all this collaboration in and behind the film, the two characters have good chemistry together.

Due to the more novice and somewhat inexperienced sides of the two, the film is quickly reminiscent of other buddy cop films such as Bad Boys or Rush Hour, only in a different guise. The comedy can thus remain on a familiar, cheesy side, but with its own touch of humor.

The Color Purple is a remake of the 1985 film of the same name, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. This remake is based more on the Broadway musical version of The Color Purple. This remake is directed by Blitz Bazawule, director of The Burial of Kojo.

Celie (Fantasia Barrino) has been living a hard life since the loss of her friend, as the property of Mister (Colman Domingo), who abuses and mistreats her. Despite these dark sides in her life, she tries to persevere and finds her strength and hope in the mutual sisterhood of the other women in her life.

This remake tells an equal, but more musical version of the story about a woman who tries to remain strong and her own during racist and sexist times, despite all the difficult things she has to go through.

The cast members show with their acting how difficult life was for a black woman during 1900. Due to the musical aspects, the tone and emotions are more expressed during the singing and dance scenes. Many of these scenes are more on an uplifting and cheerful side due to the music beats and retain more sad song lyrics. As a result, the sadder emotional moments that the 1985 version had are somewhat lost. The cast members from the 1985 version had to act more with their emotions to express the feelings of their characters. This way the 1985 retains a more and slightly better emotional side.

People who worked in or on the original version, such as Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg, have returned to this remake as producers. Others have more of a small cameo in the film, but are recognizable for connoisseurs of the original version.

Ferrari is a biographical drama directed by Michael Mann, director of Heat and The Insider.

During the summer of 1957, former racing driver Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) finds himself in crisis. Bankruptcy of his car company is looming and his marriage to his wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) is in danger of collapsing because they have lost their only son. Furthermore, Enzo has a hidden relationship with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), where he has another son, but does not yet fully recognize him.

To get everything back on track, Enzo takes a gamble and invests a lot of money and time in the hope of racing the Mille Miglia through Italy with his car company.

Director Michael Mann has had a passion for Ferraris since he was 24. He has been working on the idea for this film since 1993. He had many ideas for this film. Then with Robert De Niro in the leading role, but with time this role was later cast by actors such as Christan Bale or Hugh Jackman. Finally in 2022, Adam Driver got the role.

The script was written over these thirty years by Troy Kennedy Martin, who based it on the book by Brock Yates. Troy Kennedy Martin died of lung cancer in 2009 and his final script appears not to have been looked at for possible further adjustments since then.

After these 14 years, the director and producers could have looked back at the final script and idea. In 14 years it has stood still for a bit too long. The final film does have some messy aspects, where the film jumps quickly from short scene to scene. Here you quickly get too much information, which means that some aspects may remain somewhat unclear during the film. In addition to the preparation of the race, racing driver and car, the film is also a lot about Enzo, his failing marriage and more hidden relationship. Because of all these different aspects of Enzo Ferrari's life, the film can sometimes seem a bit more indeterminate and therefore a bit longer-winded.

The cast members do a nice job, but due to the more unclear, long sides of the film, not everyone gets the same amount of time to properly build up their characters. For example, you don't really get to know certain racing drivers well and you don't always know who is who during the racing scenes. This can also make you feel a little less involved in racing.

Michael Mann did a good job portraying the final film. Furthermore, the costumes, hairstyles and make-up help to place the time in which the film takes place.