La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste Of Things) (2024)
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait Of A Lady on Fire) (2019)
War Machine (2026)
Firebreak (2026)
Brick (2025)
Mercy (2026)
Lost In Translation (2003) ///
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait Of A Lady on Fire) (2019) Suffused through aching memory, tentative friendship between focused painter Noémie Merlant and reluctant aristocrat Adèle Haenel intensifies to compelling affair. Told with a restrained, embracing touch, political and emotional themes resolve with balm of lasting art.
War Machine (2026) Stripped down sci-fi action as tortured loner Alan Ritchson and assorted recruits survive U.S. Army Ranger training before facing ferocious threat of mechanized alien invasion. Staged with sweaty intensity and robust effects, character definition remains less persuasive and conclusion veers to nationalistic parody.
Firebreak (2026) Anonymously polished style sets up gradually threatening forest inferno as widowed Belén Cuesta's daughter goes missing and suspicion falls on jumpy neighbour Enric Auquer. Unexpected narrative detours expand on pervading theme of loss without elevating character or mild thrills.
Brick (2025) Despite hesitant opening, once work consumed Matthias Schweighöfer and unhappy Ruby O. Fee wake to find apartment building walled in by impenetrable future tech barrier, storytelling builds layers of satisfying mystery involving ragged collection of neighbours desperately seeking way out. Undone by flat resolution.
Mercy (2026) Misconceived, near-future thriller establishes dictatorial AI judge Rebecca Ferguson giving cop Chris Pratt ninety minutes to prove he didn't murder wife or face immediate execution. Jettisoning potent contemporary themes of pervasive control, scrappy visual aesthetic flattens tension.
Lost In Translation (2003) Bittersweet, observant eye captures brief, drifting friendship between fading celebrity Bill Murray and unsure Scarlett Johansson as isolation in Tokyo bringing them together. Pervading sense of melancholy accentuates acute humor, laughs amid keen characterization and involving atmosphere.
