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Pilot 4/5;; Deep Throat 2/5: Cheap and boring introduction to the mythology of X Files. Squeeze 5/5 I like to move it, move it, he likes to move it move it. Conduit 4/5: The first hint of a much-frequented "kidnapping" topic later on. Unlike most of them, however, well executed. The Jersey Devil 3/5: The creators were able to take advantage of an interesting theme only at the beginning and at the end. It´s an average episode that could (and should) have been much better and shorter. Shadows 3/5: Psychokinesis deserves a better entrée on stage. Routine episode. Ghost in the Machine 2/5: Very weak, and even ridiculous over time, variation on a machine with own brains. Boring. Ice 5/5: "We're not who we are..." Or it another words how it turns out when you shoot a variation on Thing in the setting of X Files. Simply brilliant. Space 3/5It could have been an excellent episode if the director hadn't approached the supernatural elements in a such ridiculous way. Fallen Angel 4/5: Mulder vs. Army, exploring the site of a possible landing of "you-know-what". Eve 5/5: "We just knew..."Fire 4/5If an arsonist has a style it´s is a joy to watch him working. Beyond the Sea 5/5 If Dana and Fox swap their usual roles, if you give them brilliant Brad Douriff as their adversary and if you back everything by a great script, it just can't be a bad episode. This one is one of the greatest highlights of the whole X Files. Gender Bender 4/5: This one is one of the absolute highlights of the whole of X Files. (S)He is the ultimate aphrodisiac that leaves only corpses behind. Good topic, but it should have been more ambiguous. Lazarus 3/5: Swapping bodies/souls. Interesting topic, but only mediocre execution. It would have been better without the supernatural. Young at Heart 3/5: Average and easy to forget episode in all respects. E.B.E. 5/5: "I'm wondering which lie to believe." The creators, unlike many other episodes, have followed the golden rule that says that the viewer is most interested in what remains hidden. Miracle Man 4/5: Praise the Lord! Shapes 3/5: Native American legends about lycanthropy, Native American reservations, and a ranch in the mountains. The first half is great, but at the end the atmosphere disappears. Darkness Falls 5/5: The episodes where Scully and Mulder are cut off from the world in a hopeless situation have always been the showpiece of X Files.This one is probably the best of them. Atmospheric peak of the first series. Plus the exceptional finish. Tooms 5/5: From the title it's clear who is this episode about. As with the first meeting, Eugene Tooms is charismatic. Extremely. Assistant of the FBI Director Walter Skinner appears here for the first time. Born Again 4/5: Good topic, excellent opening half, but then it all gets fragmented into a predictable mediocre movie. Roland 3/5: Another of the episodes where the supernatural storyline is rather detrimental to it. The Erlenmeyer Flask 4/5: The final scene should close one chapter, but at the same time make viewers want to watch more. That worked, especially in the final quarter hour.

The Hurt Locker 1945. Tangible subliminal tension, the more minimalist the more consistent the study of characters in the point break situations (literally), no black-and-white moral questions of collective guilt (taking the skeletons out from the closets, kind of Danish equivalent of displacing German citizens in Czechoslovakia) and all this is topped by impressive subdued performances and unusually apt (and chilling!) musical undertone. It will squeeze emotions out of you through already in recent years trademark (hello Lindholm) Danish reserved approach in, which is delusive with its apparent Nordic coldness. However, the opposite is true, as it gets stuck under the skin more than anything else. Clearly the best (non)-war movie in recent years.

As for stylization, it's pretty much unique. However, it's the stylization I’m not happy about, because the individual styles (poetics of children's adventure, more serious tone and absolutely crazy) do not match each other at all. It does not create one cohesive whole, but it goes on like this for a while and then like that, which breaks down the whole concept and therefore the emotional level does not work, that largely determines its success. So no matter how hard it tries to combine "Little Rambo viewed by Wes Anderson's perspective", the effort produced no results, which although is not boring and nice to watch and quickly passes by, but just as quickly (if not faster) gets out of your head.

Running time is excessively long (especially the third quarter is a bit short of breath), but otherwise it's a good old psycho and perverted ambivalent "Verhoeven movie" based on the suffocating erotic tension of the pathological relationship and (not cheap!) controversy touching several genres, which traditionally uses seemingly incompatible topics. Although it is not for everyone, I would still recommend it to everyone. If for nothing else, then for the enchanting super-performance of Isabelle. Something like this has been seen a few times in a decade and who knows, maybe even less than that.

The potential of the scheme "Red Dead Redemption MMORPG by Philip K. Dick" is unprecedented, but still suffers from excessive exposure. Because most of the time only future great events are implied and the world is being explored including its specific rules on the spot and behind the scenes, so as a result there is somehow no necessary space for the characters themselves. In mostly badly affects the living characters, which are sadly too one-dimensional. In any case, this multi-layered moral reflection is so well played out and captivating that the viewer will dive deep into it. I'm just wondering if the short story form à la The Black Mirror wouldn't fit more, because the power of these themes is based on how each viewer will approach them deep inside. Thus, only time will tell whether the creators will deal with this pitfall with honor or whether they will keep repetitively doing the same all the time.

It’s good to know that dysfunctional families and caring grandmothers with freezers overflowing with cheap long-ago expired food are the same in Japan as well as in the middle of nowhere. Koreeda again approached in a traditional civilian way and with a theme that eleven out of ten directors would not have been able to do without emotional blackmail or at least some cliché. But this doesn’t apply to him. It is a pity that the silence before the storm is far too long (however not boring), given that the "storm" itself is too short.

Marvel and Netflix blaxploitation in the form of an excellent miniseries (with an excellent soundtrack), which is, however, to its own detriment sadly fragmented into thirteen-episode format. Especially the second half has poorer quality and is based on to excessive level that does not correspond to the first half. Although Cage and Misty can drive the movie in many weak moments, but they noticeably lack a good opponent. The bad guys are not explicitly only a makeweight without potential, but they are either insipid (Cottonmouth) or conceived in a way I don’t like (Diamondback), let alone when backed by Fisk and Kilgrav. It's definitely not bad, but it's the weakest (albeit still decent) movie of "Marflix's" television universe.

Where the original version is now acceptable only through nostalgic and really strong pink glasses of someone who grew up watching this, the modern version is of so high quality and packed with everything that you can watch (our children would make a nice excuse why you watch it) it without any harm, and in some scenes (especially the conscious meta-dada fantasy animated series about Crognard, which Mikey watches in every episode) and you can truly enjoy it.

Hokum. This word describes it best. However, entertaining and well-paced, where the viewer is flooded by some many jokes, gags, off-the-wall things and ideas that he does not even have time to realize which are good ones and which aren't. The great thing is that the creators manage to balance on the edge of entertainment that entertains the youngest children, but does not forget their older entourage. And it mostly go hand in hand and not in a way "now gag for adults and now some escapade for the kids". Typically "satirical" scenes about parenting, busyness or a corporate career, in which, however, some animal making faces or falls somewhere. As a result, both children and parents are laughing together. Moreover, thanks to episodes from the life of a boy "who wanted a ninja brother to play with", it also has an emotional impact, which one would not even expect from such a grotesque farce without plot that is based on never-ending escapades. Moreover, neither the voiceover (which is successful) nor the translation that someone obviously clearly enjoyed (the son of an employee!) spoils the parental duty to take the kids to the movies.

The title makes the film a disservice than anything else. For example, many viewers would have taken it better to call it "Fast and Brisk", and without the inevitable (whether greater or lesser) disappointment that the duo of absolute classic movies of the silver screen, which have survived and will survive for decades, is remade in the form of an disposal relaxing movie that will soon be forgotten. On the other hand, there is the not inconsiderable fact that although it is a western second-rate one-time watch, it is a surprisingly fun and properly driven Western second-rate one-time watch, which is not afraid to use the screen to the fullest. In other words, it is consumable and unnecessary, but not bad. And in purely genre moments (graded tension before the first big shootout, etc.) it will keep you entertained. That´s for sure.