Naomie Harris is borderline terrible in an otherwise pretty great movie. All the roles are archetypes you get in black coming of age movies, but where the other actors mainly stay on the right side her performance plays like a bad parody of strung out junkies in 90s Spike Lee knockoffs. She probably got nominated…

I have a feeling there are several different versions of this movie, but the one I saw in Norway had its positives and negatives.

Alternative facts? Is that you Donald?

To me it is a mistake to think about his latest movie as separate works. Malick seems to be doing a series of movies about periods in his own life through fictional counterparts (Tree Of Life = Early Years; To The Wonder = A failed marriage of an emotionally distant man to a lively foreign woman; Knight Of Cups = His…

This may be a joke I don't get, but just in case: the next Olympics is in Pyeongchang, South Korea not in Pyongyang, North Korea.

As a filtyhy foreigner the thought of Beyonce being the pinnacle of modern populat music is both kind of amusing and also kind of depressing…

Yeah, Blue Ruin was a top 10 movie of its year while Green Room, though great, was more of a top 20-25. Saulnier is a massive talent though…

It is one of the few films I have come close to walking out of (I would have walked out of Titanic after an hour if I hadn't known that the ending would be spectacularish). I just ended up hoping that James Woods would kill the plasticky leads and end it all, but to no avail.

It is that fear that makes the film; the business world (and world in general I guess) is so twisted and alienating that there are no jokes anymore because anything could be true or could be regarded by someone in power as true so noone dare question anything. It is deeply sad in the end.

The execution of Arrival is solid (and Adams not being nominated feels wrong), but I just felt that for a movie about communication and love it was a cold movie. It was like it took the much maligned love speech Hathaway made in Interstellar and dialed it down too much; it felt a bit afraid of the big emotions.

To me it is just the other way around; La La Land and Moonlight are the two best Oscar nominees but La La Land is just about perfectly executed while Moonlight has some imperfections (thought Naomie Harris was bad, especially in first third) and works basically because of the general idea is so solid. I think La La…

Fruitvale is a movie that lacks the gut to portray the real character that got killed truthfully. He is portrayed as some kind of saint who have had some problems but loves his mother, is nice to strangers and tries to stay away from drugs and that is a problem; it makes the movie say that a troubled but nice kid like…

Whiplash is easily better. Fruitvale and Creed are well made and pretty good movies, but they are gutless creations afraid of alienating a white audience; basically Sidney Poitier movies without an actor as good as Poitier could be…

The only movie where I found Emma Wason really attractive was in Noah of all things.

I can maybe stretch to the actors, but there are easily 20-30 movies I have seen this last year that are thematically bolder and better directed than Fences; I will probably end up seeing betweeen 200 and 300 movies made in 2016 so that is still pretty ok.

That is the most annoying thing; the academy (rightly; they were not good enough) snubbed african american actors and movies last year and this year they nominated two movies that were much less interesting and much worse than those of last year instead of nominating anything challenging or interesting this year out…

One of my teaching colleagues is from Iceland. He is also a giant. So no.

I have a feeling that what we call good direction is often really good editing; if the director frames everything properly with good coverage and everything is kept in focus and the actors are decent a great editor can make the footage come alive. When the director is actually good as well you can get something…

I would argue that the movie is better than this review would suggest (I thought it was generally compelling storywise and well acted if conventionally shot), the main problem for me after thinking about it was the ending that ended up being uplifting and kind of feelgood which just feels wrong, it should have ended…

I will probably never forget that scene even if the movie never clicked for me. Mark Strong was really good though, he really committed himself to grounding the lunacy and made the movie watchable almost single handedly.