A Mann on a mission to review movies
A One Mann’s Movies review of “One Battle After Another” (2025, 4*, 15). Paul Thomas Anderson has followed up “Licorice Pizza” from 2021 with this very different action comedy-thriller. I…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Romeria” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 2*, ’15’). I’m afraid my run of good films (imho) at the LFF had to come…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Exit 8” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’15’). Original title: 8-ban deguchi. “Exit 8” is based on a Japanese-penned video game…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “My Father’s Shadow” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’12A’). In “My Father’s Shadow”, we are dunked into the chaos of the…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Promised Sky” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’12A’). Original title: Promis le ciel. With the appalling resurgence of fascism across the…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Enzo” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’15’). No, not an early prequel to “Ferrari“. “Enzo” came across to me as a…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sound of Falling” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3*, ’15’). Original title: In die Sonne schauen My first LFF screening for 2025,…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” (2025, 4*, PG). As a trilogy of films, Downton could have continued a downward slide down the rubbish chute.…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sorry, Baby” (2025, 3.5*, 15). At one point in this, college professor Agnes (Eva Victor) is class-appraising Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”. A male student pipes…
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Heads of State” (2025, 3.5*, 12). This Amazon Prime offering is definitely NOT going to get any Oscar buzz. But as a mindless, park-your-brain-at-the-door…
