Father Mother Sister Brother (3*): Engaging Short-Films, Crudely Glued Together

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Father Mother Sister Brother”. (2026, 3*, 15). Although a celebrated movie auteur, I must admit to being a Jim Jarmusch virgin. Here he returns to a portmanteau approach with “Father Mother Sister Brother”: segments, discrete from each other but all loosely based around siblings meeting up again after a … Read more

Sing Sing (5*): A Glorious Feel-Good Story of the Worst in Society Finding Salvation Through Arts.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Sing Sing”. A brilliant, uplifting masterpiece of a film. Terrific stuff. 5/5.

One Mann’s Movies: Films of the Year 2024

#onemannsmovies My personal choice of Top 20 Movies of 2023.

Megalopolis (15): Utterly Pretentious Nonsense.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Megalopolis”. Francis Ford Coppola delivers a pretentious dud of unimaginable scale. 1/5.

Society of the Snow (15): “This is a place where living is impossible”.

A sad Roberto Canessa (Matías Recalt) sat in the snow surveying a mountainous vista in front of him in J.A. Bayona's Society of the Snow

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Society of the Snow” (2024). J.A. Bayona has delivered some cracking films over the years. 2012’s “The Impossible” was the definitive movie of the 2004 Tsunami disaster and 2016’s “A Monster Calls”, another very personal disaster movie in a way, was a masterpiece that made my No. 2 … Read more