A Private Life (4*): J’écoute (I’m Listening).

A One Mann’s Movies review of “A Private Life” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’15’). Original title: Vie privée A lady of many talents, Jodie Foster attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a French-language prep-school, and so is fluent in French. (She has in fact done the dubbing for the French … Read more

The Phoenician Scheme (4*): At Last… A Wes Anderson That Delivers Style AND Substance.

One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Phoenician Scheme”. Wes Anderson delivers artfully clever entertainment. 4/5.

The French Dispatch (15): So many 5* moments, but the pudding is over-egged.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The French Dispatch” (2021). (Full title “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun“). As another viewing on my recent trans-Atlantic plane ride, I caught up with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”: a movie I managed to miss due to one of my (many!) Covid infections. All of … Read more

Oxygen (15): a taut mystery horror/thriller that goes off in surprising directions!

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Oxygen” (2021). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: In “Oxygen” (or “Oxygene” in the original French version) Liz Hansen (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a sealed chamber with no memory of why she is there or how she got there. Her only “companion” is ‘Milo’: the Alexa-like operating … Read more