Black Bag (4.5*): Great Harry Palmer Vibes From This Slick Spy Thriller.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Black Bag”. Suave and sophisticed spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh. Top notch stuff. 4.5/5.
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Next Goal Wins (12): For Once, Waititi Doesn’t Go Over the Top With His Comedy.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Next Goal Wins” (2023). I’ve had something of a love/hate relationship with Taika Waititi’s output. When he is good, he is very good. But I’ve often found – both in his acting roles and in his directorial features (“Thor: Love and Thunder” being particularly heinous) – that he has … Read more
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (15): Would the last straight woman in Stockholm turn off the lights?
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (2018). Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: Certification: UK: 15; US: R. You’ve gotta love a Scandi-thriller. Well, that was until last year’s hopeless Michael Fassbender vehicle “The Snowman” which devalued the currency better than Brexit has done to the pound! The mother of them all … Read more
One Mann's Movies Film Review: The Snowman (2017).
“We’re trudging through the slush”. Unlike its animated namesake, “The Snowman” is not a good film. Frustratingly it has all the right ingredients: A story by bestselling Nordic writer Jo Nesbø; Gorgeously photogenic snowy scenes of Oslo and Bergen; A stellar cast (Michael Fassbender (“Alien: Covenant“); Rebecca Ferguson (“Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation“); J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash“); … Read more