One Mann’s Movies: Films of the Year 2024
#onemannsmovies My personal choice of Top 20 Movies of 2023.
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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.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (12): “It’s the mileage”… and he’s got a lot on the clock.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023). It’s the summer of 1981 and myself and the illustrious soon-to-be-Mrs Movie Man go into a little fleapit of a cinema in the middle of Inverness to watch “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – a film neither of us knew anything … Read more
Pieces of a Woman (15): delivering with cushion biting tension.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Pieces of a Woman” (2020). Bob the Movie Man’s Rating: “Pieces of a Woman” Plot summary: “Pieces of a Woman” tells the story of a home birth that goes horribly wrong. It follows the different forms of grief that are followed by Martha (Vanessa Kirby), her husband Sean (Shia … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Fury (2014)
“Ideals are peaceful, History is violent” I can’t make my mind up about “Fury”. As an escapist war film, it delivers well in a clichéd sort of way. But is it a true reflection on what the latter stages of WW2 were actually like? I doubt it. This film certainly doesn’t paint American soldiers in … Read more