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Kingsman: The Secret Service

action 02:03:00
A playful and entertaining production dealing with the world of secret society, bringing to mind classic action movies, James Bond intrigue, Die Hard sense of honor. The aura of English humor and manners, the addition of contemporary backstreet boy and the appreciated appearance of Colin Firth made this film entertaining and enjoyable. Can you ask for more?  ...
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Magic in the Moonlight

Colin Firth 02:01:00
What I like about Woody Allen's productions is the setting he chooses for his films. From Paris to Rome and New York, from urban to rural, pastoral and modern. The setting of this film is doubtlessly magical as magical is the whole film. And its peculiar humor complements it both by the romanticism and art. Delicious dish sprinkled by the play of its...
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Jeune et Jolie/ Young and Beautiful

Francois Ozon 01:57:00
Doubtlessly teenagers nowadays grow up faster than they used to. The level of violence and lack of innocence can be seen everywhere we cast our eyes. Not so long ago a teacher in Barcelona was killed by a thirteen-year-old student with a crossbow. Are there still any values held by the young ones, or are they just deprived of the beginning by the...
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Cracks

boarding school 01:15:00
Boarding schools are always intriguing by the magical aura of desolation, their distance to parents and deprivation of ordinary circumstances of life. Boarding schools are schools at school and schools after schools. Interestingly though, boarding schools for girls always connote with evil, either on the side of girls: their mischievous nature, jealousy, competition, constant comparisons. Due to the lack of comradeship, instead of...
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Lawrence Anyways

love 01:14:00
Do you fall in love with a human being or do you fall in love with sex? What if the sex of the beloved is changed during the course of your relationship? Do you love a product created within decades of man and woman division, cultural conventions, gender, patriarchal family, or do you still love the same human being? Do you need the...
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The Shipping News

Julianne Moore 01:13:00
Don't you love it when the film takes you to a completely different place on earth when you can forget about your past problems and current worries, about the home you are living in, about the people who hurt you? Wouldn't you like to begin again? Don't you love the cathartic experience of someone's else pain, loss and the realization that there can...
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Breathe in

Felicity Jones 01:12:00
Family life on the verge of breaking up. A friendship on the verge of a romance. An interesting story of a burnt out teacher and an inspirational student. Love and desire which might have serious consequences. A wise film about the continual lack of certainty that accompanies our lives. Human and family bonds are weakened and strengthened according to the circumstances. We constantly...
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Lollipop Monster

children 01:12:00
European society is still divided into classes, even though the 21st century was welcomed by us over a decade ago. Rural vs urban. Blue-collar workers and white-collar workers. Simple and intellectual. Popular vs high-brow. I wish everyone would be classless since it makes all human interactions unprejudiced and devoid of financial status expectations. This is a fantastic film about a relationship between two...
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Der Kreis/ The Circle

gays 01:10:00
Sometimes it's good to see a film which wasn't invented by a group of fiction addicts and in a more down-to-earth manner tells something about real life. Relationships are difficult, human attachment to another human being has its stages and layers. Everybody craves true love and a lifelong relationship. We trick ourselves into career, work, money, material things but all you need is...
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Bite Size

diet 02:06:00
Global village equipped us with something more than the internet, the same films, the same brands, the same computer games. Global village of our civilization provided tons of tasty fast foods which we all like consuming. From time to time it changes into often, from often it turns into every day. Even though Europe still keeps traditional cuisine running clockwork, there are more...
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Virgin Suicides

children 08:17:00
I remember when I saw it for the first time, expecting it to be a teen drama with a twist. I was shocked. Since then I watched it many times, not with the intention of tormenting myself with the consolation of final death, as I'm against suicide in any form (think about people who you're living behind), but as a kaleidoscope of women....
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The Royal Tenenbaums

divorce 08:16:00
A film for every family. The complicated nature of three geniuses facing a family crisis in their home. An estranged father. A mother in love. Siblings fully grown-up but unable to face the bleak reality of adulthood. Wes Anderson tends to be a genius himself when it comes to portraying the vivid nature of his characters. The intricacies of the plot are a...
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Fried Green Tomatoes

abuse 08:15:00
A classic story of two Americas. Modern day one dealing with contemporary problems of consumptive capitalism and typically middle class marriage problems, and America in the past, racially prejudiced, still growing and developing. A relationship between two women in two historically apart moments of time. Two unhappy marriages and two very different friendships. Even though it was filmed over 20 years ago, it...
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Baraka

beauty 08:14:00
Don't you want to have a taste of a film which will broaden your horizons by means of thousand images? Seemingly without a plot, overwhelming you with the magnitude of our planet, providing pictures of the beauty and cruelty of our world. There's no greater plot than the scenarios written by the decades of our civilizations, by wars waged, systems overturned, racial differences...
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Clouds of Sils Maria

acting 08:14:00
A relationship within a relationship. A play within a play. Modern age film inception. A close bond between women who are divided by time and experience, while youth and life-wisdom are what attracts them to each other. In the mountains of Switzerland there's an actress, an assistant and a remake of a story once told but, by sheer coincidence of events, retold again....
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Perfume

Ben Whishaw 22:57:00
We are always intrigued by people on the side of evil. They carry out what we can (I hope) only fantasize about, what, out of sheer fear of being found out and traced by the police, we never fulfill. The danger of making such stories is that they might prove inspirational for the more maniac-like individuals. Perfume is sophisticated. It comprises the sacred...
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Gemma Bovery

France 22:55:00
Sometimes I'm under the impression that people in the past were far smarter than we are today. They used different, more sophisticated language. They considered their significant life decisions significantly longer than we do it today. They read more books and spent less time online as online wasn't even possible. Still, I do appreciate it when classic novels are inspirations for contemporary stories...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.