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Is there a cop to save the world? ★★★ ☆☆

By Akiva Schaffer

Essential

The fourth part of the saga remains faithful to its fundamentals scato and burlesque. A shot of politically incorrect inside which Liam Neeson reveals an irresistible comic nature.

For the fourth part of this saga, Seth MacFarlane (TED) in production and Akiva Schaffer (neighbors of the third type) to the realization have decided to return to the sources of the saga and to go to the background humor that stains which constitutes its DNA. All against the backdrop of an investigation obviously abracadabrant led by the son of Drebin (Liam Neeson) after the death of an engineer with supervisors, the boss of the victim, a tech giant who developed a diabolical machine capable of bringing humans back to their barbaric nature. And without being revolutionary, we feast in front of the alert chain of Gags, the Comica screw of a Liam Neeson on Fire but also the writing of the main female character, the sister of the murdered engineer, playing with all the pictures of the sulphurous blonde to better return them. And it is thanks to her (that Pamela Anderson’s deliciously camps) that there is a cop to save the world? succeeds in registering with fluidity in his time. And demonstrates that we can always laugh at everything, taking into account the evolution of society and the gaze on women for example, without denying or selfless.

Thierry Cheze

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First like a lot

Overwhelmed ★★★★ ☆

By Sarah Friedland

Sarah (Kathleen Chalfant, exceptional) is 85 years old. And this afternoon there, this elegant woman was even more preceded than usual for what seems to be an appointment with a man younger than her. A lunch before going together on vacation. Except that this man is not a potential lover but his son, whom she suffers from an Alzheimer’s and that the surprise destination is that of the medical house where Sarah will spend the rest of these days. The magnificent and confusing first 15 minutes of this first long gives the tone of what is going to follow, where Sarah Friedland finds the right tone, never leading or cuters, by distilling here and there irresistible humor features, to talk about this dirty illness. Clean film both in its dialogues and in the situations that are deployed there, in low fire tightens your heart without manipulating yourself, marrying the dignity of her heroine fighting to the end to enhance the little memory that she has left.

Thierry Cheze

First a love

Together ★★★ ☆☆

By Michael Shanks

Dave Franco and Alison Brie embody Tim and Millie, a young couple who decides one day to leave the city for the countryside. He is a failed musician who aged badly. She, a teacher who provides financially. During a hike near their new house, they discover a mysterious underground structure. Tim drinks the stagnant water of a pond (bad idea) and the next day … Their legs are slightly glued. What could have turned to the agreed body horror (like a domestic remake of The Substance) becomes a creaky and fun metaphor on love co -depence. Tim demanded space? He suddenly develops a local need for proximity with Millie. Millie wanted contact? She will be served. Shanks skillfully avoids the thought trap on toxic relationships and favors efficiency thanks to the two actors who brilliantly sail between conjugal comedy and carnal nightmare.

Gaël Golhen

The fire test ★★★ ☆☆

Of Aurélien Peyre

Hugo has always spent his vacation in July-August on a small Atlantic island. But in the summer that Aurélien Peyre films in his first long, that of his 19 years, will not look like any other. First of all because he arrives there with Queen, his girlfriend, esthetician whose verve and eccentricity are detonated with her shyness. Then because Hugo was physically transformed to the point that his friends struggle to recognize the one whose overweight they have always mocked. Peyre recounts here with great finesse the violence of the group in the face of the individual entangled in his complexes and the inability of the latter to heal his status as a victim, ready to do anything to be accepted by people who do not like him, even if it means hurting the only one he really likes. The fire of fire strikes with the quality of writing of its characters and its way of shaking up the priori. Starting with Queen, remarkably embodied by a newcomer, Anja Verderosa.

Thierry Cheze

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Brief History of A Family ★★★ ☆☆

By Jianjie Lin

It all starts with a game of play on a basketball court in a Chinese high school where Wei, an unique, spoiled and extroverted son of a wealthy family slightly hurts one of his classmates, Shuo, from a modest background and with a diametrically opposite character: introvert and silent. To be forgiven, Wei then invites Shei to play video game games at home. Where his parents will therefore meet a boy whose modesty, discretion and the hardworking side tap them right away. Since he is at the antipodes of their son. Over the days, Shuo will take more and more in this family. What Wei first saw very well, suddenly released from constant attention and parental pressure. Before this rapprochement really ends up becoming a suspect and taking the outset of a machination. But who manipulates who? This teenager trying to get adopted to access a wealthy life? Or this family hoping to make Shei one of their own to finally have a son that lives up to their expectations? For his first long long, Jianjie Lin signs a psychological thriller taking, with a controlled clinical bias, which has the behavior of the elite of Chinese society today with this idea that the obsession with competition has left the field of the work sphere to gangrener family relationships. And this to a last straight line which holds all its promises.

Thierry Cheze

Looped ★★★ ☆☆

Of Junta Yamaguchi

Japanese cinema seems to have a tropism for time loop films. A year after a Monday, Junta Yamaguchi (who had already confronted the genre with Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes) encloses in an inn in the heart of a snowy valley his employees and their customers who discover that the same 2 minutes are repeating themselves endlessly … The starting point of a devilishly inventive and well -shaped script or joyfully fantastic and joyfully fantastic and joyfully fantastic, burlesque.

Thierry Cheze

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First a moderately love

Nobody 2 ★★ ☆ From

Of Timo Tjahjanto

Four years after the first part, Hutch Mansell is back. This all-and-world metamorphosed, after an attempted burglary, in a killer with unsuspected lethal skills owes 30 million dollars to the organization he tries to reimburse. But, somewhat overworked, now he goes on vacation, at the request of his wife, with all his family in an Arkansas amusement park where obviously nothing will go as planned. And no matter how much we look for, it is difficult to understand why it took four writers to trush a plot at this point agreed with such awaited twists and turns. Obviously, the staging of Bastons and shootings in Gogo is of undeniable efficiency. Obviously Bob Odenkirk is once again irresistible. But that is enough to do this sequel something other than a copy- paste a little lazy from the first Nobody.

Thierry Cheze

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Sally Bauer, against ★★ ☆ From

From Frida Kempff

The “counter-current” of the title has a double meaning here. He expresses both the challenge that his heroine launched, the Swedish Sally Bauer, a single mother of 30 years – cross the Channel at La Nage -, the reaction of misunderstanding of her family (and more broadly from Swedish society) when she announced it and the moment when she undertook this feat: in 1939, when the shadow of the Second World War is more and more threatening. So no need to specify the exciting aspect of this story. Only problem, but major, the prism of a fiction staged with such a school classicism does not give it thanks or even weakens the feat both sporty and feminist accomplished. We especially want to see a documentary or read a biography of this champion like no other.

Thierry Cheze

And also

Karate Kid: Legends, by Jonathan Entwistle

The world of Wishy, Toby Genkel and Jens Moller

Papamobile, from Sylvain Estibal

The covers

French Connection, by William Friedkin

Julie (in 12 chapters), by Joachim Trier