Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Oh. My. God. If “show, don’t tell” is one of the best narrative techniques, this movie surely makes great use of it. There’s absolutely no dialogue, yet the movie is filled with all sorts of communication,, giving characters depth and personality. Without saying a single word, this movie tells a great story of survival, friendship and overcoming hardships in a world slowly falling apart. It will make you sad and happy, fill you with awe and appreciate every second of it. The storytelling is fantastic, the music is solid and perfectly complements an animation that is vibrant and filled with energy. Seven popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. PS: I never thought I’d be bawling because of a lemur.

Bonus trivia:

• The entire movie has been created and rendered only using the free and open-source software Blender.
• The team was very adamant in getting all of the “voices” to be done by real animals, so they recorded real animals for the movie.
• Because the budget of the film was so tight, there are no deleted scenes from the film. Every scene produced is in the final cut of the movie.
• The drawing of Cat from inside the house was drawn by director Gints Zilbalodis. It was the only concept art he ever made for the film, since everything else was modeled directly in Blender to save time.

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After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

Absolutely delicious movie about a robot interacting with animals and the other way around. Funny, quirky, heartfelt and just generally awesome. Five popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault.

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It’s not a loop, it’s a countdown: Alba is trapped in her weekend, forced to relive it over and over again, but each repetition gets a bit shorter.

Also known as “The Incredible Shrinking Weekend”, this is not your average time loop movie. Although the weekend keeps repeating itself, and it gets stranger with every loop. Four popcorns for a good heartfelt movie. It also features one of the best cinematic contextual techniques I’ve seen in a movie, which makes it go into the Movie Vault.

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When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

A great road movie where the protagonist goes on a trip across the country and across his life. Brilliantly written, excellently acted, one of the best movies of all time. Funny at times, heart-shattering in others, it’s a masterpiece that everyone should watch. Six popcorns and rides into the Movie Vault.

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A successful lawman’s plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

This is an A-lister megablockbuster. Released in the second Golden Age of Western movies (including here Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, Legends of the Fall, Maverick, and even Back to the Future III), this is definitely one of the best movies focused on the story of Wyatt Earp (magnificently played by Kurt Russell). Also starring Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy Zane, even Terry O’Quinn having a role. The action is so gripping, I didn’t even realize when the first hour passed. Brilliant movie and definitely one to have in your library. Six popcorns for a masterpiece that rides into the Movie Vault.

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In the season, Seong Gi-hun and the players fight for survival in ever-deadlier games. In-ho welcomes the VIPs while his brother Jun-ho continues the search for the island, unaware of a traitor in their midst.

Annoyingly many subplots make this show seem very unfocused, by the third episode I started to skip ahead here and there, as some scenes were fairly meh. The games have some amount of logic but fall apart in believability very fast, the characters swinging their decisions at every step. We have a secret society which resembles Eyes Wide Shut, some undercover exfiltration operation, some “let’s find an island, but actually we kinda don’t want to”, and screaming. A lot of screaming. Also the characters that are speaking in English having their voices very badly dubbed is actually annoying. Two popcorns for the Squid Screaming Game and thank God there will not be a fourth season.

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Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling’s landmark television series.

While not a bad selection of segments, it unfortunately remakes some of the most popular episodes of the 60s and this is why it falls flat. The ideas are good, the stories are gripping, but it’s not someting to re-watch a lot. Four popcorns, but mostly because the underlying material was brilliant.

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Two parallel stories about characters trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road - for a very long time.

Absolutely underrated movie. I won’t say too much about it, but I really loved the idea of “being stuck in a repeating situation, something like Groundhog Day, but spacially, not time-wise. All in all, it’s a mind-bending twisted movie which will not only entertain, but also make you think. Seven popcorns and this goes into the Movie Vault and is definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen this year.

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Romania. The near future. The Russian Federation gives back the Thesaurus to Romania. Three boys and a girl, a dog, thieves, mobsters and a bag with millions. All in a summer weekend. Live the moment, take the money, the car and… Run!

One of the best Romanian movies, something akin to “Lock, Stock..” with a lot of funny scenes and many quotes that entered pop culture. I think this is the cRomanian movie that gets closest to the status of “cult movie”. Six popcorns, I loved to re-watch this after more than 15 years.

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Set after the battle between Godzilla and the Titans, revealing that monsters are real, follows one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to Monarch.

Big budget, Kurt Russell, kaiju and japanese chicks. Apple TV sure knows how to properly make a big budget movie and it’s a decent watch. Four popcorns, mostly for the kaiju.

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Christian Wolff applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief’s murder.

Thug-Sheldon is back with another movie where not-undercover Batman is beating mobsters left and right, but with maths and kids do internet things when mechanical keyboard typing intensifies and mouse ratchet scrolls go brrr. I thought we were past the “zoom in, enhance ENHANCE” shit in movies. I initially thought that movie is a passable watch when you’re half asleep, but when Batman started to sync dance to country music like in some sort of redneck Indian movie. One popcorns, and is one of the worst movie seen all year and what saves it is that someone says at some point “contadores” in Spanish.

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In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.

The movie that shows that Timothy Chandelier can actually act if the setting is right and if the role is good. The soundtrack is very good, the other acting is good and Timothy Courgette does a good job at standing and holding a cigarette. Also this movie is a good a reminder that Edward Norton still exists and can carry a movie big time. Five popcorns.

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