The story is well written, the cast is full of A-listers, playing very good roles, the humor is brilliant. The music and cinematography are excellent, as well.

A bit long for casual watching, at 2 and a half hours, but the time passed super fast, because the movie has a great pacing, the story is brilliant and it’s well acted. Do yourself a favor, look the movie up and see it. It’s worth it.

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The set design is beautiful, the costumes are excellent, the A-list actors are performing really great. Guillermo del Toro did a great job with this movie and nothing less was expected of this. It’s weird, it’s mysterious, and it glues you to the screen.

Besides the nominations for Best Picture, it has been nominated for best Production Design, Costumes and Cinematography. And it nails them all.

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Flee is a good documentary, a strong emotional story. If you don’t like indie slow-paced movies, this is definitely not for you. While I liked the story itself, I didn’t like the pacing that much. The music is nice though, the voice acting is okey, the animation is either love-or-hate, and it took a bit for the story to grasp me.

I liked the usage of animation to protect the identity of the protagonist, especially given his situation. I also like the mix with news snippets, archive footage, but some war archive videos are unpleasant, (including dead people), and it’s definitely not an animation for the little ones.

All in all, this is a good film about war, its horrors, and the scars it leaves on people, both physical and mental.

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The movie brings a bit of inside information about the Royal House and Diana’s Christmas holiday when she decided to end her marriage with Prince Charles. It’s a sometimes-surrealist descent into madness, showing the darker side of Diana’s story, about her mental issues and the struggle to be a part of the Royal family.

Here, there is only one tense. There is no future. The past and the present are the same thing.

It is slow-paced, but it makes up for it with beautiful scenery, good cinematography and excellent music. And Kristen Stewart, while still getting a ton of hate for her performances in the Twilight saga a decade ago, proves once again that she’s a good actress, and I found her just right for the role.

The movie could have been a bit more complex, but maybe that’s the screenwriter’s fault (Steven Knight - Locke, Serenity, Dirty Pretty Things)

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It’s got colours, it’s got dragons, it’s got mythology. Really nicely done, the jokes are well placed and the pacing is just perfect.

The voices are done by great voice actors, like Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars), Gemma Chan (Humans), Awkwafina, Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), Dichen Lachman (Agents of SHIELD, Altered Carbon), Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Death at a Funeral), Sung Kang (Fast & Furios), and many others.

The music is also excellent, the story the same, and it’s not a mistake that it got nominated for best Animated Picture, because it has a strong chance of winning.

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Parallel Mothers is the story of two mothers, and the twisting connection that unites their lives. Penelope Cruz is excellent as always, the directing and storytelling of Pedro Almodóvar put her in a great light, making her worthy of the Oscar nomination she received.

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Licorice Pizza is a movie about finding and exploring love in 1970s California.

The music is great, the story the same, the acting is very good and the chemistry between characters is magnetic. I’ve watched like 40 minutes of the movie without feeling the time pass.

This movie also marks the cinematographic debut of Cooper Hoffman, son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. The resemblance is amazing and he has a bit of his father charm.

Also making her debut, Alana Haim of band HAIM has a very good performance, showing she’s got a lot of potential. Also her sisters’ cameo was cute, along with their parents.

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The Mitchells vs the Machines is a great animation from Disney. The Mitchells are having their normal family problems … until the machine apocalypse happens. It’s an extremely funny apocalyptic road-comedy, filled with a ton of funny moments.

From a technical standpoint it ticks all the typical Disney movie checboxes: good music, good voice acting, a ton of humour, a comic-relief pet, but best of all, a good written story, including the “sad” part before everything turns out fine.

Regarding the Oscar nomination? It’s a great movie, totally deserving the credit. The competition is fierce.

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A good movie about the life of televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, which created a media empire over the course of a few decades.

Based on a true story, the movie is well written, the music is great, and Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield gave awesome performances. Also a big shoutout to Vincent D’Onofrio’s acting as televangelist Jerry Falwell (this, Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in MCU, guess he always gets to play the mobster roles). The make-up, cinematography, music departments did their work flawlessly.

As a sidenote, I also saw Andrew Garfield in tick, tick … BOOM!, where he also gave a great performance, but this one tops them all.

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Another good movie by Pixar, as expected. It’s a nice story about life and friendship, but with a twist: Luca is a sea “monster”.

The characters are nicely written, the voices are acted very well, the animation is just as you’d expect from Pixar. The music used in the movie is well-suited and the pacing is just fine, not too fast, not too slow (which is weird, considering it’s a movie about Italians). The story is well told, sprinkled with a ton of jokes, and the runtime is short enough for it not to become annoying. Good adventure movie for kids between 1 and 111 years.

Definitely a strong contender for the Oscar for Best Animated Motion Picture in 2022.

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The movie starts with a display of force, alternating documentary-like interviews with reading room shots, with episode snippets. While it seems like it’s all over the place, it is very entertaining and catchy. You meet the most important characters right away, you get struck by some very well-positioned jokes (OMGJKSimmons!) and without blinking you realized you’ve seen 20 minutes of the movie without breathing. The story, the acting, the music, the jokes, the close-ups, the cinematography, everything is stellar. Nicole is brilliant, Javier is great, I feel insulted that this movie hasn’t got a nomination for Best Picture, because in my opinion, it’s above most of the others I’ve seen, and one of the best comedies of the last few years. Six popcorns.

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The black and white picture and the 4:3 format, make this movie feel old, classic, a piece of art, reminding me a lot of Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”. It also reminded me a bit of that episode from The Twilight Zone. From a technical point of view, the movie is a masterpiece, being almost entirely filmed inside.

Regarding the Oscar nominations, Denzel’s acting is stellar, the production design is absolutely brilliant, and the cinematography is great, all of these being strong contenders for the statue. However, I’m not a huge theater fan, so the movie didn’t click particularly for me, but I wasn’t disappointed in seeing it, as it’s pretty well-paced.

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