60/100
A balaclava-wearing terrorist steps out onto the balcony of the building where he and his cohorts are holed up with their hostages. As images go, the sight of a member of Palestinian militant group Black September is one of the most chilling and infamous ever seen. Coming in the midst of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the first Games ever to be broadcast live by satellite, it was an image that shocked the world.
Of course, the brutal terrorist attack…
54/100
Relatively enjoyable on its surface but the absence of any real subtext makes this by far the weakest film of the trilogy.
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83/100
If films are judged according to how often and how well they hit their apparent targets (and they should), then Dunkirk is near flawless. Nolan has explained that he wanted to portray the rescue mission of allied troops from France at the beginning of WWII not as a traditional war film but as a thriller, a tale of suspense and survival, and he has managed to do exactly that.
Even for a film which recounts a well known story,…
35/100
Oh dear, this is not very good is it? I haven’t read Ernest Cline’s 2011 hit book on which this is based but it is hard to imagine that it’s any less hackneyed than the film. The book is supposed to be a fan letter to ’80s pop culture, set in a world where icons from movies, games and TV become real. But the film, though at times technically pretty impressive (of course it is, come on its Spielberg), is…
