Where part two merely faltered, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World crashes and burns.
When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only night fury, he must seek the Hidden World, a secret dragon Utopia, before a sinister dragon-slayer does.
Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Nightmarish visions and an unshakeable paranoia have her questioning what she wants, and an ancient evil spirit may be the cause.
referential re-enactments of everything from Harold Lloyd to Fritz Lang will massage the ego of the informed but like most modern remakes, these scenes lack the heart and soul of their inspirations, and aren't imaginative or exciting enough out of context
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
A polished, handsomely produced piece of work delivered with real confidence.
During an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
As with most everything in the A24 stable it looks amazing, but at root it is just people in rooms, talking. Sometimes talking about their dreams, which is to undersell it.
Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night.
Although the acting here is uniformly good, both Schreiber and Tomei struggle to bring much life to characters whose encounters with struggle come so late in life that they seem singularly unengaged with the world.
The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Six's meta-sequel seems calibrated to make those torture porn devotees let Sadly, neither Six's ideas or execution are enough to make the climactic orgy of suffering anything other than boring and unbelievable.
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Though not one of Lang's best works, ultimately sticking a little too close to the standard outline of thrillers of the period, this is nevertheless a satisfying experience for genre fans.
Blackmailed by her violent husband, a woman tries to persuade her lover to murder him.
Neatly put together, accessible and smart, Human Nature spends only a small portion of its running time mired in the usual debates, getting beyond them to explore much more interesting areas.
What’s remarkable is that director Mike Cheslik manages to sustain this for so long.
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
The past intrudes on the present in flashback, and though the moves between the periods are worked smoothly enough, the film feels torn between showing one perspective and the other while struggling to marry the two.
A son grapples with his feelings of hurt about an episode from the past as his mother succumbs to dementia.
Unlike other movies, where the music and the dancing usually serve as a sort of ill.ustrative, colourful background, here they dictate the rhythmic backbone of the film
András and Péter are two young men trying to make it big with their rock band in Budapest in the early 1980s. When the opportunity arises to attend the wedding of András’s cousin in Transylvania, they decide to take it as a chance to raise some money. Once there, they embark on an unexpected adventure.
Through archival material and present-day interviews, Kroot traces how the Sisters became a crucial presence in San Francisco, particularly during the AIDS epidemic, when joy, care, protest, and mutual aid were matters of survival rather than branding.
The story of the wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco known as Hunky Jesus.
There's the meat of a strong story here, and a good performance by Sullivan to hang it on, but Linden rarely manages to generate the tension that he needs.
A family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers, but their tranquility is threatened when they think they are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf.
Condensed and symbolic in its approach, sometimes to the point where it becomes surreal, Hunting Daze uses a small story to address big subjects.
A young, tempestuous woman, is taken in by a group of hunters in a remote cabin. In the midst of this tough, yet endearing, male microsociety, she feels like she finally belongs. A mysterious stranger’s arrival disrupts her newfound haven.
Concise, engaging and unpretentious, this is a great example of its kind.
A group of male hunters regularly lures women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only for them to discover that they are the hunted. Then they mess with the wrong women.
Taika Waititi knows growing up isn't child's play but he also respects childhood as a place of adventure, where spontaneity rules and the possibilities are only limited by imagination.
A kid and his foster uncle run off into the New Zealand bush.
The action scenes do a good job of playing out the options offered by the location. The story, on the other hand, feels tacked-on and underdeveloped.
A desperate young mother who has just filed divorce papers on her abusive husband is forced to take a job as the night shift janitor at a large furniture factory. She is told that she will be the only one working at this time, but after seeing a strange vehicle idling in the parking lot and finding a door to the factory ajar, she gets the feeling she might not be alone after all.
Important those these themes are, they're presented in a manner so wildly over the top that in places it verges on comedy.
Life becomes complicated when a woman tries to help her friend, a single mother, without realising that the friend had an affair with her husband before they were married.
A taut thriller, rooted more in atmosphere, character and nail-gnawing suspense than the sort of sadistic gory excess that has otherwise typified this decade's horror.
Cat and mouse thriller sees a young couple fall foul of a trucker on the motorway.
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