What to see this week? Here are our reviews of the latest films released in theaters or on a platform.
Bob Marley: One Love : Hallowed be his name…
“Built around actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, Bob Marley: One Love constitutes an operation of beatification in the pure tradition of authorized biographies. The musical sequences lift this sometimes enlightening film, which often remains on the surface of things,” writes our journalist Alexandre Vigneault.
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Me captain : A necessary work
“Matteo Garrone, who is also a co-writer, was inspired by his meeting with a teenager in a refugee camp in Italy to tell this story from the point of view of those who risk their lives at sea and in the desert,” writes our columnist Marc Cassivi.
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Perfect Days : Oh ! the good days
“Selected at the last Cannes Film Festival, in the running for an Oscar in the best international film category, Perfect Days was filmed in Tokyo. It marks the return to Japan of this globe-trotting filmmaker who directed the documentary Tokyo-Ga in 1985. With few dialogues and great wisdom in the choice of images and shots, Wenders signs here a minimalist and moving work of fiction,” writes our journalist Luc Boulanger.
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The promised land : A fascinating page of history
“The closed doors with enveloping shadows and nocturnal scenes bathed in unreassuring light are followed by grandiose sequences during which aerial camera movements reveal the inhospitable nature of Jutland in all its splendor, thus making The promised land an ode to the courage of Kahlen and to the colonists who believed in him,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.
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Madame Web : Artificial intelligence would have done better
“In the comics, Madame Web is an obscure character, allied with Spider-Man. She is old, blind and paralyzed. Without saying that there is no material to write a decent screenplay, no fan of comics did not want to see the adventures of the super medium transposed to the big screen. Despite everything, Sony Pictures commissioned five people – including the director – to adapt her story into a boring feature film,” writes our journalist Pascal Leblanc.
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