There were three big movies screened to critics this week. Liam Neeson takes on the lead role (as the son of Leslie Nielsen's iconic character) for the reboot/sequel
The Naked Gun, which is flat-out hilarious. And as wonderfully stupid as we hoped it would be. Pedro Pascal leads the action reboot
The Fantastic Four: First Steps, alongside Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bacharach. Groovy visual stylings and superbly character-rooted comedy make it thoroughly engaging. And Sam Rockwell is back for the animated sequel
The Bad Guys 2, which is just as funny and action-packed as the first movie. With some terrific new characters and bigger set-pieces.
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Further afield, Fiona Shaw and Katherine Waterston are as good as expected in the mother-daughter drama
Park Avenue, which is involving but elusive. Even more the evasive,
Gazer is a stylised mystery thriller that intrigues but never quite pays off. Slovenian drama
Little Trouble Girls is also somewhat slippery in its coming-of-age story about a teen choirgirl.
Much more gripping is Love, the second chapter in the Oslo Stories Trilogy, which features fascinating characters on offbeat journeys. I also loved watching the 100-year restoration of Eisenstein's silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin, with a new score by the Pet Shop Boys. I'd never seen it on a big screen, and it looks and sounds gorgeous. It also feels thoroughly modern. Finally, I attended a special 3D premiere of the new trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash, which looks properly epic. The film itself comes out in December.
This coming week I'll be watching the horror thriller
Bring Her Back, British road movie
The Ceremony, Dutch coming-of-age drama
Young Hearts, the final chapter of the Oslo Stories Trilogy,
Sex, and the Ukrainian documentary
2000 Meters to Andriivka. I'll also attend the premiere of the second season of the Netflix show
Wednesday.
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