Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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Being after long time John Woo back, romantic war movie with gigantic Chinese Titanic story off the ground. The story is divided into two parts with The Crossing (2014) serving as the prologue for The Crossing 2 (2015). Totally 4hs 20mins. Most of the scene mind voices with flash back and repeated again and again makes irritating, otherwise total hours will be 3hrs.


The Crossing (2014) 5.2/10
2h 9min | Drama | 2 December 2014


The Crossing 2 (2015) 5/10
2h 11min | Drama | 30 July 2015 (China)

 

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Again another slasher movie with different concept of plots, beautiful young college student needing money for tuition moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. One of the “devoted” fans turns psycho after he hears the girls’ true thoughts and feelings about him and invades the house with deadly results.


Girl House (2014) 4.5/10
GirlHouse (original title)
1h 39min | Horror, Thriller | 14 February 2015

 

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The story of Son of Saul takes place inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II and covers a day or two in the life of a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner who, along with a selected few, is tasked with the disposal of the corpses of gas chamber victims.


Son of Saul (2015) 6/10
Saul fia (original title)
R | 1h 47min | Drama, Thriller, War | 18 December 2015

Won Oscar 2016,Best Foreign Language Film of the Year,Hungary

 

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Another time travel movie with college teens do useless things without ambitions.


Project Almanac (2015) 5.5/10
PG-13 | 1h 46min | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 30 January 2015

 

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Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, a hybrid project of Kipling's original source material and the 1967 animated film, is a delicate story but a magnificent world. Almost entirely computer-generated, it's a wondrous dreamscape of sensations and textures - 3D is essential here - which evoke all the mythical, primordial emotion.

The Jungle Book (2016) 7/10
PG | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 15 April 2016

 

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The Invisible Boy,Directed by Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), superhero movie for kids, also fame of "I’m Not Scared (2003)" and Nirvana (1997)..etc.,

A shy kid finds out he can turn invisible at will and quickly learns he must use the skill to fight a powerful organization.

The Invisible Boy (2014) 7/10
Il ragazzo invisibile (original title)
1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 18 December 2014

 

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The Fencer, a heartfelt movie that was filmed in Estonia about a real-life teacher who made an impact on the lives of children in a small post-war Estonian village.


The Fencer (2015) 7.5/10
Miekkailija (original title)
1h 33min | Drama, History, Sport | 13 March 2015

 

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The Witch, slow burn nature without scary and tense. It has a great use of its setting and its time period with a great score, visuals and costumes, it is also realistic and it has a great approach with more focus on dialogue and plot, but the film is unfortunately not explore main content of plot.

The Witch (2015) 4.5/10
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (original title)
R | 1h 32min | Horror, Mystery | 19 February 2016

 

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The film is adapted from the Laura Lippman novel of the same name, a 2003 crime novel.
EVERY SECRET THING is a missing-baby case haunts a small town in this indie mystery also gripping psychological thriller about the chilling consequences of the secrets we keep.


Every Secret Thing (2014) 6.5/10
R | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 20 April 2014

 

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When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.

Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006) 5/10
Bon Cop, Bad Cop (original title)
R | 1h 56min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 11 August 2006

 

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Emelie a new babysitter turns out to be seriously emotionally twisted psycho thriller.

Emelie (2015) 5.5/10
1h 20min | Horror, Thriller | 4 March 2016

 

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Things We Lost in the Fire is a solid character drama, real submission throughout the film in the way that it challenges the conventions of a family drama. a good performance from Halle Berry.

Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) 7/10
R | 1h 58min | Drama | 19 October 2007

 

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Visions is a movie about a couple who moves into the Valley in hopes to start of clean after a horrific accident and to start a wine yard. The woman start to see weird phenomenons and a hooded guy.

Visions (2015) 5/10
R | 1h 22min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 19 January 2016

 

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A violent encounter in the desert leads to a twisted cat-and-mouse game.


Mojave (2015) 5.5/10
R | 1h 33min | Thriller | 3 December 2015

 

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Amazing performance from Brendan Gleeson. Not so sure that everything else works exactly as effectively as it wants to, but the best moments more than make up for it.

Calvary (2014) 4/10
R | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama | 11 April 2014

 

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Based on a real life tragedy, this gruesome investigation. In the wake of a tragedy a detective searches for why. Brutal and beautiful with little bit confusion on slow plot.


Port of Call (2015) 5/10
2h 6min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 3 December 2015 (Hong Kong)

 

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Deadpool has it all, literally. There's action, blood, sex, and hella jokes. Like the jokes are constant and it all mostly works.

Deadpool (2016) 6/10
R | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 February 2016

 

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Another movie adaptation of a young-adult sci-fi novel. The strong female lead is what drives the story forward, which Chloë Grace Moretz dose a good job. But not fit this character. Now end lookalike sequels may come?

The 5th Wave (2016) 5.5/10
PG-13 | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 22 January 2016

 

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The based on true events, US Coast Guard effort to save the crew of the SS Pendleton, a tanker that was torn in half like a crusty baguette during a storm off Cape Cod in 1952. Its solid disaster film some really good actors (Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck) and has some pretty good effects, but it suffers from being a little too melodramatic and quite slow throughout.

The Finest Hours (2016) 7/10
PG-13 | 1h 57min | Action, Drama, History | 29 January 2016

 

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A pair of cops, a brutal gang of dealers and a murder witness who happens to be one of the cop's son. A stretching chase from start to finish with fast-paced action movies.

Mea culpa (2014) 7.5/10
R | 1h 30min | Action, Thriller | 5 February 2014 (France)