Promoted reviews

I Spit on Your Grave
Reviewed by Hexenkult
There are many arguments for and against this '70s cinema shocker. Most claim that it's just misogynistic trash (and rightly so, though I'm not condemning it - many '70s exploitation films are just that); and still others claim it's some so... More

Gears of War
Reviewed by VierasTalo
Kunnollisten toimintapelien teko on vaikeaa suuremmalla mittakaavalla, sillä ihmiset eivät jaksa jauhaa samaa asiaa jatkuvasti. Jos toimintapelissä on tietty kaava, joka toistuu taistelusta toiseen, ei sitä yleensä kovin pitkään pyst... More

The Hurt Locker
Reviewed by Lexi
''The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.'' Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a ... More

The International
Reviewed by VierasTalo
The International is one bleak film. Tom Tykwer is an exceptional director, and this film proves it. The movie's greatest benefactor is it's script and Tykwer himself. First off, the script provides us with two interesting things; the main ... More

Shutter Island
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"Don't you get it? You're a rat in a maze." It's a curious decision on the part of Martin Scorsese to follow the success of his Oscar-winning crime saga The Departed with Shutter Island; a psychological thriller that would seem beneath t... More

The Wolfman
Reviewed by Lexi
''Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.'' Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed b... More

Let the Right One In
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
Oskar: "Are you really twelve?" Eli: "Yes. It's just I've been twelve for a very long time." An assuringly unique and refreshing vampire story from Sweden, Let the Right One In is a motion picture of extraordinary mood and imaginative d... More

The Left Hand of Darkness
Reviewed by Abhi
From the summary of the book: "On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male of female during each mating cycle, and that is something other cultures find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent ... More

Hollywoodland
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"I can see the pieces. How they should fit. How I want them to fit." The final moments in the life of actor George Reeves (renowned for playing Superman/Clark Kent in the '50s TV show The Adventures of Superman) remains one of the most e... More

Gone Baby Gone
Reviewed by Lexi
''I couldn't stop running it over and over and over in my mind. The vague and distant suspicion that we never understood what happened that night; what our role was. Or maybe it was just like the hundreds of other children who disappear eac... More

Let the Right One In
Reviewed by VierasTalo
I don't think this is one of those movies that will be hauled as classics in the coming years, but it's still a thoroughly entertaining and striking display of northern filmmaking at it's best. Often melancholic and almost completely silent... More

The New World
Reviewed by Lexi
''They are gentle, loving, faithful, lacking in all guile and trickery. The words denoting lying, deceit, greed, envy, slander, and forgiveness have never been heard. They have no jealousy, no sense of possession. Real, what I thought a dre... More

The Haunting in Connecticut
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"Maybe this place is haunted..." Similar to The Amityville Horror, 2009's The Haunting in Connecticut is a supernatural horror film which employs the "based on a true story" crutch as a hook to entice movie-goers. Of course, the claim th... More

The Fountain
Reviewed by Lexi
''Together we will live forever.'' Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world. Hugh Jackman: Tomas / Tommy / To... More

Far Cry
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
"You are one resistant son of a bitch." Uwe Boll (which is German for "Appalling Filmmaker") has made a living over recent years (and has angered a great deal of people) by transforming beloved video game properties into epically awful m... More

Thirst
Reviewed by Lexi
''Like a leper rotting in flesh let all avoid me. Like a cripple without limbs let me not move freely. Remove my cheeks, that tears may not move down them. Crush my lips and tongue, that I may not sin with them. Pull out my nails, that ... More

The Proposal
Reviewed by PvtCaboose91
Margaret: "Would you please, with cherries on top, marry me?" Andrew: "Okay. I don't appreciate the sarcasm, but I'll do it. See you at the airport tomorrow." Tackling any film genre can be tough, but romantic comedies pose a unique cha... More

Eichmann (2007)
Reviewed by Lexi
''To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.'' Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the archi... More