Filmrecensies van Don Shanahan

Exhibiting Forgiveness is as emphatic and resonating of a father-son conflict as any other in recent memory. For many, it will stick with you and hit home like a sledgehammer. More than everything, all of this hurt is worth every reflective second of the artistically melded experience. Recensie

Thanks to the nonlinear flow, none of it transpires in a simple fashion, and, goodness gracious, tissues are an absolute must for this crusher. Recensie

What pushes back against those typical pitfall tropes is the spine of youthful righteousness crafted by the Luce creative team of director J.C. Lee and co-writer Julius Onah. This is their second outstanding and frighteningly intense teen-scene banger in a row. Recensie

The answer to how to make an appealing biopic about an unsavory character is to have a hell of an actor or actress embody them. After that, The Apprentice strives strongly in its quest to expose and air out a few dirty laundry chapters of Donald Trump’s past. Recensie

If audiences take this raucous ride and seek out more behind-the-scenes facts to dispel the embellishment, part of the mission of Saturday Night is accomplished. Recensie

Lee is at its most impactful during Miller and Scherman’s suspenseful journeys during the World War II portions of the overall narrative. When the film is away or leaves those harrowing memories and settings, it looses a little bit of the grit and edge. Recensie

When it’s all said and done, you’ll be blotting tissues against the corners of your eyes and have a new contender for the best animated film of 2024. Recensie

Beyond any John Williams musical backing, action figures, magazine covers, and wall posters, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story reinforces that the coda of Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve’s stories deserves to be their tireless charitable efforts. Recensie

These exposed fractures in His Three Daughters are fascinating in their complication and frankness beyond the typical grief management narratives. No one ever said catharsis was easy to acquire, and that is the case here. Recensie

So often, a furrowed forehead flex from Clooney meets a nonplused raised eyebrow of Pitt, and we cannot help but smirk at the sight. By the time their banter increases and finishes each other’s sentences, we’re hooked by the beguiling bait. Recensie

Sit back and marvel at the unabashed fun and delirious delights he conducts. Recensie

Leave to a little indie movie like this to demonstrate sports sensibilities with a heart taller than any MLB stadium or a studio film ten times its budget, where a hug is a bigger victory than any home run. Recensie

Danny Kurtzman and Stanger wrote a soulful sojourn that keeps matters dramatic yet approachable. Recensie

The end result of War Game is a fascinating experience that jarringly resusitates the palpable unease felt back in 2021. Recensie

The exchanges of edgy profanity may count as some of the best entertainment present, but at some point we’re saying that phrase too right back at the movie itself. Recensie

The gravity of Peak Season is strong enough in its genuineness and quaintness to still find the right Bridges of Madison County-esque climactic quandary. Recensie

In presenting these heavenly heights of brotherhood and commitment with the truest possible representatives, Sing Sing is instantly one of the best prison films in movie history. Recensie

Deadpool & Wolverine operates with a reckless abandon that, through all the bottomless irreverent humor and pizazz on screen, smears its blood and guts from a surprising and corrective place of love. Recensie

Before Dawn wants to be Australia’s answer to Sam Mendes’s 1917, but the suspense and emotionality are decidedly lower. Still, the film represents its origins honorably and with deeply commendable intent. That will also count positively. Recensie

Taken together, the swagger and bluster of Twisters returns us back to that sense of stamina and vigor for enduring all things windy. The exhilaration is there if you can take it. Recensie

Both KiKi Layne and Thomas Doherty have shown their charismatic appeal in several features and different genres before Dandelion, making their magnetic pull together here easy on the eyes. Recensie

With that domesticated and relatable-beyond-borders quality, Cottontail is creating a greater journey, one venturing beyond any map charting the route to Akiko’s destined lakeside. Recensie

When knowingly not trying to be serious up front, a caricature of a character like Rex can get away with much more, and that looseness becomes much more palatable and, frankly, more entertaining. Instead, you’ve got a reductive movie striving for inspiration it can’t and shouldn’t earn. Recensie

The narrative and its musical score deftly hop back and forth over a line between pain and happiness with its revealed secrets and choice of tones. Recensie