Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - Average fantasy flick for die-hard fans of the Harry Potter universe - 6/10 (08/01/20)

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is for die-hard fans of the Harry Potter universe only. The movie has a lack of interesting characters, plodding length and weak plot that make it hard to sit through. Especially the first hour is a lengthy tale...

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Glass (2019) - Like a chocolate pudding turning out to be dog feces - 7/10 (21/02/19)

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Glass starts like an intriguing supernatural thriller with bleak atmosphere as three men with mysterious powers encounter at a mental institution. The movie is a contiunuation of Unbreakable and Split, hence completing a trilogy that had started quite...

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Aquaman (2018) - Predictable fun - 7/10 (10/01/19)

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Aquaman is another exchangeable superhero movie but it's so dynamic and visually stunning that you won't care about the insultingly predictable plot and the repetitive superhero tropes. The movie has a short and appropriate introduction before the epic...

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) - Imaginative fantasy movie with mild horror elements - 8/10 (12/12/18)

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls is one of the most imaginative fantasy movies I have watched in a very long time. The colourful settings, the quirky characters and the spooky story make for a quite entertaining ride. Children might find some scenes...

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Paddington 2 (2017) - Traveling back to the ambition, curiosity and innocence of your childhood - 10/10 (02/02/18)

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The first live action and CGI-animated Paddington movie was a triumphant return for the greatest children's book franchise in the world. This second movie even outclasses it and might be the best animated movie ever made. The movie tells the story of...

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Paddington (2014) - Bears are the better human beings - 8/10 (01/02/18)

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Usually, I'm not a very nostalgic person and I'm certainly not a person who watches Dinsey films as an adult. However, Michael Bond's Paddington has always fascinated me since my early childhood. The idea of an innoent bear from darkest Peru integrating...

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The Shape of Water (2017) - A fairy tale for adults - 8/10 (31/01/18)

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Here comes the only minor spoiler of my review: Octavia Spencer doesn't talk about chicken in this movie. This is great. Now, let's move on. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a modern fairy tale that takes place during the sixties. It tells the...

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The Dark Tower (2017) - One of the best literary adaptations in recent memory - 9/10 (23/08/17)

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I'm not familiar with The Dark Tower novel series and I didn't expect much going into this movie with a few friends. To my surprise, The Dark Tower turned out being one of the best movies of the year so far. It's never easy to transform one or several...

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Chasse-Galerie: La légende (2016) - A charming piece of French-Canadian culture - 8/10 (01/07/16)

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''Chasse-Galerie: La légende'' is a French-Canadian movie about one of the nation's most popular folk tales about a group of voyageurs working at a remote timber camp who make a deal with the devil to visit their sweethearts back home on New Year's Eve...

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Hansel & Gretel - Witch Hunters (2013) - For fans of "Snow White And The Huntsman", "The Hunger Games" and "Twilight" - 7/10 (02/03/13)

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I've recently watched the Korean "Hansel and Gretel" movie which was an incredibly imaginative tale with a haunting atmosphere and stunning kid actors. This Hollywood version rather heads for a public that recently enjoyed movies such as "The Hunger Games",...

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