The Studio (2025) ***

A hilarious Apple series about a Hollywood studio. The best Tinseltown satire since "The Player" (1992).

Dying For Sex (2025) *

Very uneven, but occasionally daring TV mini-series about a woman diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, who abandons her husband and begins to fully explore her sexuality.

The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) ***

Season 3 of Mike White's excellent series for HBO, this time set in Thailand.

Adolescence (2025) ***

Brilliantly directed British TV series about a strange murder.

Dexter: Resurrection (2025) ***

Dexter moves to New York looking for his son.

MobLand (2025) ***

Superior British crime drama series, with a stellar cast, great story and flawless pacing. The first two episodes were directed by Guy Ritchie.

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025) ***

Bill Burr offers hilarious, outrageous, brutal and unexpected takes on everything from Gaza to Ku Klux Klan to Black Lives Matter.

Les Derniers remparts (2025) ***

Impressive VR experience about a siege of a medieval town in southern France.

1923: Season 2 (2025) ***

Connection (2025) ***

Directed by Casey Calvert. Nominated for Outstanding Directing at the 2025 AVN Awards.

The Pitt: Season 1 (2025) ***

Exciting medical drama television series in 15 episodes set in real-time on a single 15-hour work shift at a Pittsburgh hospital trauma center.

Landman: Season 2 (2025) ***

The second season of an excellent TV series from Taylor Sheridan, set in West Texas.

Hacks: Season 4 (2025) ***

The fourth season of the popular HBO series.

Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy (2025) ***

Directed by Scott Zabielski. 

Pluribus (2025) ***

Only thirteen people in the world are immune to the effects of an extraterrestrial virus that had transformed the world's human population into a peaceful and content hive mind.

Severance: Season 2 (2025) ***

Aka Charlie Sheen (2025) ***

A Netflix documentary series in two parts. A fascinating look at the quintessential Hollywood "bad boy".

The Last Of Us: Season 2 (2025) ***

The dynamic of the series shifts dramatically with the arrival of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) who literally eliminates the competition in one of the most shocking twists ever.

Asura (2025) **

Japanese Netflix series directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Shoplifters", "Monster"). It's a story of four sisters who discover that their father has an affair with a younger woman.

Diane Warren: Relentless (2025) **

Conventional documentary about a great songwriter. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song for the 17th time, Diane Warren /failed once again to win the elusive statuette / finally won the statue she desired so much/.

The Phoenician Scheme (2025) **

A disappointing film from Wes Anderson. It certainly has his signature style with symmetrical compositions, absurd humour, vibrant colours and whimsical dialogue. But it lacks the genius of his greatest works.

Wicked For Good (2025) **

Quite disappointing. Musical numbers:

"Every Day More Wicked"  *

"Thank Goodness / I Couldn't Be Happier"  *

"No Place Like Home"  *

"The Wicked Witch Of The East"  * 

"Wonderful"  *

"As Long As You're Mine"  *

"No Good Deed"  *

"March Of The Witch Hunters"  * 

"The Girl In The Bubble"  *

"For Good"  * 

"Finale"  * 

Come See Me In The Good Light (2025) **

Oscar-nominated documentary about Andrea Gibson. Surprisingly upbeat, considering it's about facing an incurable diagnosis of ovarian cancer.

F1 (2025) **

Will Brad Pitt win the race ? The suspense is as predictable as the ending.

Heart Eyes (2025) **

Very effective slasher pic with convincing performances, clever touches of humour and plenty of thrills and suspense. But it's also quite predictable.

Hedda (2025) *

A disappointing adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen. Its potential has been totally wasted on modernizing it.

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025) *

Hopelessly boring action flick starring Tom Cruise.

Zootopia 2 (2025) *

A very disappointing sequel to the 2016 Disney hit.

Mickey 17 (2025) *

Atrocious science-fiction flick set in a human colony on a distant planet. It's hard to believe that Ho Bong-Joon, who made such a great masterpiece as "Parasite" (2019), could stumble so badly with his very next project.

If I Had Legs I'D Kick You (2025) *

Rose Byrne plays a mother way beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown who faces one calamity after another in this nerve-wrecking drama that offers nothing but frustration to its viewers.

Eddington (2025) *

How do you make a movie like "Eddington"? You think of a movie like "One Battle After Another" and you take away reason and accountability...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) *

Tedious biopic about Bruce Springsteen's early years.

Elio (2025) *

A routine science-fiction adventure film with very familiar plot twists and boring characters.

28 Years Later (2025) *

A totally unremarkable zombie pic. Far less compelling than the weakest episodes of "The Walking Dead".

Top 10 Films of 2024

1. "Anora" (Sean Baker, USA)

2. "Kind Of Kindness" (Yorgos Lanthimos, Searchlight)

3. "The Seed Of The Sacred Fig" (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)

4. "The Brutalist" (Brady Corbet, A24)

5. "Flow" (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)

6. "My Old Ass" (Megan Park, Canada)

7. "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold, Searchlight)

8. "Conclave" (Edward Berger, Focus)

9. "Universal Language" (Matthew Rankin, Canada)

10. "Emilia Perez" (Jacques Audiard, France)

Other great films:

Ababouiné (Canada)

L'Amour ouf (France)

The Apprentice

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Better Man (UK)

Borgo (France)

Challengers

Civil War

Come Closer (Israel)

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (France)

Dahomey (Senegal)

Deadpool And Wolverine

Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles (Canada)

Elton John: Never Too Late

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Australia)

Heretic

Hit Man

Joker: Folie à deux

Kalak (Denmark)

The Last Showgirl

The Master And Margarita (Russia)

Memoir Of A Snail (Australia)

Misericorde (France)

Monsieur Aznavour (France)

Nightbitch

Nos belles-soeurs (Canada)

Paying For It (Canada)

La Plus precieuse des marchandises (France)

Porcelain War (Ukraine)

Queer

Rabia (France)

Les Rayons gamma (Canada)

Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Cambodia)

Le Roman de Jim (France)

The Room Next Door (Spain)

Saturday Night

September 5

Seven Veils (Canada)

Soundtrack To A Coup d'état

Vermiglio (Italy)

Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (UK)

We Live In Time (UK)

Wicked

Young Werther (Canada)

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2024:

1. "The Substance" (Coralie Fargeat, USA)

2. "Babygirl" (Halina Reijn, A24)

3. "Lee" (Ellen Kuras, USA)

4. "Nosferatu" (Robert Eggers, Focus)

5. "A Different Man" (Aaron Schimberg, A24)

6. "Eight Postcards From Utopia" (Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)

7. "Drive-Away Dolls" (Ethan Coen, Focus)

8. "Birth" (Bree Mills, USA)

9. "Swimming Home" (Justin Anderson, UK)

10. "Succubus" (Serik Beyseu, Russia)

Top 3 Shorts:

1. "Incident" (Bill Morrison, USA)

2. "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" (Nebojsa Slijepcevic, Croatia)

3. "A Lien" (David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, USA)

Other great shorts:

Instruments Of A Beating Heart (Japan)

The Only Girl In The Orchestra

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Espresso" (Dave Meyers, Sabrina Carpenter)

2. "Taste" (Dave Meyers, Sabrina Carpenter)

3. "Please Please Please" (Bardia Zeinali, Sabrina Carpenter)

Other great music videos:

Diet Pepsi

Top Commercial:

"Bleu de Chanel" (Martin Scorsese, Chanel)

Other great commercials:

Like A Good Neighbaaa

TV Top 10:

1. "Sugar" (Fernando Meirelles, Apple)

2. "Landman: Season 1" (Taylor Sheridan, Paramount)

3. "Shogun" (FX)

4. "Rivals" (Disney, UK)

5. "The Perfect Couple" (Susanne Bier, Netflix)

6. "Hacks: Season 3" (HBO)

7. "My Brilliant Friend: Season 4" (RAI, Italy)

8. "Cien años de soledad" (Netflix, Colombia)

9. "Fallout" (Amazon)

10. "Disclaimer" (Alfonso Cuaron, Apple)

Other great TV shows:

Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas

Baby Reindeer (UK)

Dating Naked UK (UK)

Evil: Season 4

Niepewnosc (Poland)

Squid Game: Season 2 (South Korea)

Top 3 Cartoons:

1. "Sing: Thriller" (Garth Jennings, Netflix)

2. "The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" (David Silverman, Disney)

3. "An Almost Christmas Story" (David Lowery, Disney)

Other great cartoons:

Beurk (France)

Magic Candies (Japan)

Papillon (France)

Wander To Wonder (UK)

Top VR film:

"Un Soir avec les Impressionnistes Paris 1874" (Pierre Gable, France)

Other great VR films:

A Simple Silence (Taiwan)

Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:

"Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer" (Jimmy Carr, Brian Klein, Netflix)

Other great stand-up comedy shows:

Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval

Weak films of 2024:

1995 (Canada)

Adam change lentement (Canada)

Alien: Romulus

All We Imagine As Light (India)

Argylle

Bergers (Canada)

La Bête (France)

Black Box Diaries (Japan)

Diamant brut (France)

Dune: Part Two

Else (Belgium)

En fanfare (France)

La Fonte des glaces (Canada)

The Girl With The Needle (Denmark)

Gladiator II

Grand Tour (Portugal)

Una Historia de amor y guerra (Mexico)

Humane (Canada)

I'M Still Here (Brazil)

Inside Out 2

Jour de chasse (Canada)

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

Maria

Moana 2

Nickel Boys

No Other Land (Palestine)

L'Ouragan F.Y.T. (Canada)

The Outrun (UK)

Un P'tit truc en plus (France)

A Real Pain

Sing Sing

The Six Triple Eight

Le Successeur (France)

Sugarcane (Canada)

Twisters

Vingt Dieux (France)

The Wild Robot

Weak shorts:

Anuja

Closing Time

I Am Ready Warden

I’M Not A Robot (Belgium)

The Spider

Weak TV shows:

Agatha All Along

Bridgerton: Season 3

Weak cartoons:

Beautiful Men (Belgium)

In The Shadow Of The Cypress (Iran)