The Lost City (2022)

A recluse novelist is kidnapped by a collector for her archeology knowledge related to the fictional story she wrote.

'The Lost City' is an adventure comedy with a wonderful Sandra Bullock but a weak and unconvincing script. A bit of satisfying fun comes from Brad Pitt's minor role.

Director:  Aaron Nee, Adam Nee 

With: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt

Rating: 6/10

Babylon (2022)

The beginning of Hollywood, through the lens of a young man fascinated by cinema, an actress who wants to become a star and a fading star.

"Babylon" is an artistic, dramatic film, that can be difficult to describe. Full of fantasy, and fascination for the decadent period that led the film world in its silent beginnings, it shows freedom, limitless expression as well as the forgetting in easy life, various addictions and cheap admiration. With ideas similar to 'Singing in the Rain', the parallel between the two films is mentioned almost at every step. Fascinating, but also sad.

Director:  Damien Chazelle      

With: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde, Diego Calva, Flea, Eric Roberts, Li Jun Li, Max Minghella, Tobey Maguire, Samara Weaving

Rating: 8/10

Bullet Train (2022)

An unlucky assassin boards a train for a basic mission, but realizes that other assassins are around, having similar intentions.

'Bullet Train' is an action comedy with caricaturist elements, in a similar style to Kick-Ass or Smokin' Aces. Imperfect, but it still keeps the viewer's gaze glued to the screen, curiosity and fascination winning in front of such a rich palette of atypical characters, with unusual traits and the interesting interaction between them.

Director:  David Leitch      

With: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka

Rating: 8/10

By the Sea (2015)

A couple chooses to stay in a hotel in France so that he can write and they can recover their spark together.

'By The Sea' is a drama directed by the protagonist Angelina Jolie and has a very personal note considering the real and publicized drama of the marriage of the two. The film has depth and credibility and the comparison of the two couples: one with experience and a newly married couple has its place in a film that analyzes the degradation of relationships (maybe a little too much). It's not for everyone.

Director:  Angelina Jolie    

With: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud

Rating: 7/10

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

An actor and his stuntman close friend intersect with well-known events of 1969.

'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' is a drama with comic accents signed by Quentin Tarantino. It's a  difficult to describe film without revealing its element of surprise, precisely because it makes sense and works as intended because of it. However, in short, the film is Tarantino's ode dedicated to Hollywood or at least the idea of ​​Hollywood as seen through the eyes of an imaginative cinephile. The two main actors have an incredible chemistry and manage to maintain the viewer's attention and the comic credibility of the film every and each moment.

Director:  Quentin Tarantino   

With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch

Rating: 9/10

Ad Astra (2019)

Roy Mcbride is an astronaut who embarks on a complex and dangerous mission out of a desire to find out the truth about his father, who disappeared on a similar mission 30 years ago.

Ad Astra is a sci-fi drama that deals with common human themes such as ambition and one's feelings towards disappointing or absent parents. We see here the predisposition to wanting to know one's roots, as well as the undeclared desire, hidden under a mask of apathy, to find out that the guilty parents have some mitigating circumstances. Brad Pitt is very efficient and skilled as always in rendering a wide range of emotions with very little effort, helped by his cynical and bored monologue his character delivers as also the storyteller.

With little action and more of an invitation to reflection, Ad Astra is an entertaining film only for a few.

Director:  James Gray    

With: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland

Rating: 9/10

World War Z (2013)

Foarte suprinsa de alegerea lui Brad Pitt pentru un gen care nu il caracterizeaza, am ales acest film nestiind la ce sa ma astept. M-am delectat cu un film inteligent, plin de surprize dar si de clisee, fara ca mixul indoielnic sa lucreze in devafoarea ritmului alert, tensiunii optimiste, sau satisfactiei si curiozitatii pentru rezolvarea de puzzle-uri. Cu idei inovative si efecte impresionante, amatorii de filme inteligente dar si cei de blockbustere vor fi satisfacuti in aceeasi masura.

Regia: Marc Forster
Scenariu: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard , Damon Lindelof, Matthew Michael Carnahan, J. Michael Straczynski (scenariu), Max Brooks (roman)
Cu: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, David Morse, Peter Capaldi

Rating: 9/10

Spy Game (2001)

Cel mai subtil film al lui Tony Scott. Mai putine explozii si mai multe lovituri din umbra. Nu l-am mai vazut facand asa ceva si nici nu m-as fi asteptat sa-i iasa atat de bine. A adus in prim plan doua icon-uri adesea comparate ca stil, popularitate si charisma, fara a-i face sa intre intr-o competitie inutila. In prim plan il vedem pe un Robert Redford ca in zilele de glorie, furand scena oricui se incumeta sa o imparta cu el, intr-un rol de maestru, mentor, subtil si zgomotos in acelasi timp, care lasa foarte istet loc indoielilor si convingerilor contradictorii. Intr-un al doilea plan, totusi cu nimic mai prejos, i se da prilejul lui Brad Pitt sa faca iar dovada de talentul sau, de puterea de a nu fi starul, intr-un rol mult mai uman, vulnerabil si impulsiv.

Regie: Tony Scott
Scenariu: Michael Frost Beckner, David Arata
Cu: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

So dissapointed that I could cry...

Ma asteptam la controversa, la violenta gratuita but clever, la umor negru, sarcasm, personaje fascinante, memorabile, pe care le condamni si le admiri in ascuns, replici inteligente, dialog, foarte mult dialog, cu aparent calm si timeouturi impanzite cu acestea si multe multe. Nu zic ca au lipsit cu desavarsire dar nici nu au fost acolo. Prezenta lui Tarantino s-a facut simtita si recunoscuta doar in primul capitol, caruia nu am nimic sa-i reprosez, este curat si indiscutabil punctul culminant al artei sale in filmul acesta. Cate s-au scris despre filmul asta, cati au fost fascinati si l-au aclamat si ridicat in slavi. Chiar te face sa te intristezi. E o dovada a faptului ca foarte putini pot recunoaste si se pot bucura de genialitatea lui Tarantino. A devenit un standard, un tipar in care lumea il incadreaza pe el insusi, fara a mai sta sa judece incadrarea, care deja poate exista fara ajutorul creatorului, si fara efort in plus din partea acestuia. Orice film va scoate, are prestabilita o eticheta, si lumea abia daca va astepta sa-l vizioneze pentru a i-o atribui. Well, pentru a te putea bucura de creatii originale Tarantino, si pentru a-l putea impulsiona sa depuna efortul pentru a fi...el, atunci trebuie sa-ti calci pe inima si sa renunti la eticheta pregatita pentru a recunoaste cand acesta a cam dat gres. Nu e un film in intregime nereusit, are momentele sale, nelipsita ironie si umor, mai putin subtil aici, dar prezent, dar asta doar ma face sa ii pot recunoaste istetimea autorului, dar nu si genialitatea lui. Ah si de mentionat doua figuri care si-au facut simtita si de neuitat prezenta: Cristoph Waltz(Landa) si Melanie Laurent(Shosanna) plus Michael Fassbender (Hicox) care a ocupat prea putin timp pelicula.

Regia:Quentin Tarantino
Scenariul:Quentin Tarantino
Cu: Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender,Til Schweiger