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A gripping account of a wrongly convicted man and his life in a penal colony in French Guiana. Well acted, both Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek give some of the best performances of their careers. Beautiful music, beautiful visuals. I haven't seen the original, but I'll definitely give it a try eventually.

A brilliant premise made into a whirlwind of action combined with funny gags, but also a touching story about parents and children. The Lightbringer saga has a wonderful visual style and a functional world that, at least initially, follows the kill or be killed rules. The animals comment quite eternally and cynically on the deaths of their comrades and take the robot for a monster. The themes of caring for an orphaned caterpillar, surrogate parenting, rewriting code, getting to know the denizens of the forest, the role of outsiders in society all run like clockwork. Maybe the multiple ending could have been handled better, but the positive feelings prevail. First movie with my daughter in the theater and she was thrilled... she just wants to be a robot now.

The aftertaste of Carmy's explosion overshadows the joy of The Bear finally open. All that remains is the routine, the cooking failures, the pursuit of perfection that never ends. Some episodes are a study in matching image, music and editing. Perfect diction even without a story without dialogue. The strongest episode is about a lady in late middle age who gets laid off and has to look for a job and there's no place for her anywhere. Jon Bernthal steals the best scene of the third season when he tries to figure out why the lady is crying. The ending is sombre, yet solemn as funerals tend to be. Leaves the question hanging in the air.