Page 88 - Metropolis Megazine No.120 International

MID-SEASON REVIEW

JORGE PINTO

The film critics of METROPOLIS many films, but Margarida
magazine present their readers Cardoso's «Banzo» and João Rosas'
with the films that marked the «The Luminous Life» stand out.
first half of the year. The holidays
are a wonderful time to catch up The six-month period was also
on films in a panorama where the marked by the blockbuster
most popular choices are becoming «Sinners», which went beyond the
increasingly difficult to find in label in the hands of Ryan Coogler.
The director, in addition to the
cinemas...
MOVIES TOP 2023 The first half of the year was an exemplary—and increasingly
great box office figures, made
unprecedented—deal with the
undoubtedly marked by the premiere
of «I'm Still Here», a surprise at the
studio. Coogler has guaranteed
box office and full of critical acclaim.
control of the final editing
of his work, immediate gross
The film appears on ten of my
colleagues' seventeen lists of mid-
first dollar of box office receipts,
season suggestions. It's one of the
front-runners for Film of the Year. participation in billing from the
and, above all, that the film rights
will be returned to him after 25
There were some pleasant ‘world years.
cinema’ surprises in the cinemas,
such as «Black Dog», «Afternoons of «Mission: Impossible - The Final
Solitude», «The Other Way Around» Reckoning» is a spectacle in cinema,
and «Vermiglio». Indie cinema but it didn't fly as high as expected;
emerged with «Sing Sing» and «Bird». it will definitely be a different film
And even in the mainstream we on a television screen. The first
find proposals with that flavour of half of the year was marked by the
difference due to their authors, such sparkling results of the lightweight
as Wes Anderson's «The Phoenician but enjoyable «Lilo and Stitch», the
Scheme», Brady Corbet's «The real image of «How to Train Your
Brutalist» and Celine Song's «The Dragon» and the dizzying speed of
Materialists». And we mustn't forget «F1» (the most profitable title in
that we had two Soderbergh films, the cinema on Apple Studios' CV).
the very interesting «The Presence»
(which was almost “absent” from Finally, animation with three
cinemas) and the success of «Black highlights from outside the domain
Bag», two works that are his of the major studios: the Oscar-
hallmark of quality and versatility. winning «Flow», «Robot Dreams»
and the Australian animation
Portuguese cinema premiered «Memoir of a Snail».

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