Films

Amid emotional wreckage and frantic chases, this action thriller stands out by shifting the spotlight from external enemies to inner demons. Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg reignite a bond eroded by time and rekindled under explosive circumstances, with restrained intensity. The film stretches the genre by balancing adrenaline with intimacy, memory with choice — and draws its power precisely from the silences between one gunshot and the next.

With a storyline that turns absurdity into a chance to expose emotional vulnerabilities, “A Family Affair” uses romance as a lens to explore ego, boundaries, and personal growth. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, the film begins with an unusual premise — the entanglement between a pampered movie star and his former assistant’s mother — to examine how intimacy reshapes power dynamics.

In a future where beauty is mandatory and aesthetic conformity is law, teenagers anxiously await the surgery that will make them “perfect” — at the cost of their own identity and freedom of thought. “Uglies” turns the obsession with physical ideals into a tool of social control, exploring how the uniformity of bodies serves the domestication of minds. Tally’s conflict exposes the perversity behind a utopia disguised as progress.

With raw grief etched into her every move and apathy as her only compass, a woman walks to the edge of the end, convinced there’s nothing left to lose. But chance — or malice — intervenes in the form of a kind stranger, turning quiet despair into a calculated trap. Caught between the urge to vanish and the instinct to survive, she’s drawn into a brutal game of manipulation and resistance, where each choice brings her closer to a new form of damnation.

By following the quiet steps of young Mary before the birth of Jesus, “Mary” departs from established conventions and offers a narrative centered on the emotional maturation of a woman caught between divine expectations and human pressures. D.J. Caruso opts for a more intimate and grounded portrayal, exploring the weight of faith when confronted with fear, love, and collective misunderstanding — and the inner silence that precedes the sacred.

Based on a true story that defies logic and drifts between the supernatural and family trauma, “The Deliverance,” by Lee Daniels, pushes the boundaries between faith, delusion, and despair. The director reconstructs the experience of a woman besieged by invisible forces — both internal and external — and questions how far the resilience of someone hollowed out from within can go. With intense performances and a suffocating atmosphere, the film confronts viewers with what cannot be seen but refuses to leave.

When the grandmother unexpectedly comes into a fortune and announces a new marriage, the already unstable Italian family spirals into chaos. Desperate to protect the millionaire inheritance, they devise an increasingly disastrous series of plans to eliminate the suspicious fiancé, plunging into a chain of hilarious failures. In this absurd comedy, laughter springs from incompetence, greed, and family ties more twisted than tender.

In a marriage that should have unraveled with time, what endures is the appearance — and behind it, a carefully nurtured web of manipulation, silence, and distortion. In this layered drama tinged with suspense, Barbara Rothenborg turns marital stability into a minefield, where every gesture exposes deep fractures, and the truth, once it forces its way through, unravels what little remains of control, love, and sanity.

In this intimate and quiet drama, a family’s isolation in a desolate corner of the world turns what should be a home into a disguised prison. “The Sandle Castle” outlines the melancholic drift of a childhood set adrift, where everyday symbols take on existential weight. With visual lyricism, symbolic depth, and a narrative that avoids easy answers, Matty Brown unveils the emotional collapse in places where no promise holds or can be reclaimed.

Instead of giving in to spectacle, the film opts for restraint: it meticulously and sensitively reconstructs the quiet journey of three scientists who, working on the margins of institutions and under moral attack, challenged ethical and biological boundaries in the name of an uncertain future. The narrative avoids easy glorification and finds depth in the fragile, solitary, and stubborn nature of science — also revealing the personal cost of each hard-won breakthrough.