What’s New in Cinema and Streaming: Which Movies Are Worth Watching – And Which Are Not – Kultur

blue beetle

Anke Sternborg: Puerto Rico Angel Manuel Soto He has created a mixture of all that is good, inherent, and self-deprecating in superhero and monster cinema, from Spiderman, Ironman, and Guardians of the Galaxy to the Transformers movies. But the movie is always at its best when it cuts back on the computer effects a bit and focuses on heartwarming family moments. Xolo Maridueña, the charismatic leading man, has Mexican, Ecuadorian and Cuban roots. The “blue beetle” for the Latino community could be what the “black panther” is for African Americans: a giant step toward representation.

The last flight of Demeter

Anne Sternenberg: Until now, only cinema has shown how Dracula goes ashore from a ghost ship with rats. Now he wants a Norwegian director Andre Overdale And his screenwriters know exactly how it happened. Based on a log book chapter that Bram Stoker included in his comic book, they tell how the crew of Demeter It is being systematically destroyed. The movie is closer to the “Alien” style than the classic “Dracula” stories. The vampire isn’t a tragic figure, but a raging monster of horror whose victims don’t fear or grieve deeply, apart from the ship’s charismatic doctor (Corey Hawkins).

forever young

Kathleen Hildebrand: In the 1980s, the Théâtre des Amandiers, directed by legendary director Patrice Cherau in Nanterre, was a place of pilgrimage for European theater. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi She studied at the company’s acting school and dedicates a sexy, never nostalgic, homage to youth in general and her character in particular. Louis Garrel plays Chéreau with his shirt always wide open and smoking incessantly, like a blazing fire. With a lot of humor, the selfishness and hysteria of the characters does not bother them one thing, after all, this is about the actors.

Kandahar

Fritz Goetler: Look here, you have better internet now, Gerard Butler explains to the Iranian soldiers, pulls out his cellphone and shows them: Football! They look suspicious. That’s right, because Butler, who was working for the CIA, secretly planted a destructive Trojan horse in the system of an Iranian nuclear facility. On his way back to London, he allows himself to be persuaded to take quick private action in Afghanistan. But everything goes wrong and he has to flee with his interpreter via Kandahar. Gerard Butler is an accepted champion against cruises, on land, and Rick Roman Wu It performs surprisingly realistically through a crowd of actors with their own morals.

Canoney was!

Joseph Grobel: When a boy travels alone to Berlin by train and robs: Whoever thinks of Kästner’s “Emil and the Detectives” is not entirely wrong about the film adaptation of this children’s book based on Martin Muser. But it’s a story from today’s Brandenburg, where the boy faces a cheeky escape alongside the gangsters, dope police, nudists and trash icon Ades Zabel. Stephen Westerville He humorously told children about a road movie that adults would also enjoy.

Le Mali 70

Fritz Goetler: Every Monday, Berlin’s big band Omniversal Earkestra celebrates the champions of its vinyl collection and takes on the cool jazz from Mali. Prior to the 1968 military coup, there was a lively big band culture. Berliners go to Mali, look for yesterday’s musicians, and go to the smallest villages. In Bamako, they re-recorded their songs with the musicians, using their own voices, which made Cheick Tidiane Seck of the legendary band The Railways grumble: “He turned the beat, but he doesn’t want to admit it.” It is the age-old question: should the old be faithfully reproduced, or should the old be changed. A different read, but with a soul. Marcus Sm Schmidt He depicts this journey into jazz in muted images reminiscent of sepia shots. In Mali, jazz culture is currently being pushed back.

past life – in another life

Philip Bufferman: In one of the sweetest love movies of recent years, two lives flow into each other via video calls. They used to know each other from their native South Korea before she immigrated to the US, they were both kids at the time, and now he’s back on screen like a friendly ghost. Then, many years later, they stand opposite each other in a park in New York and have much more to say to each other than can be said in a lifetime. She is married now, this is her real life. But what does this mean? Celine Song The border also dissolves between American and Korean cinema. Left behind: hope, sadness, tenderness and happiness.

Tobia youth

Annette Shevell: The algorithm is always correct or? In the not too distant future, he will rule everything, including when youth is over and it’s time to grow up. The film, which jumps playfully back and forth between drama, situation comedy and Tiktok aesthetics, accompanies young Wanga. AI calculated her dream job and set up an apartment for her. But she soon misses aimlessly with her old, neon-sparkling life. Dennis Stormers The picture of a young generation caught between constant productivity and digitization is a bit clumsy, but it asks the right questions: about the limits of self-improvement, for example.