The adventures of Hercules Poirot play on the texture of perception, location and deduction while still creating both a sense of time and tension. While the last two films directed and starring Kenneth Branagh understood their task, the style applied to "A Haunting In Venice' (enhanced for IMAX) really uses the approach as an exercise but also a classical progression of how such a film is done.

There is a lot going on in "Everything Everywhere All At Once". And while some of it straddles the boundaries of storytelling and points of reference, it is a borderline brilliant film.

In "Shang-Chi & The Legend Of The Ten Rings", it is a pendulum swing back and forth melding the aspect of the Marvel Comics with both an Asian sensibility and a Western flair.

When "Gunpowder Milkshake" was first announcedin the trades, the aspect of this cast, and a female led action picture shot in Berlin just seemed like a fantastic idea. And for the most part, it is.