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Redux I 3/5: It's clear that it is conceived more as an opportunity to jump on the already running train for new viewers and so it’s not really big deal. Rather, through the annoying monologues of Fox and Dana, the previous years are recapitulated. Redux II 4/5: Conspiracy through emotions. Once it's conspired only in the background and by the way, it's always better, especially when the main focus is on the characters, and all without exception face difficult decisions. Unusual Suspects 3/5: The hundredth episode overseas is considered a jubilee, so it's usually seen as a celebration for the fans. And X Files are no exception, so we'll find out what the Mulder's first meeting with Lone Gunmen in the 1980s really was (not). It was Interesting and... And nothing more. Detour 3/5: X-th Variation of X Files on Darkness Falls. Without eyes, it would have been better. What especially attracts your attention is the duo of other agents. The Post-Modern Prometheus 5/5: When Cher starts singing... This is how the one of the most cult episodes starts. Not only is it an excellent black-and-white tribute to black-and-white universal monsters horror movies, but above all, it's well written. It works both like an imitation and very touching movie. And throughout the whole running time it's winking at the viewer. What´s not to love? Christmas Carol 4/5: One woman show Gillian in a variation on Dickens's Christmas carol in one of the most distinctive mythological episodes. Emily 4/5: I really appreciate the effort for completely different and much more personal episodes full of conspiracy. It's a pity that Emily didn't appear in more episodes, because this way the ending would have been even more depressing. Kitsunegari 4/5: Horst Fuchs (who looks exactly like Christopher Nolan) Strikes Back, in other words the hunt for Fox. An excellent episode, but it's still only a fragmented original Modell's uncompromising aura. But blue is good. Schizogens 4/5: A generally despised episode about "fathers and trees that were strangely restless" that evening. It has such a specific atmosphere that you will either really like it you will feel the complete opposite. As for me, I really enjoyed this horror movie. Chinga 3/5: This movie is co-authored by Stephen King. That (along with the final scene from the office) is probably the only good part about this Chucky routine. But it is also instructive. You can Google what the title of the episode actually means in slang Spanish if you are interested.

Herrenvolk 4/5: Decent mythological episode, but as an introduction to the season it's simply not good enough. Home 5/5: It’s wonderful, wonderful. Oh, so wonderful... Teliko 4/5: It is surprising that African legends are not used more often in horror movies. There is clearly a huge potential in this department. Unruhe 4/5: Disturbing and not only because of Vince's eyes. The Field Where I Died 3/5: Great idea that is poorly presented. Sanguinarium 4/5: Kind of normal magic-plastic gore surgery. Musings Of A Cigarette-Smoking Man 3/5: Stories from the life of the shadow Forrest Gump in American history, including a bench and a box of chocolates. Tunguska 4/5: A prologue that is making us want to watch it as few others. Cliffhanger is one of the most creepy moments of the series and everything in between is so-so mythology. Terma 3/5: Unbalanced. An unprecedented number of great scenes on one side, an unprecedented number of awkward ones on the other. Paper Hearts 5/5: Picnic on Hanging Rock performed by X Files. El Mundo Gira 3/5: Mexican soap opera with Maria, that Carlos Santana would be happy about. And he would certainly appreciate those mushrooms. Leonard Betts 4/5: Ebert's thumb up! No doubt about that! Never Again 4/5: Scully finally has a fling and Jodie Foster is envious of it. Memento Mori 4/5: The cut-out family scene is the best part about it, but it still excellent. If put less Mulder's hunt and add more Scully's intimate moments, then it would have been simply perfect. Kaddish 3/5: A mediocre movie, of which you will only remember the history of a ring from Kolín, a village near Prague. They definitely did not make the most of the Jewish folklore. Unrequited 2/5: The idea with a blind spot is not bad, but everything else is. From incorporating the idea into the story, through the story itself, to an abundance of effects instead of hints. The worst episode of the fourth season. Tempus Fugit 3/5: The first part of a two-episode conspiracy story. This time about a mysteriously crashed aircraft. It's not bad, but apart from the ending, nothing much is happening here in fact. Max 4/5: So good that it makes the last part a waste of time. Synchrony 4/5: The theme seems quite cheap even for the X-Files, but it is approached perfectly in the first half. The second part is not bad either, but I personally think that "what happened, happened and always happened, otherwise it could never have happen". Small Potatoes 5/5: So cute little ta ils. When the X Files are not taken seriously, it usually turns out to be unforgettable. When the author of the script is Gilligan, the result turns out to be unforgettable. When the author of the script is Gilligan, the result turns out to be unforgettable. Zero Sum 5/5: Mayas the Bee make things hot and we peep inside the soul and lonely life of the "problem sweeper". It's a useless job. No one will appreciate it. You won't sleep well and on top of that Fox "a burr under your saddle" Mulder won't leave you alone. We want more episodes from Skinner's point of view. Elegy 3/5: Gillian steals the show, and the music is also worth mentioning, which this time creates perfect atmosphere in an unprecedented way. What a pity that the script not only scores an own goal but fails terribly. Demons 3/5: After Scully, also Mulder got his own episode, but like her last time, he has no support in the "The Hangover like" script. Gethsemane 4/5: Hoax escapades, which are perhaps the best idea in the mythological story line for the whole time of X Files. An idea that could have made a stylish ending. But also an idea that remains unused and fades away faster than would be appropriate. The ending must have made insecure many viewers at the time.

The Blessing Way 4/5: The Blessing Way Fox's Indian story line is boring. This time the only driving force is the stubborn Scully performing in "Mulder's role". Paper Clip 5/5: A thrilling episode packed with twists and turns with manipulative chess moves at the end. The best episode of the "trilogy". D.P.O. 4/5: Amazing pre-credential sequence, Ribisi a Jack Black as bad guys and an imaginative run-up of final credential. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 5/5: When he meets a cynical fatalist clairvoyant murdering clairvoyant, they are both happy. And the same applies to the viewers and film reviewers who deservedly flooded this movie with awards. The List 3/5: At first a good atmosphere, but it disappears after the first twenty minutes and then everything is ruined. 2Shy 4/5: If he wasn't stupid, he'd set up a weight loss clinic in LA. Women would flock there and happily pay a lot of money. The Walk 3/5: Horror scenes are great (pool!), but there are only a few of them, so they don't change the impression of the mediocre episode. Oubliette 4/5: The successful combination of the dark thriller à la The Silence of the Lambs with the "paranormal". Nisei 4/5: The first part of an interesting mythological double-episode and one of the first episodes, when a significant inclination towards "cinematographic" is beginning to be seen. 731 3/5: Scully's story line excellent, but not Mulder's due to unintentional second-rate poetics. If the characters had stayed in both lines that are only indicated as shadows, it would have been leveled up. Revelations 3/5: Dana blindly believes everyone and Fox is surprisingly skeptical this time. It´s interesting even alone, so why fragment it with a non-exciting and central story about a boy with stigma? War of the Coprophages 5/5: What suits X Files is when it's making fun of itself, especially when it's as playful, funny and imaginative as in this case. Syzygy 5/5: It starts as a satanic slasher and ends as a stylish grotesque. Sure. Fine. Whatever. And as a bonus the future sexiest man in the world. Grotesque 5/5: Perhaps the darkest and most depressing episode of the entire series. It's obviously preparing us for the depressing thriller "spin-off"Millennium. Piper Maru 4/5: The opening scene with Big Daddy is phenomenal, the rest is worse, but not significantly. Apocrypha 4/5: A mythological episode that is not that much focused on conspiracies and that gives special attention to the characters. Pusher 5/5: Modell is not a match for Horst Fuchs, but he beats Deer Hunter successfully. Teso Dos Bichos 2/5: There is no idea, no tension, it's a harmlesspussycatinstead of fierce puma. Hell Money 3/5: Good topic, moreover, a criminal movie without any supernatural, but making it shorter would make it bett er. Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" 5/5: Reynard Muldrake and Diana Lesky in a refined icing on the cake in terms of narrative starring a Harryhausen alien speaking Shakespearean English (Lord Kinbote!), sheriff who watches his language and references to "someone/something" in literally every shot (I recommend to watch a subsequent screening with the creators' comments). Avatar 4/5: Superb scenes with a "red cloak" (typical Don't Look Now), manages to induce symptoms of insomnia and a nice focus on Skinner. Only the ending should have been more striking. Quagmire 3/5: Either it should have been more serious and without the last shot or more relaxed, but in that case already from the very beginning. Wetwired 4/5: Three in one. It starts as a classic case of strange murders, but it turns onto the purely personal level of the central duo, and culminates as an exemplary conspiracy affair. Talitha Cumi 4/5: A decent solid mythological episode, but not good enough as a final episode of the season.

Little Green Men 4/5: The beginning of the end. The first of the episodes where the mythological story line begins to fully unfold, which will eventually (in many seasons) ruin the X Files. Which does not mean, however, that this episode is not of good quality. On the contrary, from the beginning, the story-telling part was also fun and exciting. The Host 4/5: X Files are still a closed project and Mulder is assigned to inferior tasks. Above average episode, which has something to offer, even if it is "only" another creature from the sewer system. Blood 5/5: "Kill´em all!" A theme that will give you the shivers and a slightly different episode than usual. Sleepless 4/5: Mulder facing the mystery of the strange death of a sleep specialist. Very good at the beginning, but the mediocre second half makes it unnecessarily worse. Duane Barry 4/5: Pre-theme-song scene doesn't make anyone want to watch it. In fact, it does quite the opposite. But the episode itself is very good. The creators finally changed the form of the narrative. Ascension 4/5: "Deny everything."A direct follow-up of the last part, which is even better due to the more tense atmosphere. 3 3/5: The first of the cases of reopened X Files. An average episode about a trio playing modern vampires. One Breath 5/5: A slower episode where we get an insight into some of the characters from a different perspective than before. Firewalker 3/5: An unworthy copy-cat of Ice episode from the first season. Mediocre in all respects. Red Museum 4/5: Undervalued episode that unnecessarily turns into the conspiracy. Excelsis Dei 2/5: Lengthy nothing portraying nothing. Free of any idea nor atmosphere. Aubrey 4/5: Variations on Born Again episode. But a level better. Quite atmospheric and until the "plot twist" also exciting. After that it's rather ridiculous... Irresistible 5/5: The first episode in which nothing supernatural happens. Still, or precisely because of that, it works great. A forerunner of modern detective series. An unforgettable bad guy. Die Hand Die Verletzt 5/5: Occult religion, relaxed atmosphere and Mulder's one-liners. The ideal combination. Fresh Bones 5/5: Voodoo practices and so on. Colony 2/5: Conspiracy cloning is boring. End Game 3/5: Follow-up of the last part, but a better one. Fearful Symmetry 3/5: Restless animals on the run. Død Kalm 4/5: A copy-cat of Darkness Falls from the first season, just with better masks. Also excellent, but not exceptional. Humbug 4/5: Also excellent, but not exceptional. And maybe you will get a bonus, I mean… Glum. The Calusari 4/5: Exorcism in Romanian way. F. Emasculata 5/5: Deadly epidemic without Dustin Hoffman but with a pinch of conspiracy. Soft Light 3/5: Watch out for boring shadow, viewer! Our Town 4/5: Cannibals, cannibals, they eat people. But why they don't eat all of them is one of the greatest mysteries of the whole of X Files. Such a waste. What would hungry Somalian children say? Anasazi 4/5: Together with the first two episodes of the third series, they form a closed trilogy and the most conspiratorial conspiracy story of the whole X Files. I wish all mythological episodes look like this, because this is elegant, the story is progressing and the characters do their best.

Pilot 4/5;; Deep Throat 2/5: Cheap and boring introduction to the mythology of X Files. Squeeze 5/5 I like to move it, move it, he likes to move it move it. Conduit 4/5: The first hint of a much-frequented "kidnapping" topic later on. Unlike most of them, however, well executed. The Jersey Devil 3/5: The creators were able to take advantage of an interesting theme only at the beginning and at the end. It´s an average episode that could (and should) have been much better and shorter. Shadows 3/5: Psychokinesis deserves a better entrée on stage. Routine episode. Ghost in the Machine 2/5: Very weak, and even ridiculous over time, variation on a machine with own brains. Boring. Ice 5/5: "We're not who we are..." Or it another words how it turns out when you shoot a variation on Thing in the setting of X Files. Simply brilliant. Space 3/5It could have been an excellent episode if the director hadn't approached the supernatural elements in a such ridiculous way. Fallen Angel 4/5: Mulder vs. Army, exploring the site of a possible landing of "you-know-what". Eve 5/5: "We just knew..."Fire 4/5If an arsonist has a style it´s is a joy to watch him working. Beyond the Sea 5/5 If Dana and Fox swap their usual roles, if you give them brilliant Brad Douriff as their adversary and if you back everything by a great script, it just can't be a bad episode. This one is one of the greatest highlights of the whole X Files. Gender Bender 4/5: This one is one of the absolute highlights of the whole of X Files. (S)He is the ultimate aphrodisiac that leaves only corpses behind. Good topic, but it should have been more ambiguous. Lazarus 3/5: Swapping bodies/souls. Interesting topic, but only mediocre execution. It would have been better without the supernatural. Young at Heart 3/5: Average and easy to forget episode in all respects. E.B.E. 5/5: "I'm wondering which lie to believe." The creators, unlike many other episodes, have followed the golden rule that says that the viewer is most interested in what remains hidden. Miracle Man 4/5: Praise the Lord! Shapes 3/5: Native American legends about lycanthropy, Native American reservations, and a ranch in the mountains. The first half is great, but at the end the atmosphere disappears. Darkness Falls 5/5: The episodes where Scully and Mulder are cut off from the world in a hopeless situation have always been the showpiece of X Files.This one is probably the best of them. Atmospheric peak of the first series. Plus the exceptional finish. Tooms 5/5: From the title it's clear who is this episode about. As with the first meeting, Eugene Tooms is charismatic. Extremely. Assistant of the FBI Director Walter Skinner appears here for the first time. Born Again 4/5: Good topic, excellent opening half, but then it all gets fragmented into a predictable mediocre movie. Roland 3/5: Another of the episodes where the supernatural storyline is rather detrimental to it. The Erlenmeyer Flask 4/5: The final scene should close one chapter, but at the same time make viewers want to watch more. That worked, especially in the final quarter hour.

The Hurt Locker 1945. Tangible subliminal tension, the more minimalist the more consistent the study of characters in the point break situations (literally), no black-and-white moral questions of collective guilt (taking the skeletons out from the closets, kind of Danish equivalent of displacing German citizens in Czechoslovakia) and all this is topped by impressive subdued performances and unusually apt (and chilling!) musical undertone. It will squeeze emotions out of you through already in recent years trademark (hello Lindholm) Danish reserved approach in, which is delusive with its apparent Nordic coldness. However, the opposite is true, as it gets stuck under the skin more than anything else. Clearly the best (non)-war movie in recent years.

As for stylization, it's pretty much unique. However, it's the stylization I’m not happy about, because the individual styles (poetics of children's adventure, more serious tone and absolutely crazy) do not match each other at all. It does not create one cohesive whole, but it goes on like this for a while and then like that, which breaks down the whole concept and therefore the emotional level does not work, that largely determines its success. So no matter how hard it tries to combine "Little Rambo viewed by Wes Anderson's perspective", the effort produced no results, which although is not boring and nice to watch and quickly passes by, but just as quickly (if not faster) gets out of your head.

Running time is excessively long (especially the third quarter is a bit short of breath), but otherwise it's a good old psycho and perverted ambivalent "Verhoeven movie" based on the suffocating erotic tension of the pathological relationship and (not cheap!) controversy touching several genres, which traditionally uses seemingly incompatible topics. Although it is not for everyone, I would still recommend it to everyone. If for nothing else, then for the enchanting super-performance of Isabelle. Something like this has been seen a few times in a decade and who knows, maybe even less than that.

The potential of the scheme "Red Dead Redemption MMORPG by Philip K. Dick" is unprecedented, but still suffers from excessive exposure. Because most of the time only future great events are implied and the world is being explored including its specific rules on the spot and behind the scenes, so as a result there is somehow no necessary space for the characters themselves. In mostly badly affects the living characters, which are sadly too one-dimensional. In any case, this multi-layered moral reflection is so well played out and captivating that the viewer will dive deep into it. I'm just wondering if the short story form à la The Black Mirror wouldn't fit more, because the power of these themes is based on how each viewer will approach them deep inside. Thus, only time will tell whether the creators will deal with this pitfall with honor or whether they will keep repetitively doing the same all the time.

It’s good to know that dysfunctional families and caring grandmothers with freezers overflowing with cheap long-ago expired food are the same in Japan as well as in the middle of nowhere. Koreeda again approached in a traditional civilian way and with a theme that eleven out of ten directors would not have been able to do without emotional blackmail or at least some cliché. But this doesn’t apply to him. It is a pity that the silence before the storm is far too long (however not boring), given that the "storm" itself is too short.