To help you make your choices, here are the 3 films of the week best rated by the press and spectators on AlloCiné!*
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO THE PRESS:
1st: The Chef – 3.9/5
“For his first feature film, the British Philip Barantini pulls off a masterstroke by evoking an environment whose intricacies he knows.” By Michaël Mélinard (L’Humanité)
“A real-time dive behind the scenes of a kitchen, coupled with a reflection on the creative process of cinema.” By Ludovic Béot (Les Inrockuptibles)
2nd: Nightmare Alley – 3.8/5
“A successful fable of monsters, which pays homage to film noir and the fantastic, carried by a monstrous cast. Bradley Cooper imposes himself as a chameleon of the big screen in front of the director’s camera and signs here without doubt his most remarkable performance .” By Julie Hay (Le Journal du Geek)
“Basically, Nightmare Alley perhaps reveals what we had always dreamed of seeing del Toro do, with his own creative vitality, to achieve osmosis between heavy machinery and formal fetishism, beyond the “Disney for adults” standard.” By Sandra Onana (Liberation)
3rd: Michael Cimino, an American mirage – 3.6/5
“As if emerging from the darkness, Cimino’s hoarse voice, recorded during a previous trip, completes to give the whole the force of an elegy.” By Jérémie Couston (Télérama)
“Interspersed with bewitching road sequences, where the ribbon of asphalt flanked by plains or snow-capped peaks, at the magic hour, is reminiscent of certain paintings by Georgia O’Keefe, “Michael Cimino, an American mirage” is a road movie about a country-psyche.” By Baptiste Roux (Positive)
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO VIEWERS:
1st: Nightmare Alley – 4.0/5
“Guillermo Del Toro takes the time to unfold his story and his universe, while continuing to dissect the human psyche and explore the monster that can lurk in each of us. A Film Noir with fantastic accents, talking about illusions, like fabricators who create them.” By Cinévore24
“It’s a grandiose film in subtlety and narrative construction, it asks questions that agitate us, it leaves us pensive of the mysteries it contains.” By Zolae
2nd: The Chef – 3.9/5
“A sequence shot of rare tension. Everything rings true and true. The Chef, the film or the main character, is tragically moving.” By Mary B.
“Suddenly, even if the form far outweighs the content, it’s a big hat to the technical team, and to the actors, all absolutely fabulous. The machine never seizes up, no downtime, he had to need some rehearsals!” By emma emma
3rd: Memory Box – 3.7/5
“First crush of 2022 for this Franco-Lebanese film. So much beauty and purity in this film, so many emotions, so much joy and happiness.” By le_criticoeur
“A moving film and an incredible cinematographic work. The film retraces the Lebanon of the 80s through the generations, with actresses of magnificent accuracy, including Paloma Vauthier and Manal Issa. It is an important film today, that I absolutely recommend.” By Lucy
* According to the ratings of the AlloCiné barometer, as of Friday January 21, 2022, for films released in theaters on Wednesday January 19 with at least 10 reviews for the top press and 50 ratings for the top viewers. These two tops do not include films already released once or several times in France.