Bruce Lee’s only directed feature is an amusing actioner with cartoony characters, an ultra-thin plot and pacing issues, culminating in one of the most iconic showdowns in martial arts cinema.
A free-form experiment that sees the filmmaker putting together a feature out of decades of behind-the-scenes footage from around the world—its fragmented moments of joy, anger, trauma and empathy reveal a common humanity even as they refuse to mark time and its deconstruction.
A young black woman in search of her white biological mother gives Leigh’s heartwrenching if occasionally amusing film the kind of narrative and thematic gravitas rarely experienced in such stories about families in crisis, featuring an all-timer performance by Brenda Blethyn.
At times amusing and heartfelt, this gentle and comforting Sundance documentary sees local government agents tasked with surveying the Bhutanese on their ‘Happiness Index’.
There is nothing quite like Greenaway’s perverse ‘zoological’ treatise on human and animal mortality, decomposition and disability, as a car accident leaves a despairing woman without a leg and two grieving twin brothers without their wives.
Weir’s exceptional early career effort is a dreamlike tale about the baffling disappearance of several girls on a school outing as it enigmatically explores what it means to exist, even as forces threaten to erase—or accelerate—one’s fate.
An African hippo is flown to South America in this thoughtful allegory of forced capture, exploitation and fearmongering, with its nebulous cinematic form and unconventional ‘myth-telling’ likely to impress adventurous cinephiles.
A visceral and elemental tale of survival and revenge by Team Inarritu-Lubezki, fronted by a physical, tour-de-force performance by DiCaprio.
Delon’s star-making turn draws us into a tricky narrative about an even trickier trickster, as themes of impersonation and immorality are explored in this elegant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’.
Bong’s latest may lack a distinct thematic through-train and the plot occasionally wobbles along, but its mix of sardonic wit and fun sci-fi action should please most audiences as an expendable man is sent on suicidal scouting missions and ‘reprinted’ back again.
Eternality Tan 