The Romanian master is back with this Berlinale Best Screenplay winner as he continues his deeply unique reflection on human folly and irony, about a bailiff who feels extreme guilt after something devastating happens in her line of work.
Borden’s radical ‘sci-fi documentary’, put together in a gritty, agitprop style, imagines an alternate universe USA, where black lesbian ‘terrorists’ fight for justice for women and the oppressed.
Boyle returns with a banger in this solid third film of the cult zombie franchise, as he finds another peak, sonically and experientially, with this tense, gory and energetic work that is also surprisingly moving as a meditation on mortality.
One of Cronenberg’s best films, this Russian-mobsters-in-London crime drama boasts well-developed characters and startling violence, as a nurse inevitably gets too close to exposing the sinister activities of a shady restaurateur.
This intense Turkish Berlinale Golden Bear winner, with one of the most sickening lead characters in world cinema, is about the blatant abuse of self-imposed power, as a greedy man builds dams to stop water from irrigating the lands of his neighbours.
Half-baked with its ideas, Sorrentino’s polished and aesthetically pleasing anti-myth can’t seem to find a compelling story out of the ‘mythology’ of Parthenope, as a young woman pursues intellectualism instead of leveraging on her seductive beauty.
Today is a special day because I can finally celebrate hitting 3,000 reviews! I started actively watching and writing in 2007, averaging 1,000 reviews every 6 years. Therefore, it makes sense that I would hit this new milestone in 2025.
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Wang Bing adopts his observational documentary style for this rare if not always compelling dramatisation of Mao’s labour camps in the Gobi Desert, as countless starving men faced an unending sense of bleakness, futility and toil.
A crafty businessman with a death wish concocts a shady scheme in Anderson’s new work that seems to have diminishing returns, though backed by strong performances from Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera.
Wong’s rather conventional debut feature is a ‘Mean Streets’-esque gangster thriller that provides cursory pleasures with the odd heady rush of romance, and backed by a trio of committed performances from Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung.
