This extraordinary Portuguese docu-fiction is best described as Malick meets Parajanov—a transcendental portrait of what it means to navigate the personal, the familial and the ancestral as a lineage of lived experiences.
Bold and visionary science-fiction, Nolan explores the soul of humanity in his darkest, most ambitious film yet.
A staggering technical and visual storytelling achievement, Nolan’s WWII epic continues his unparalleled run of blockbuster form.
A dogged Turkish beekeeper in rural North Macedonia is the anthropological subject of this ravishingly-beautiful documentary that poetically explores the joys and sadness of personal subsistence.
Tati’s swansong is a delightful circus act (and quite literally, and dazzlingly so) as he implicates artists, entertainers and audience members alike in the performative.
Despite ending rather abruptly, this is a generally intriguing fictional retelling of Mussolini’s private life and affair with the ill-fated Ida Dalser.
A rather overdrawn Italian drama with stark humour by the great Bellocchio that fuses everything from Socialist politics, class system, sexual affairs and the Church that it gets heady at times.
Stunning contributions by cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Philip Glass aside, Scorsese’s religious biopic about the 14th Dalai Lama sometimes feels inert and uninspired from a narrative point-of-view.
A late career high of sorts as Hitchcock returns to the UK to shoot another ‘wrong man’ picture in the guise of a serial killer thriller.
An exercise in suspense filmmaking from the Master, though it lacks narrative drive that leads to little payoff.
Eternality Tan 