Three men learn the bloodiest lesson ever from a rightfully vengeful woman in Fargeat’s stylish and gleefully exploitative first feature, a lean and mean modern throwback to the New French Extremity movement.
Two female teens hope to seek better opportunities in the body-violating world of modelling in this raw if measured Locarno Golden Leopard winner with strong echoes of Ulrich Seidl and Andrea Arnold.
A boy, forced to stay with his inmate mother in prison, finds a place of imaginative solace in a young political prisoner, as this Turkish classic subverts the ‘prison movie’ by focusing on the communal spirit of women who find a ‘home’ within the four walls.
A tense, suspense-driven war thriller centering on a bomb squad that thrives on unpredictability, even though its shaky-cam excesses and lack of a traditional narrative may wear thin at more than two hours.
Cruise remains committed as ever as Hollywood’s death-defying action star par excellence, but this is such a slog and bogged down by the need to justify the knotty, plotty ideas of the earlier movie.
Cimino’s much-derided, massive financial failure of a film at the time can be appreciated today as a monumental piece of work—an ambitious, indulgent and unorthodox American Western, loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Good but not great, Kaurismaki does ‘60s period drama with his brand of droll comedy as two Finnish men on a test drive encounter two female ‘comrades’ (a Russian and an Estonian) in need of a ride to the harbour.
Leigh’s bleak family drama catches us in an emotional no man’s land, accompanied by a committed performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who plays an incredibly noxious mother who hates people and is in deep pain.
A loyal bodyguard to a mobster boss must think for himself when things go terribly wrong in this compelling and bloody Korean revenge thriller about the inevitability of karmic retribution.
Eternality Tan 