A light-hearted adventure-comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood with a predictable storyline but outstanding period production design.
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A light-hearted adventure-comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood with a predictable storyline but outstanding period production design.
Not exactly fully-developed, but interesting nonetheless – this is an animation about an apocalyptic world that is more suitable for teenagers than kids.
This war film shot in Cambodia and lensed by the great Raoul Coutard strongly emphasises on realism, but may feel slightly underwhelming.
Intercutting archival footage from state-controlled television with Brechtian style enactments, Radu Jude’s indictment of 1980s Communist Romania will test the patience of even the most hardened experimental-arthouse cineaste.
Varda’s beautiful work about the deep friendship between two French women trying to find meaning in their womanhood is fiercely feministic underneath its warm, understated filmmaking style.
Arguably Orson Welles’ finest hour as a director and actor, this resurrected masterpiece remains to be one of cinema’s most extraordinary adaptations of Shakespeare.
China’s turbulent 20th century history is captured sweepingly in Mabel Cheung’s effective if straightforward film about the contributions and exploits of three pivotal sisters.
Hogg’s annoyingly pretentious film is a slog to get through, so it’s bewildering to see nearly every critic thinking it is a godsend.
This late career work by French comic master Jacques Tati has uncharacteristic pacing problems, though if you like automobiles, it is a charming snapshot of cars and trucks of the early 1970s.
The great Jacques Tati delivers outrageously inventive comedy visual gags in some of the most elaborate mise-en-scene committed to film.