One of the most satisfying entries in the series, this third installment has a substantial and emotional storyline to match its superb action.
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New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Diary of a Teenage Girl, The (2015)
Inventive and almost whimsical look at love and sex in this explicit if heartwarming coming-of-age tale.
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24 Frames (2017)
Kiarostami leaves us with a work of indelible beauty, continuing his fascination with the phenomenology of cinema and its relation to the ephemeral.
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Like Someone in Love (2012)
Shot in Japan with a Japanese cast, Iranian master Kiarostami gives us a rueful but tender film about the nature of love, desire and liking.
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Certified Copy (2010)
Kiarostami’s first non-Iranian film is engaging, but the male lead is unable to hold his own against Juliette Binoche.
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Diego Maradona (2019)
It should have a slightly wider appeal than just football fans in general, but this documentary isn’t as spectacular as the genius at its center.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Celine Sciamma’s formidable period piece about two women who find deep comfort and intimacy in each other is at once intellectually stimulating and emotionally devastating.
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Uncut Gems (2019)
Breathless filmmaking by the Safdies that also sees Adam Sandler producing his best performance yet.
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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
An experimental audiovisual essay by an increasingly iconoclastic ‘90s Godard that abstractly ruminates about religion, philosophy, love and politics in the only way he can.
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Taste of Cherry (1997)
Plainfully simple yet thematically complex, this slow and bleak feature remains to be one of Kiarostami’s most profoundly engaging works.
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