Continue reading →A respectable effort by Almodovar that balances melodrama with the mystery-thriller.
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Volver (2006)
Continue reading →Almodovar handles with dexterity a range of emotions in this intriguingly-structured drama.
Farewell, The (2019)
Continue reading →Billed as one of the year’s best pictures, and quite rightly so, as the film’s mastery of its tragicomic tone and a solid ensemble cast combine to reach both tearjerking and comedic highs.
For Sama (2019)
Continue reading →As personal and harrowing a documentary can be, this powerful and heart-wrenching work captures a mother’s ‘video diary’ of the daily struggles in Aleppo, Syria, as the brutal 2016 siege by the Assad regime drew frighteningly near.
Jinpa (2018)
Continue reading →Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden explores karmic guilt and moral redemption in this slow but compelling arthouse work.
Hangover, The (2009)
This is highly-accomplished raunchy comedy filmmaking for the modern age, and no doubt one of the best films of 2009.
Joker (2019)
Continue reading →What a strange and risk-taking studio movie this is—a disturbingly-violent Hollywood-style if also arthouse-type character study that just about holds everything together thanks to a killer performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
French Cancan (1955)
Continue reading →Renoir’s musical-romance is full of colour, schmaltz and spectacle, marked by some astonishing sequences of dance choreography and editing.
Grand Illusion (1937)
Continue reading →A treasured work from Jean Renoir that deals with class issues in the context of war in this unorthodox prisoners-of-war story.
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