Continue reading →Though backed by a strong cast, this is a movie of two halves with an inconsistent tone.
Author / Eternality Tan
Yomeddine (2018)
This Egyptian drama has an enriching human story to tell, but the execution is unfortunately sappy and slight.
Road to Mandalay, The (2016)
An excellent low-key drama about the perils of working in a foreign country as an illegal immigrant, directed with assurance and confident pacing by rising filmmaker Midi Z.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
It’s a very small step forward in the right direction, but this is still a mediocre ‘Terminator’ movie.
Shining, The (1980)
Continue reading →A masterpiece of baroque horror cinema that continues to haunt through tone, technique and characterisation.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s final film is a calculated psychosexual trip filled with paranoia, moral depravity and sexual fantasies and excesses.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece frustrates, angers, provokes, and ultimately floors you in ways unlike that of other great films.
Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)
This delightful award-winning Israeli film scores with its unique portrayal of Palestinian-Israeli tensions, one that is marked by dramatic pretence and cold humour.
Pain & Glory (2019)
Continue reading →Possibly Almodovar’s most personal film to date, this is a bittersweet ode to how cinema has changed his life and the burdens and regrets he still carries—through an alter ego as played by a sublime Antonio Banderas.
