Continue reading →Dolan’s gift for melodramatic intensity slightly mellows here, but what comes out of it is a newfound sense of storytelling maturity.
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Offside (2019) – Guest Review
Continue reading →The story of a female football team as they prepare for competition season told in a straightforward manner – without turgid narratives about femininity or victory.
Vai (2019)
Shot in long takes in eight parts by nine women filmmakers from the Pacific Islands, this is an illuminating and poetic take on the ‘spirit of existence’.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s most influential film still remains way ahead of its time and is arguably the greatest sci-fi film ever made.
Paths of Glory (1957)
Continue reading →One of the most potent anti-war films ever made… so powerful it makes your blood boil at how some humans can be so despicable.
Killing, The (1956)
Continue reading →Kubrick treats the crime-noir genre in a revolutionary non-linear storytelling way in what is one of the most effective American heist films ever made.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Continue reading →The film that launched Almodovar internationally as an auteur is a tragicomic screwball farce whose effortless execution is as impressive as it is sublime.
Creatures, The (1966)
Continue reading →Varda’s work here is under-appreciated—a layered and surreal collision of imaginary and abstract ideas about a writer’s creative process, and one might even say a tonal antecedent to the modern pictures of Yorgos Lanthimos.
So Long, My Son (2019)
Continue reading →The devastating impact of China’s ‘one-child’ policy is laid bare in this heart-breaking, decades-spanning epic by Wang Xiaoshuai.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Continue reading →Religion and politics collide in frightening ways in this based-on-a-true-story ‘docu-drama’ that ranks as one of Mexican cinema’s greatest films.
