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.
Author / Eternality Tan
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.
Red Cliff II (2009)
Port Authority (2019)
Continue reading →This debut feature may be raw at times, but there’s an undeniable organic quality to the filmmaking about a young man who meets a trans woman in the New York kiki scene.
Midsommar (2019)
Ari Aster’s sophomore effort may be too disturbing for the uninitiated viewer, but its strange, otherworldly quality is an experience like no other.
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Giant Little Ones (2018)
Continue reading →A youthful and nuanced exploration of teenage sexual identity and emotional intimacy that freshly tries to skip past clichés.
Hereditary (2018)
Not even Toni Collette’s arresting performance or the film’s excellent craftsmanship can save this rather uncompelling and overrated horror mystery.
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Weathering with You (2019)
Continue reading →It remains visually and aurally stimulating, but Makoto Shinkai’s new work doesn’t really fly off the ground, and ultimately succumbs to perfunctory storytelling and a so-so emotional payoff.
Pluto Moment, The (2018)
6th Generation Chinese filmmaker Zhang Ming tackles modern loneliness and ennui with quiet artistry in this remarkable drama about a film crew trying to make a picture but becomes lost (in all senses of the word) in the process.
