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.
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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.
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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