Continue reading →This is an unexpected discovery from Israel—an assured debut feature about a father and his suicidal daughter that is directed with incredible subtlety and nuance.
Author / Eternality Tan
Unknown Saint, The (2019)
Continue reading →A serious comedy, if you will, from Morocco about the intersection between blind faith and personal greed in an unsuspecting new town.
Killer, The (1989)
Continue reading →This is a top-tier ‘heroic bloodshed’ picture by John Woo—a masterclass in action filmmaking with that rare commitment to pathos.
Hard Boiled (1992)
Continue reading →One of the genre’s greatest achievements, this represents everything that is so virile about John Woo’s unique brand of action cinema.
Tale of Three Sisters, A (2019)
Continue reading →Its extraordinary locational cinematography occasionally threatens to overwhelm the narrative, but its elliptical approach reveals more depth than it appears to have.
It Chapter 2 (2019)
Continue reading →A weaker, overdrawn sequel that doesn’t quite know where to take the characters to—but it can be frightening at times, though also emotionally shallow.
Better Tomorrow, A (1986)
Continue reading →You really can’t get any more ‘Hong Kong classic’ than this masterful actioner by John Woo.
Frantz (2016)
Continue reading →An elegiac if delicately-directed film by Ozon about lies, truths and the aftermath of war affecting the lives of those that continue to live.
By the Grace of God (2019)
Continue reading →A psychologically complex drama with an impressive narrative structure that pits several men against a centuries-old institution, in what is a riveting based-on-a-true-story take on paedophilia and the Church.
It Must Be Heaven (2019)
Continue reading →This droll, sometimes utterly amusing comedy of sight gags, makes certain sharp socio-political observations, but is ultimately too slight and inconsistent a film to really work.
