A French computer programmer attempts to create a game about WWII’s Battle of Okinawa but faces an existential crisis when history, memory and trauma become mediated by the throes of technological change in this spectral final feature documentary from one of cinema’s foremost experimenters.
Fun, wacky and occasionally surprising, Gerwig’s candy-coloured third solo feature tries to say something about the perils of gender oppression and excessive commodification with moderate success.
Intentionally shot out of focus, Hong’s impressionistic and ‘painterly’ new work about an actor-turned-director in search of an idea to shoot a short film doesn’t always work, but its meta-filmic final act is sublime.
Shot entirely on a soundstage in France, this Cannes Camera d’Or-winner put Vietnamese cinema on the world map, as Tran straddled between formal artistry and the artifice of cultural self-exotification in this quaint film about a quiet servant-girl working for an affluent family.
Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love steal the show in this entertaining textbook biopic on the infamous multi-millionaire publisher of pornographic magazines who fought valiantly against the religious right for the freedom of expression.
A faltering work of great ambition, or an artistic triumph bogged down by chronic unevenness, Gomes brings to it a plethora of aesthetical styles and nonchalant attitude towards film form to deliver a biting satire on Portugal’s politics, economy and culture.
A small-town priest must contend with the silence of God as he is overwhelmed with existential doubts in one of Bergman’s sparest works about the limits of religious faith.
Diop’s exceptional observational documentary about a French GP whose clinic is dedicated to serving refugees has tremendous emotional power, alongside its sobering insights on the vulnerability of the human condition.
Tom Cruise, the consummate entertainer, once again shows us why he’s Hollywood’s last action hero in this penultimate M:I outing that is somewhat bogged down by plotting that is way too reliant on its airy-fairy MacGuffin.
A milestone in European art cinema, and an intentionally futile exercise in finding meaning in our seemingly meaningless existence.
