One of the great modern urban war films of the last twenty years, directed with masterful skill by Ridley Scott.
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Vortex (2021)
When a loved one has dementia, he or she feels so near yet so far—this universal feeling is ontologically perfected by Noe in cinematic terms through the split-screen technique, which forms the backbone of this grim but emotionally powerful documentary-esque work about ageing, mortality and love.
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Face to Face (1976)
Bergman fashions a character study as a penetrating psychoanalytic exercise featuring what could be Liv Ullmann’s most intensely vulnerable performance as a psychiatrist suffering from a severe mental breakdown.
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RoboCop (1987)
Paul Verhoeven’s Hollywood breakthrough remains a standout violent sci-fi actioner from the ’80s and a decent commentary on mankind’s ill-fated fascination with science and technology.
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Love After Love (2020)
Ann Hui’s latest period piece has a slow-burning elegance, but despite the array of world-class talents involved—Christopher Doyle, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the late Emi Wada—and adapted from an Eileen Chang text no less, it feels too thematically shallow to work.
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Frances Ha (2012)
Baumbach’s charming if at times elegiac black-and-white drama about self-discovery and acceptance features an indelible performance by Greta Gerwig.
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Hero, A (2021)
The finest film Farhadi has put out in years—here he skilfully draws out a complex, delicate drama with weighty themes of morality, truth and honour from a simple premise: a debt-ridden prisoner and a bag of gold coins.
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Licorice Pizza (2021)
PTA’s indelible 1970s romance between a teenage boy and an older woman (Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim are sensational) is akin to a cinematic relaxant, suffused with good, nostalgic vibes yet there’s enough of a slight overdose of unpredictability and peril to last the course.
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Cheerful Wind (1981)
A light-hearted Taiwanese romance starring Feng Fei Fei that sees Hou dabbling in commercial genre cinema early on in his career—there’s little in the way of depth but it is still moderately entertaining.
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Three quite indelible stories about people in love (or not) as coincidences threaten to derail their intimate intentions in this charming Rohmerian comedy set around the beautiful spaces of Paris.
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