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Amoeba (2025)

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Beaches of Agnes, The (2008)

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Trial, The (1962)

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Category / Criterion Collection

November 9, 2022November 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1949, UK
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Morally dubious yet perversely funny, this is one of the most outstanding black comedies produced by the Ealing Studios as one outsider with a royal lineage seeks to eliminate all that stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 8, 2022March 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

White Sheik, The (1952)

  • Criterion Collection, Fellini, Federico
  • 1952, Federico Fellini, Italy
  • 1 Comment

Fellini’s first solo feature as director would lay some of the artistic groundwork for his career in this sporadically entertaining comedy about a newlywed’s rendezvous with a โ€˜romantic ideal’ on her honeymoon in Rome.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Broadcast News (1987)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1987, James L. Brooks, USA
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Sparks truly fly in this superb film about a love triangle set in the milieu of television reporting, featuring a terrific Holly Hunter as a feisty news producer. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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September 12, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Rouge (1987)

  • Criterion Collection, Kwan, Stanley
  • 1987, Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan
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Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung star in this movie straddling between two eras with a ghost story in the mix, directed by Stanley Kwan with a strong sense of melancholy and nostalgia.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Le doulos (1962)

  • Criterion Collection, Melville, Jean-Pierre
  • 1962, France, Jean-Pierre Melville
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Twists and revelations are aplenty in this intricately-plotted, suspense-driven crime noir that sees Melville and Belmondo collaborate for the second time.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 26, 2022August 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Traffic (2000)

  • Criterion Collection, Soderbergh, Steven
  • 2000, Steven Soderbergh, USA
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Soderbergh is at his commanding best in this powerful and unsettling film that captures the essence of the U.S-Mexico drug trade as it is, and without the need to moralise.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 23, 2022February 6, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Bob le flambeur (1956)

  • Criterion Collection, Melville, Jean-Pierre
  • 1956, France, Jean-Pierre Melville
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Melvilleโ€™s sly if laidback anti-heist noir (if there ever was one) is an absorbing take on how individuals and the collective operate in matters of vice and deception. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 22, 2022November 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi at Large (1972)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1972, Japan, Kazuo Mori, Zatoichi
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Despite a sensational action finale that rivals some of the best in the series, this 23rd instalment seems to have been made from a script that is one or two revisions away from being ready. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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August 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Peeping Tom (1960)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael
  • 1960, Michael Powell, UK
  • 1 Comment

The picture that destroyed Powellโ€™s career, this disturbing work about a serial killer who perversely films his victims as they die is now regarded as a major influence on the modern slasher movie, and a provocative exploration of the ills of scopophilia.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Ace in the Hole (1951)

  • Criterion Collection, Wilder, Billy
  • 1951, Billy Wilder, USA
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Kirk Douglas is sensational as an amoral journalist with an acerbic wit, who exploits the news of a man trapped in a cave, as Wilder gives us one of his most cynical films.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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