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To Singapore, with Love (2013)

June 6, 2026June 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Last Metro, The (1980)

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Blade, The (1995)

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Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

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How to Divorce During the War (2026)

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Useful Ghost, A (2025)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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Eyes Without a Face (1960)

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Category / Criterion Collection

July 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)

  • Criterion Collection, Scorsese, Martin
  • 2019, Documentary, Martin Scorsese, USA
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Scorsese’s entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesn’t really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artiste’s defining 1975 tour across America.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 28, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Police Story 2 (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Others
  • 1988, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan
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Chan does his stunts and comedy with aplomb, but this sequel is let down by a wafer-thin plot and poor pacing.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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July 27, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Fox and His Friends (1975)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1975, Germany, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • 1 Comment

A depressing, slow-burning gay drama that only Fassbinder (also fantastic in the lead role) could have conceived—full of pathos and rich in its depiction of the milieu of a class-divided queer community.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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July 26, 2021May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1967, Japan, Kenji Misumi, Zatoichi
  • 1 Comment

A terrific Zatoichi flick and one of the series’ very best, Misumi’s focus on story and characterisation is the real sleight-of-hand here in this slower but well-paced movie.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 16, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Old Joy (2006)

  • Criterion Collection, Reichardt, Kelly
  • 2006, Kelly Reichardt, USA
  • 1 Comment

It’s so simple—two men go on an impromptu camping trip—yet Reichardt’s cinema of healing is deeply insightful about the ephemeral nature of life and friendship.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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July 14, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

  • Cocteau, Jean, Criterion Collection
  • 1946, France, Jean Cocteau
  • 5 Comments

Under Cocteau’s inventive sleight-of-hand, this early postwar work may be the most magical and poetic adaptation of the beloved fairy tale ever filmed.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 3, 2021April 8, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)

  • Anderson, Wes, Criterion Collection
  • 2001, USA, Wes Anderson
  • 2 Comments

Possibly the finest and most fully-realised of his early works, Wes Anderson tells a quirky story about a family full of eccentric, estranged members looking for some measure of redemption and reconciliation. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 30, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Phoenix (2014)

  • Criterion Collection, Petzold, Christian
  • 2014, Christian Petzold, Germany
  • 2 Comments

Petzold’s unique treatment of the doppelganger story as a Hitchcockian exercise in exorcising the Jewish-German trauma of WWII boasts an extraordinary denouement of unparalleled execution. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 20, 2021May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1967, Japan, Zatoichi
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This is one of the franchise’s most daring entries—bloodier, gorier and more morally ambiguous.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 2, 2021November 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Hero, The (1966)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Satyajit
  • 1966, India, Satyajit Ray
  • 1 Comment

Not as purely cinematic as some of his greatest works, but Ray manages to invoke feelings of introspection as a movie star gets a reality check from strangers—and fans—he encounters on a train.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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