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Disclosure Day (2026)

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 by Eternality Tan

My Father’s Shadow (2025)

June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Touki bouki (1973)

June 12, 2026June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

To Singapore, with Love (2013)

June 6, 2026June 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Last Metro, The (1980)

June 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Blade, The (1995)

May 26, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

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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Category / Criterion Collection

January 17, 2019November 30, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Vivre sa vie (1962)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1962, France, Jean-Luc Godard
  • 6 Comments

Twelve uneven vignettes form Godard’s loosely-structured tale of a woman’s descent into prostitution, made with the creative spirit of some of his best works.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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January 16, 2019December 5, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Secret of the Grain, The (2007)

  • Criterion Collection, Kechiche, Abdellatif
  • 2007, Abdellatif Kechiche, France
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A staggering masterwork about an extended Arab family living in France—their intimate lives, their buzzing families, the wonderful food, and their hopes and struggles.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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January 13, 2019August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Breathless (1960)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1960, France, Jean-Luc Godard
  • 15 Comments

Perhaps the most canonical of French New Wave movies other than Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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January 13, 2019November 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)

  • Criterion Collection, Kechiche, Abdellatif
  • 2013, Abdellatif Kechiche, France
  • 4 Comments

One of the most intricate of screenplays ever written in recent years paired with an extraordinary performance by Adele Exarchopoulos places this powerful yet sensitive drama in a class of its own.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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January 9, 2019May 20, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

  • Coen, Joel & Ethan, Criterion Collection
  • 2013, Joel & Ethan Coen, USA
  • 1 Comment

The Coens pull off one of the finest films of the decade in this soulful and enigmatic effort starring a broodingly good Oscar Issac.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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December 31, 2018October 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Miller’s Crossing (1990)

  • Coen, Joel & Ethan, Criterion Collection
  • 1990, Joel & Ethan Coen, USA
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Only their third feature, the Coens show that they could do a 1930s gangster movie in a style of their own.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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December 30, 2018November 27, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blood Simple (1984)

  • Coen, Joel & Ethan, Criterion Collection
  • 1984, Joel & Ethan Coen, USA
  • 10 Comments

This is the work of two idiosyncratic brothers toying with cinematic possibilities and getting it right on the first try.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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December 24, 2018May 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

  • Criterion Collection, Cuaron, Alfonso
  • 2001, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico
  • 5 Comments

A road trip across Mexico, oozing with eroticism and the joys and agonies of living, in what is Cuaron’s most liberating picture to date.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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December 23, 2018May 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Roma (2018)

  • Criterion Collection, Cuaron, Alfonso
  • 2018, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico
  • 5 Comments

Cuaron’s most personal film to date is one of the decade’s very best, a testament to cinema’s power to capture life, memory and emotion in this restraint if audacious work.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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December 21, 2018April 8, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Short Film About Killing, A (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 5 Comments

Kieslowski juxtaposes empathy with morality in this powerful film – as essential a watch as any in cinema on the nature of killing, government-sanctioned or otherwise.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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