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45 Years (2015)

March 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Roof, The (1956)

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Eo (2022)

March 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Kisapmata (1981)

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Women Talking (2022)

March 19, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Last Stage, The (1948)

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Jetée, La (1962)

March 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Music (2023)

March 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

March 12, 2023March 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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March 19, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Women Talking (2022)

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It will surely spark more conversations on women’s agency in dealing with sexual assault and toxic masculinity, but Polley’s work is visually uninteresting, and the performances might sometimes feel maudlin. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Last Stage, The (1948)

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  • 1948, Poland
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This could very well be the first-ever Holocaust drama, about a group of resilient women who must attempt to survive during the last months of the war, startlingly shot on location at Auschwitz, with many cast and crew who survived the concentration camps. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 12, 2023March 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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  • 2022, Germany
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We haven’t had a great anti-war film in years—this WWI piece comes just as timely in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is as technically accomplished and emotionally involving as some of the finest entries of the genre.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 10, 2023March 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

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  • 2022, USA
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The Daniels’ wacky vision of a ‘multiverse’ action-comedy somewhat revels in its outlandish excess, and is blessed with a cast (headlined by a superb Michelle Yeoh) pretty much game to realise it to its fullest potential. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 7, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Primer (2004)

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  • 2004, USA
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An antecedent to the likes of ‘Tenet‘, this low-budget cult sci-fi sensation about two engineers who discover that they can manipulate time feels so raw and indecipherable that it could just be paralyzingly real.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

À nos amours (1983)

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  • 1983, France, Maurice Pialat
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Sandrine Bonnaire announces herself as one of French cinema’s most compelling actresses in what could be one of Pialat’s most beloved works, which charts the sexual awakening of a teenage girl living with her dysfunctional family.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Tar (2022)

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  • 2022, USA
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This could be the ‘Mulholland Drive’ for this generation—a deliberately-paced hallucinatory deep dive into the physical and psychological realities of a world-famous (if fictional) composer-conductor that sees Todd Field and Cate Blanchett in extraordinary form. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

#LookAtMe (2022)

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  • 2022, Singapore
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Even when it falls back into a kind of televisual style, Kwek’s work is always engaging as it tackles the thorny local LGBT issue with a kind of reactionary bite that is rare in Singapore cinema.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 23, 2023January 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

As You Were (2014)

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  • 2014, Singapore
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Meditative yet at times tonally dissonant, Liao’s work about the shifting temporalities of identity and memory is ultimately elusive.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Martin Eden (2019)

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  • 2019, Italy, Pietro Marcello
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Largely satisfying as a personal-political journey of an Italian sailor trying to escape his working-class background by dreaming about being an intellectual writer.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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