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Rose (2026)

September 14, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #26: Alonso Ruizpalacios

September 12, 2026 by Eternality Tan

We Are All Strangers (2026)

September 7, 2026September 7, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #25: Amit Dutta

September 5, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Queen at Sea (2026)

August 31, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Chimes at Midnight (1965)

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American Doctor (2026)

August 18, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Time to Live, a Time to Die, A (1985)

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Dear You (2026)

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My Favourite Films of 2025

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September 14, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Rose (2026)

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  • 2026, Austria, Germany
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A bleak-as-hell meditation on gender identity and trauma, this Berlinale entry finds unexpected grace amid the spectre of the Thirty Yearsโ€™ War, religious oppression and misogyny, with Sandra Hรผller delivering a virtuoso cross-gender performance.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 31, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Queen at Sea (2026)

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  • 2026, UK
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A quietly devastating work, this Berlinale award-winner stuns and finds remarkable sensitivity in its treatment of sexual desire, dementia and love, elevated by immersive performances and riveting family dynamics.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 18, 2026 by Eternality Tan

American Doctor (2026)

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  • 2026, Documentary, Palestine, USA
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A sobering and essential documentary from Sundance that offers ground-zero insight into Gazaโ€™s hospitals through the eyes of three American doctorsโ€”Jewish, Palestinian, and Zoroastrianโ€”while confronting the abject consequences of death, destruction, and state-sanctioned narratives.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

My Father’s Shadow (2025)

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  • 2025, Nigeria
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Set against a nation awaiting change, this Cannes-winning debut feature intertwines father-son bonding with the fissures of an angsty population through rich Malickian visual lyricism and sensorial montage, striking that rare balance between accessibility and artistic ambition.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 6, 2026June 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

To Singapore, with Love (2013)

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  • 2013, Documentary, Singapore, Tan Pin Pin
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A vital and deeply humane documentary about memory, exile, and the costs of political conviction, Pin Pinโ€™s Singapore-banned film reminds us that history does not disappear simply because it has been redacted.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 22, 2026August 18, 2026 by Eternality Tan

How to Divorce During the War (2026)

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  • 2026, Lithuania
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A Lithuanian woman decides to divorce her husband the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in this realistic Sundance Directing Award winner that finds striking resonance in the collision between the personal and political, focusing on one (privileged) family in crisis.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 16, 2026May 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Useful Ghost, A (2025)

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  • 2025, Thailand
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Dust, haunted technology, and political trauma mark this uncanny deadpan Thai comedy where the corporeal and supernatural coexist with grounded preposterousness, as a dead wife returns as a possessed vacuum cleaner to protect her misunderstood husband.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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  • 2026, Documentary, UK
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A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 27, 2026 by Eternality Tan

April (2024)

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  • 2024, Georgia
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A lonely OB-GYN in a rural Georgian hospital faces allegations of malpractice in Kulumbegashviliโ€™s brutally slow-paced, if quietly devastating, sophomore featureโ€”a Haneke-esque moral inquiry marked by hypnotic long takes and sublime use of film language.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Plague, The (2025)

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  • 2025, USA
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A socially awkward boy at a summer water polo camp faces stigmatisation and arbitrary inclusion/exclusion by his peers in this formally assured feature debut, marked by a haunting sound design and body horror that depict bullying as not merely social or pathological but psychosomatic.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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