A man in severe debt refuses to sell his family mansion in this deliberately-paced Sri Lankan film that deals with the inner turmoil of a person caught between misguided superstition and the prospect of personal redemption.
Eco-โterrorismโ is explored in this tense and pulsating thriller about a group of environmental activists planning to bomb an oil pipeline in Texas as they try to find a precarious balance between agency and morality.
Visionary in the worst possible way, Folmanโs live-action/animation hybrid packs in so many ideas about time, legacy and existence that it all seems so muddled, uneven and uninvolving.
It will surely spark more conversations on womenโs agency in dealing with sexual assault and toxic masculinity, but Polleyโs work is visually uninteresting, and the performances might sometimes feel maudlin.ย
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.
We havenโt had a great anti-war film in yearsโthis WWI piece comes just as timely in the wake of Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine, and is as technically accomplished and emotionally involving as some of the finest entries of the genre.
The Danielsโ wacky vision of a โmultiverseโ 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.
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.
This could be the โMulholland Driveโ for this generationโa 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.
Even when it falls back into a kind of televisual style, Kwekโs 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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