An excellent lead performance by a child aside, this is too postcard picture-perfect and poorly-paced a film about the torrid experiences of surviving the Khmer Rouge regime to be considered essential viewing.
Despite the strength of the leading cast, this is an unexpectedly insipid movie by Edward Zwick.
Shot in the Punjabi language, Gurvinder Singh’s Venice Orrizonti-selected first feature is both meandering and meditative at the same time, with fine attention to environmental detail.
A predictable historical war film about survival and the human spirit that mostly benefits from steady direction by Edward Zwick.
Electrifying filmmaking at times, this Cannes Camera d’Or-winning feature debut depicts a rebellious minority female teen from a French suburb who is suffering from social disenfranchisement as she seeks to make a better life for herself.
This powerful and tragic German anti-war film pits a group of drafted schoolboys-turned-inexperienced-soldiers against the advancing Americans as WWII draws to a close.
Cronenberg Jr’s second feature sees him tackle techno-existential sci-fi with more assurance (but also with more narrative convolution) in this gory tale involving mind-controlled assassinations.
A modest but effective Sundance award-winning drama about patriarchal conservatism rearing its ugly head as an older Bedouin daughter in a traditional Arab family awaits her fateful future.
A hard-hitting ‘survival’ film of sorts in two movements, one set in a rural Indian village and the other in Calcutta city, that depicts an ‘Untouchable’ couple’s severe hardship as they try to navigate poverty, helplessness, and even lawlessness, in a terribly unforgiving world.
Pepe the Frog gets unceremoniously thrown into the US sociopolitical mixer in this insightful documentary about the pervasiveness of memes, perils of Internet culture and one man’s—creator Matt Furie—angst toward all that is wrong with American society.
Eternality Tan 