Spielberg at his unabashedly most entertaining since Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Tag / 1993
Carlito’s Way (1993)
An underrated and fatalistic crime drama led by the Scarface De Palma-Pacino combo, with Sean Penn giving a superlative supporting performance.
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Hard Target (1993)
As an action film, John Woo’s first foray into Hollywood filmmaking ticks the right boxes, plus it’s also one of my favourite Van Damme outings.
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Ocean Waves (1993)
Perhaps unfairly regarded as a minor Ghibli, there’s something deeply charming about its portrayal of teenage infatuation and matters of the heart that are set against the context of high school life.
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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
An experimental audiovisual essay by an increasingly iconoclastic ‘90s Godard that abstractly ruminates about religion, philosophy, love and politics in the only way he can.
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C’est la vie, mon cheri (1993)
Continue reading →This is Hong Kong tear-jerking melodrama at its best, boasting a superb performance by Anita Yuen.
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
A psychological and musical treatise on personal grief by the great Kieslowski, by turns imaginative and humanistic.
Puppetmaster, The (1993)
Continue reading →This is Hou’s masterpiece – a mammoth work about tradition and family, astonishingly crafted, and wrapped in the kind of historical fervour that gives it its power.
