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Three Colors: White (1994)

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Love Eterne, The (1963)

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Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

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Afire (2023)

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Tag / 2005

February 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Tale of Cinema (2005)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2005, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A more melancholic piece than some of Hong’s breezier offerings as he explores fictive ideals and sad realities through the idea of cinema as a mirror image. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Blood (2005)

  • Escalante, Amat
  • 2005, Amat Escalante, Mexico
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Some may find it tedious, but Escalante’s modest feature debut showcases the cinema of the mundane—it portrays the quiet, unexciting daily life of a couple, and through it, reveals what is psychologically tormenting and unsaid.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

  • Zhang, Yimou
  • 2005, China, Japan
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A mid-2000s departure from his wuxia epics, Zhang’s largely restrained work about an aged Japanese father travelling to China to film a traditional mask opera for his estranged dying son ultimately teeters towards the emotionalism of the director’s earlier melodramas.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 18, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Lady Vengeance (2005)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2005, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
  • 2 Comments

The third part of Park’s ‘Vengeance’ trilogy explores sin, atonement and poetic justice in the only way he can—through an intricately-plotted narrative, strong visual flair and explicit violence. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 16, 2021October 27, 2021 by Eternality Tan

New World, The (2005)

  • Criterion Collection, Malick, Terrence
  • 2005, Terrence Malick, USA
  • 3 Comments

Certainly not one of Malick’s best, but this extraordinarily beautiful film—in its 172-minute extended cut—sees the director at his most lyrical and self-indulgent.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

  • Others
  • 2005, George Clooney, USA
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Clooney’s finest moment as a director is this tightly-structured black-and-white tribute to pioneering broadcast journalist Edward Murrow as he battled McCarthyism head-on in the 1950s. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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September 23, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Squid and the Whale, The (2005)

  • Baumbach, Noah, Criterion Collection
  • 2005, Noah Baumbach, USA
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Shot in intimate 16mm, this is one of Baumbach’s finest and tightest dramedies, about a family of four trying to navigate an inconvenient but necessary divorce, backed by all-round excellent performances by the main cast.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 22, 2021September 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

War of the Worlds (2005)

  • Spielberg, Steven
  • 2005, Steven Spielberg, USA
  • 5 Comments

Pure adrenaline fun and thrills in this modern update by Spielberg.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 14, 2020September 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Batman Begins (2005)

  • Nolan, Christopher, Popular
  • 2005, Christopher Nolan, USA
  • 3 Comments

Perhaps the deepest film, philosophically speaking, of the trilogy, as Nolan delivers a compelling entertainer that asks not who but what Batman is.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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August 11, 2019August 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Jarhead (2005)

  • Mendes, Sam
  • 2005, Sam Mendes, USA
  • 2 Comments

A war movie that is intentionally ‘all talk but no action’—it doesn’t really make us feel for the characters, but we might just grasp the futility of being a cog in the machine.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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