One of Cronenberg’s best films, this Russian-mobsters-in-London crime drama boasts well-developed characters and startling violence, as a nurse inevitably gets too close to exposing the sinister activities of a shady restaurateur.
Wright’s over-the-top, parodic, buddy cop action-comedy is ‘pop’ confetti cinema in pleasing, anything-goes mode, as a police sergeant reassigned to a sleepy countryside town must contend with a spate of gruesome murders.
Lee Chang-dong deeply explores the intertwining nature of love, loss and religious faith, backed by an emotionally intense performance by Jeon Do-yeon.
A Ukrainian woman travels to Austria while an Austrian man travels to Ukraine for work in what could be Seidl’s finest hour as a filmmaker—this is an extraordinary ultra-realist drama about the human costs of being dispensable in the East-West European economic flows.
A masterwork of post-2000s East European cinema, this is an intense and uncompromising Romanian drama about illegal abortion that draws power from its stark visuals and ultra-long takes.
Hogg’s debut feature is an enriching experience, almost Rohmer-esque in its focus on the bourgeois and their conversations as a middle-aged British woman in an unhappy marriage joins a friend’s family for a vacation in Tuscany.
An interesting if somewhat inconsistent experiment with visual language and sound design as Van Sant collaborates with DP Christopher Doyle to capture an intimate psychical portrait of a teenage boy faced with an insurmountable psychological burden.
Enigmatically told with stunning picturesque visuals, Diao’s sophomore film about a frigid woman looking for love in a Chinese industrial town sees him channel the spirit of Antonioni.
Despite the historical importance of the subject matter, Wadja’s personal film is surprisingly uninvolving for long stretches.
This largely-narrated hour-long anime in three parts captures with introspection and quiet solace the bliss and despairing nature of first love, with breathtaking visuals to boot.
Eternality Tan 