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Love (2024)

December 15, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Interview: Guerrilla Metropolitana’s The Benefactress (2025)

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Crash (1996)

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Orlando (1992)

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Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

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Dracula (2025)

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Clouds of May (1999)

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Sirat (2025)

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Bonheur, Le (1965)

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Tag / 2012

June 9, 2025June 16, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • Bigelow, Kathryn
  • 2012, Kathryn Bigelow, USA
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Bigelow’s muscular film overcomes a very info-dense first half with an extremely riveting and tense second half, chronicling the decades-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 13, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Helter Skelter (2012)

  • Others
  • 2012, Japan
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The desire to be eternally beautifulโ€”and eternally relevantโ€”in the modelling world is the subject of Ninagawaโ€™s exuberant and darkly ironic sophomore feature.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 10, 2024February 10, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Paradise: Faith (2012)

  • Seidl, Ulrich
  • 2012, Austria, Germany, Ulrich Seidl
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This could be Seidlโ€™s most provocative work about the moral slippage of religious fanatics, as the faith of an extremely devoted Catholic Austrian woman is tested by the unexpected return of her handicapped Muslim husband.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 31, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Paradise: Love (2012)

  • Seidl, Ulrich
  • 2012, Austria, Germany, Ulrich Seidl
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An Austrian woman goes to Kenya in search of intimacy and connection as Seidl, in his usual provocative mode, explores โ€˜sex tourismโ€™ as both a curse and an antidote to sheer human loneliness.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 29, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Mekong Hotel (2012)

  • Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
  • 2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand
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Perhaps too slight to really work at the level that the Thai auteur usually operates, but there are moments that invite us to ponder about the ephemeral nature of life as a trio of characters pass their time at a hotel by the river.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

  • Strickland, Peter
  • 2012, Peter Strickland, UK
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Strickland explores sound in film in tantalising new ways in this modern cult psychological horror about a British sound engineer hired to work on Italian giallo, who discovers something sinister behind-the-scenes.ย ย ย ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Magic Mike (2012)

  • Soderbergh, Steven
  • 2012, Steven Soderbergh, USA
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Soderberghโ€™s take on the strip show dazzles with sights and sounds, but his film lacks dramatic substance.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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April 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Prometheus (2012)

  • Scott, Ridley
  • 2012, Ridley Scott, USA
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Ridley Scott sets expectations too high in this generally solid sci-fi epic let down by an unfocused screenplay and suspect pacing.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Frances Ha (2012)

  • Baumbach, Noah, Criterion Collection
  • 2012, Noah Baumbach, USA
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Baumbachโ€™s charming if at times elegiac black-and-white drama about self-discovery and acceptance features an indelible performance by Greta Gerwig.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 18, 2021December 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Wolf Children (2012)

  • Hosoda, Mamoru
  • 2012, Japan, Mamoru Hosoda
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This beautiful Japanese animated feature by Hosoda is endearing, but it may feel a bit too lengthy at times.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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