Like Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, this is a film about the nostalgic evocation of time, space, style, and tradition.
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Grandmaster, The (2013)
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Tag / 2013
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Seventh Walk, The (2013)
Dutta explores the psychological and creative inner world of Indian artist Paramjit Singh, who does charcoal painting, through this mesmerising sensorial non-narrative that possesses an airy, seemingly boundless atmosphere.
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Stoker (2013)
A disappointing effort by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook – an unfortunate case of too much style and too little substance.
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Enemy (2013)
A strong mood exercise that brings to the fore a tense psychological mystery that is both twisting and twisted.
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Prisoners (2013)
Denis Villeneuve’s assured direction and Roger Deakins’ evocative cinematography elevates this seemingly generic suburban mystery-thriller into something that will shock and haunt you.
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Dance of Reality, The (2013)
Jodorowsky’s return to filmmaking after 23 years is a dazzling, self-indulgent portrait of his childhood under the surrealistic veil of psychomagic.
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Sacro GRA (2013)
Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.
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‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Wang Bing’s extraordinary observational documentary shows us what it’s like in a mental asylum in China—for four gruelling hours, we find ourselves full of human empathy and incapable of rendering judgment.
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Bling Ring, The (2013)
An empty film with shallow characters, this is Sofia Coppola’s worst hour as a filmmaker.
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Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)
A familiar if exposition-heavy anime that prides itself in being remarkably composed with its sheer beauty and breathtaking visuals.
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