With the superb pounding drum score, and terrific performances by the cast, this latest effort by Mexican hotshot Inarritu is one of the most entertaining films of the year.
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Birdman (2014)
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Tag / 2014
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Cronenberg mixes the weird with the normal in this anti-Hollywood satire that is biting but doesn’t quite touch the clouds.
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Cut, The (2014)
A sweeping if unremarkable, ‘globe-trotting’ drama about a father who tries to locate his daughters after surviving the Armenian genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Empire, with Faith Akin’s approach too conventional to really compel.
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In the Basement (2014)
S&M aficionados, Nazi sympathizers and more adorn Seidl’s shocking if enlightening tableaux-esque documentary about the bewildering secrets and fetishes that transpire in the basements of Austrian residences.
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Still the Water (2014)
The sea, by turns calm and angry, mirrors the hearts of the young protagonists, who must accept life’s vulnerabilities in Kawase’s poetic piece, shot largely on the southern Japanese island of Amami Oshima.
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As You Were (2014)
Meditative yet at times tonally dissonant, Liao’s work about the shifting temporalities of identity and memory is ultimately elusive.
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Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014)
Cote makes the monotony of industrial labour poetic and hypnotic in this decent documentary exploration of what ‘work’ and ‘working’ means to the blue-collar fraternity.
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Court (2014)
An aged activist is being charged with abetting suicide in this exceptional feature debut that explores class, society and politics through the absurdity of legality.
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Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
As a swords-and-sandals biblical epic, it is fairly spectacular, but remotely engaging.
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Blind Massage (2014)
While the storytelling sometimes struggles to convince, the technical prowess of Lou Ye’s team in capturing the extraordinary performances and putting together one mesmerizing and sensual image after another is deserving of praise.
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