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Zatoichi’s Cane Sword (1967)

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Icarus (2017)

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First Cow (2019)

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Long Walk, The (2019)

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News of the World (2020)

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Golden Thread, The (1965)

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One Second (2020)

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All Is Forgiven (2007)

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Matrix, The (1999)

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Tag / 2016

February 20, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Dearest Sister (2016)

  • Do, Mattie
  • 2016, Laos, Mattie Do
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Mattie Do somehow makes this Laotian drama with horror elements work despite a convoluted denouement.  

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Handmaiden, The (2016)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2016, Park, Chan-wook, South Korea
  • 2 Comments

A sexually-explicit Korean lesbian film that proves to be invitingly perverse under the hands of visual master Park Chan-wook.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 19, 2021January 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Arrival (2016)

  • Villeneuve, Denis
  • 2016, Denis Villeneuve, USA
  • 2 Comments

You are in the hands of a consummate filmmaker bringing both science-fiction and humanistic elements seamlessly together in a film that is one of 2016’s finest.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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January 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Woman Who Left, The (2016)

  • Diaz, Lav
  • 2016, Lav Diaz, Philippines
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Lav Diaz’s Venice Golden Lion winner has its beautiful cinematic moments, but its diminishing returns are at best tolerable.    

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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January 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Great Wall, The (2016)

  • Zhang, Yimou
  • 2016, China, Zhang, Yimou
  • 1 Comment

Fairly entertaining inasmuch as it is a CG-fest ‘historical fantasy’ with spectacular visual flourishes, but ultimately generic and mechanical in its execution.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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December 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Endless Poetry (2016)

  • Jodorowsky, Alejandro
  • 2016, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chile
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With bizarre artifice and sheer ingenuity, Jodorowsky’s second autobiographical film celebrates life and art.  

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 29, 2020 by Eternality Tan

13th (2016)

  • Others
  • 2016, Ava DuVernay, Documentary, Netflix, USA
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It may sometimes feel too didactic, but this documentary about the proliferation of prisons in the US as set in the context of racial inequality has its moments of shocking power.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 22, 2020November 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Certain Women (2016)

  • Criterion Collection, Reichardt, Kelly
  • 2016, Kelly Reichardt, USA
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A triptych of stories of ordinary women in Montana, whose vulnerabilities and desires are given the quiet Kelly Reichardt touch in this slow and contemplative work.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Fire at Sea (2016)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2016, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy
  • 1 Comment

A deserving Golden Berlin Bear winner that powerfully documents the troubling migrant crisis from the vantage point of an Italian island and her life-goes-on inhabitants.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 20, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Dreamed Path, The (2016)

  • Schanelec, Angela
  • 2016, Angela Schanelec, Germany
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Enigmatic and quiet by design, this formally-rigourous work brings Schanelec’s brand of austere cinema to its logical extreme as she once again explores human relationships in existential flux.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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