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Tag / 2016

December 30, 2022December 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Boris Without Beatrice (2016)

  • Cote, Denis
  • 2016, Canada, Denis Cote
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A filthy rich, cold-hearted and adulterous man hopes that his melancholia-stricken wife will recover as Cote’s intriguing work asks what it means to search one’s own soul.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 24, 2022July 26, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Death of Louis XIV, The (2016)

  • Serra, Albert
  • 2016, Albert Serra, France, Spain
  • 2 Comments

French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud lies bedridden for two hours in Albert Serra’s exquisite, slow-burning 18th-century take on the agonising final days of the famous Sun King, shot with such a high fidelity to history that one might mistake it for documentary authenticity. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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May 10, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Doctor Strange (2016)

  • Popular
  • 2016, USA
  • 1 Comment

One of Marvel’s most visually fascinating movies to date, but certainly not one (or two) of their finest hours.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 10, 2022April 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy (2016)

  • Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh
  • 2016, Chad, Documentary, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
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An essential African documentary about the brutality of Habre’s regime as recalled by Chadian survivors seeking justice and closure from the unimaginable trauma that they continue to suffer decades after. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 2, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, The (2016)

  • Kuosmanen, Juho
  • 2016, Finland, Juho Kuosmanen
  • 1 Comment

Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Three (2016)

  • To, Johnnie
  • 2016, Hong Kong, Johnnie To
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To’s odd anti-action structural experiment takes too long to build up a self-contained story set in a hospital ward as doctors, cops and criminals try to outwit one another psychologically, that when the action comes, it feels like a stylistic distraction.    

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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January 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Voyage of Time (2016)

  • Malick, Terrence
  • 2016, Terrence Malick, USA
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The philosophising of Malick meets the ephemeral beauty of nature in this imperfect shortened IMAX version that shows how the Universe first started, and subsequently life on Earth.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 13, 2021February 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Elle (2016)

  • Verhoeven, Paul
  • 2016, France, Paul Verhoeven
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Isabelle Huppert is indeed the mesmerizing star of this twisted psychological drama, oozing with suspense marked by unease, foreshadowing and dread.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

American Honey (2016)

  • Arnold, Andrea
  • 2016, Andrea Arnold, UK, USA
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There’s both a sense of energy and listlessness to the filmmaking, with a story or two waiting to pop out, but that never materializes through the course of this sprawling, ambitious road movie.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Raw (2016)

  • Ducournau, Julia
  • 2016, France, Julia Ducournau
  • 2 Comments

This superb debut feature is a confidently-mounted campus cannibal horror film with a fascinating character arc for its leading lady.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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