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.
One of Marvel’s most visually fascinating movies to date, but certainly not one (or two) of their finest hours.
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.
Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.
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.
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.
Isabelle Huppert is indeed the mesmerizing star of this twisted psychological drama, oozing with suspense marked by unease, foreshadowing and dread.
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.
This superb debut feature is a confidently-mounted campus cannibal horror film with a fascinating character arc for its leading lady.
More educative than cinematic, Herzog’s documentary about technology, particularly the affordances and perils of the Internet, lacks the cutting-edge incisiveness of more well-developed treatises on the subject.
Eternality Tan 