Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.
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Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, The (2016)
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Tag / 2016
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Three (2016)
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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Voyage of Time (2016)
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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Elle (2016)
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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American Honey (2016)
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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Raw (2016)
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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Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
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.
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Hedi (2016)
This Berlinale Silver Bear-winning feature debut is as compelling as it gets, about a young Tunisian man forced to make very difficult decisions for the first time in his uneventful life.
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BFG, The (2016)
Spielberg the fabulist meets Roald Dahl’s prose in this light-hearted, old-school tale that is somewhat an inconsequential entry in the director’s illustrious filmography.
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Sieranevada (2016)
This intense and highly-satisfying three-hour chamber piece revolving around the gathering of an extended family in an apartment is a masterclass in the rigours of acting and blocking.
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Eternality Tan 