Song Kang-ho is superb in this highly-engaging mainstream drama based on the dark history that was the 1980 Gwangju Uprising as a taxi driver unwittingly brings a German reporter to the site.
A girl is forced to dress like a boy in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan to help her family make ends meet in this splendidly animated tale that perhaps relies too much on a parallel account of a mythical fantasy to work.
As admirable as Ridley Scott’s ticking time-bomb decision to recast and reshoot the film is, this is an unexceptional work that struggles to elevate itself despite strong performances by Christopher Plummer and Michelle Williams.
Scott’s follow-up to ‘Prometheus’ is a full-scale R-rated blockbuster that will thrill mainstream adult audiences, maybe even fans, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the sheer filmmaking prowess of the first two ‘Alien’ films.
A naïve teenage girl gives birth but her wily mother has other sinister ideas in this well-directed Mexican drama that is not afraid to go down a morally contentious path.
Shot in nine long takes, this Tunisian drama about systemic failure economically if harrowingly shows us what it feels like to suffer under pervasive toxic masculinity, as a woman on a night out tries to seek justice after being sexually assaulted by several policemen.
Edgar Wright’s engaging if offbeat heist film ticks like clockwork, and is accompanied by a terrific iPod playlist for a soundtrack.
Even non-climbing enthusiasts will fall in love with Tommy Caldwell in this well-made documentary as he and his climbing partner attempt to free climb a route up the legendary El Capitan that had been deemed impossible to scale.
Spielberg’s journalistic procedural is a masterclass in supple filmmaking that is equally at ease portraying nuance as well as galvanising action.
This heartfelt, partially-animated documentary centering on a Japanese man who lost his wife in the 2011 tsunami doesn’t have any pretensions and works because of its sincerity.
Eternality Tan 