Continue reading →A social realist work that blends uniquely with a kind of meditative elegy, this rather strong Thai debut feature also features one of the great soundscapes of the year.
Tag / 2018
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Continue reading →Rohrwacher is surely one of the most exciting directors working today, delivering a truly mesmerising and thematically-dense work of art.
Hotel by the River (2018)
Continue reading →A more melancholic work by Hong than usual, shot in beautiful black-and-white.
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Continue reading →A Jia Zhangke enthusiast might find this very much a recycling of past themes—not that it is any bad, but that greatness seems elusive as the film progresses.
Image Book, The (2018)
Continue reading →As esoteric and fragmentary as one would expect from late career Godard—trying to say something about the world by being impenetrable.
Non-Fiction (2018)
Continue reading →Assayas’ new film is talky in the very best sense, capturing themes of digitalisation and socialisation with effortless ease.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Continue reading →Dazzling with bold and eclectic visuals, but its high-concept while expanding the possibilities of the superhero genre still falls back to conventional narrative beats and stock villainous characters.
Capernaum (2018)
Continue reading →Could be dramatically overwhelming at times, but this Cannes Jury Prize winner more or less pulls through admirably, with an extraordinary performance by its non-professional leading child actor.
Annihilation (2018)
Continue reading →A different kind of measured, mainstream sci-fi that is almost like its thematic preoccupation—that of mutability where there is just enough change to enthrall and thrills to excite.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The (2018)
Continue reading →Seeing the freedom the Coens had in making this omnibus of Western ‘shorts’ is delightful, though it is a minor work with inherent unevenness.
Eternality Tan 