Trials and tribulations beset a Taiwanese family of four in Chung Mong-hong’s intimate and grounded work, one that is blessed with exceptional performances throughout.
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Sun, A (2019)
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Tag / 2019
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American Factory (2019)
A Chinese conglomerate sets up shop in a vacant factory plant in Ohio, transforming livelihoods but also creating cultural and social tensions in this well-made if not particularly memorable Oscar-winning documentary.
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Sibyl (2019)
Triet’s third feature suffers somewhat from haphazard editing as it tells a fragmentary story about a psychotherapist who finds renewed motivation as a writer as she becomes embroiled in the affairs of an aspiring actress.
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Golden Glove, The (2019)
Akin goes terribly off-course with this vile and nihilistic serial killer movie, based on a true story, yet with nothing valuable to say.
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Martin Eden (2019)
Largely satisfying as a personal-political journey of an Italian sailor trying to escape his working-class background by dreaming about being an intellectual writer.
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Saturday Fiction (2019)
Effortlessly mounted and conceptually strong, Lou Ye’s latest starring Gong Li is a dreamlike, meta-layered tale of espionage as the Allies attempt to one-up the Japanese in WWII Shanghai.
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Apollo 11 (2019)
This is an extraordinary documentary about an even more astonishing feat of mankind—the landing on the Moon in 1969—primarily using archival footage, some never seen before, as it details the still mind-boggling journey, one suspenseful step at a time.
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Collective (2019)
This Oscar-nominated documentary pitting bold investigative journalism against dirty politics reveals how the state could be complicit in the killing of innocent citizens as this eye-opening exposé shows us the shocking depths of corruption in Romania’s beleaguered healthcare system.
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Hidden Life, A (2019)
As beautifully-shot as any in Malick’s oeuvre, this three-hour long piece based on a true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis in WWII is somewhat a return to form for the American auteur whose work here might still come across as a tad flat.
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Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
Scorsese’s entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesn’t really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artiste’s defining 1975 tour across America.
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