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Alcarras (2022)

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Let It Be Morning (2021)

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Event, The (2015)

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

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Servant, The (1963)

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Autumn Tale, An (1998)

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Mission: Impossible (1996)

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Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)

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Donbass (2018)

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

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Tag / 2021

May 23, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Let It Be Morning (2021)

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  • Israel, 2021, Eran Kolirin
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A below-par effort by one of Israel’s established directors whose somewhat controversial film about a family trapped by a military lockdown of an Arab town in Israel has a great premise but suffers from an uninteresting execution. 

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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May 6, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Innocents, The (2021)

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  • 2021, Norway
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Movies about children with hidden powers are not a new thing, but in this Norwegian psychological drama with a terrific sound design, writer-director Vogt has created an unsettling portrait of childhood as the thin line between good and evil is explored.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 3, 2022May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Compartment No. 6 (2021)

  • Kuosmanen, Juho
  • 2021, Finland, Juho Kuosmanen
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Kuosmanen’s wintry sophomore feature will satisfy patient viewers looking for a rewarding road trip (on tracks) as a disheartened Finnish woman acquaints with a feisty Russian man whilst travelling on a train from Moscow to Murmansk. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 5, 2022May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Revolution of Our Times (2021)

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  • 2021, Documentary, Hong Kong
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This politically stirring and at times truly heartbreaking Golden Horse-winning documentary gives us that intense journalistic, on the ground experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests from start to end.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Flee (2021)

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  • 2021, Denmark, Documentary
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Animated documentaries may be few and far between, but this is an affecting work that skilfully details an Afghan refugee’s harrowing life story fleeing from war and conflict, and more introspectively, from himself. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Parallel Mothers (2021)

  • Almodovar, Pedro
  • 2021, Pedro Almodovar, Spain
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A mid-tier Almodovar as he weaves a story of mothers and babies against a dark national history—it doesn’t always find a sure footing in terms of tone and theme, but the indelible performances and the auteur’s knack for creating suspense out of melodrama do help.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 25, 2022March 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

In Front of Your Face (2021)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2021, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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Structured like a diptych, Hong’s work here is more meditative than usual as his protagonist tries to find the grace and psychological clarity that have eluded her all her life.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 22, 2022March 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Worst Person in the World, The (2021)

  • Criterion Collection, Trier, Joachim
  • 2021, Joachim Trier, Norway
  • 2 Comments

A romance drama that is also a comedy and an elegy, Trier’s introspective new film has an understated, layered quality—and some cinematic tricks up its sleeves— exploring what this era’s ennui among millennials might feel like. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 20, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Spencer (2021)

  • Larrain, Pablo
  • 2021, Germany, Pablo Larrain, UK
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Kristen Stewart gives a top-tier performance of quiet rage as the tormented Princess Diana in this journey down a psychological hellhole that is as formally-crafted a film as you’ll see this year. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)

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  • 2021, Edwin, Indonesia
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Exciting yet elusive, violent yet convoluted, this Locarno Golden Leopard winner is a strange beast of ideas, tropes and moods.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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