Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Aster reinvents his wheel of perverse creativity with this epic three-hour odyssey as a man (Joaquin Phoenix in a fantastic performance) suffering from chronic anxiety and the inability to take responsibility embarks on a Freudian journey of self-confrontation.
A wild, zany, and sometimes, indulgent meta-film in the hands of Kim Jee-woon, about a tormented filmmaker hoping to reshoot an alternate ending that won’t go down well with the authorities.
Hong’s trademark stylistic minimalism and meditation on the meaning of art and life remain intact if nondescript, featuring two seemingly unrelated stories connected by a shared fondness for eating ramyeon with pepper paste.
The death of nine sheep at the jaws of a snow leopard incurs the wrath of a sheepherder in Tseden’s occasionally farcical take on small-town moralities as the ideals of ‘law’ and ‘justice’ are challenged.
While it doesn’t seem as clever a ‘hitman’ film as Linklater probably imagined it to be on paper, his attempt should provide some cursory pleasures, fashioning a mildly transgressive romance between a fake contract killer working for the police and his client.
Dupieux’s outstanding single-location film works as a sardonic meta-filmic commentary on art and performance as an audience member with a gun takes a theatre show hostage for producing ‘boring work’.
Erice is back after 31 years with a compelling but somewhat unconvincing work that is part mystery, part love letter to cinema, and a meditation on mortality, old age and the passing of time, as an unresolved case of a missing actor is reopened after many decades.
An African migrant crisis film shot as a harrowing adventure—it may not be particularly rewarding but it is a very good entry point for casual moviegoers hoping to better understand the journeys these desperate people take to reach Europe.
Although a tad plodding in its early stretches, this new Godzilla film combines thrilling spectacle with a grounding in narrative storytelling, as it psychoanalyses and indicts Japanese wartime militarism in hopes of a pacifist change in mentality.
Eternality Tan 