A thorny family-in-crisis drama, Mungiuโs remarkable Cannes Palme dโOr winner throws questions of faith, parenthood, and social policy into the grinder, and taps into the pulse of what divides many people today, particularly the values we impose on others.
A bleak-as-hell meditation on gender identity and trauma, this Berlinale entry finds unexpected grace amid the spectre of the Thirty Yearsโ War, religious oppression and misogyny, with Sandra Hรผller delivering a virtuoso cross-gender performance.
Emotionally open yet somewhat thematically underwhelming, Chenโs sprawling conclusion to his โGrowing Upโ trilogy stops short of confronting the Singaporean class tensions lurking beneath its series of unfortunate events, but still ultimately finds quiet resonance in its characters.
A quietly devastating work, this Berlinale award-winner stuns and finds remarkable sensitivity in its treatment of sexual desire, dementia and love, elevated by immersive performances and riveting family dynamics.
A sobering and essential documentary from Sundance that offers ground-zero insight into Gazaโs hospitals through the eyes of three American doctorsโJewish, Palestinian, and Zoroastrianโwhile confronting the abject consequences of death, destruction, and state-sanctioned narratives.
Despite its conspicuous melodrama and emotional manipulation, this highly popular Teochew film transcends its shortcomings through the deeply resonating power of qiaopi, diaspora, and the enduring historical pull of Nanyang.
A transcendent, mosaic-like interpretation of an age-old myth, Nolanโs staggering spectacle finds new meaning in fragments of memory, imagination, and legendโan accessible epic whose audience extends well beyond self-declared Homerists.
Though bogged down by a talky and absurd screenplay that mechanises its ideas too rigidly into scene-to-scene plotting, this remains an interesting conspiracy thriller, where the outstanding technical craft and bigger thematic stakes help Spielberg make the landing somewhat stick.
A Lithuanian woman decides to divorce her husband the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in this realistic Sundance Directing Award winner that finds striking resonance in the collision between the personal and political, focusing on one (privileged) family in crisis.
A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.
