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Disclosure Day (2026)

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My Father’s Shadow (2025)

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Touki bouki (1973)

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To Singapore, with Love (2013)

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Last Metro, The (1980)

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Blade, The (1995)

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How to Divorce During the War (2026)

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Useful Ghost, A (2025)

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May 6, 2020October 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Feels Good Man (2020)

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  • 2020, Documentary, USA
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Pepe the Frog gets unceremoniously thrown into the US sociopolitical mixer in this insightful documentary about the pervasiveness of memes, perils of Internet culture and one manโ€™sโ€”creator Matt Furieโ€”angst toward all that is wrong with American society. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Edge of Democracy, The (2019)

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  • 2019, Brazil, Documentary, Petra Costa
  • 2 Comments

A largely engrossing crash course on how the current Brazilian political landscape, warts and all, came to be in this incisive Oscar-nominated documentary.  

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 10, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Uppercase Print (2020)

  • Jude, Radu
  • 2020, Documentary, Radu Jude, Romania
  • 1 Comment

Intercutting archival footage from state-controlled television with Brechtian style enactments, Radu Judeโ€™s indictment of 1980s Communist Romania will test the patience of even the most hardened experimental-arthouse cineaste. 

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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March 30, 2020October 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Talking About Trees (2019)

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  • 2019, Documentary, Sudan
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Cinema can be the raison d’รชtre for many of us, but this illuminating Sudanese documentary shows us that it can also be a marker of a lifetime of despair.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 6, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Hail Satan? (2019)

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  • 2019, Documentary, USA
  • 1 Comment

Provocative in an important way, this cautionary if hilariously satirical documentary emphasises the need to be open to understanding minority groups in pluralistic, secular countries.    

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 27, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Two Popes, The (2019)

  • Meirelles, Fernando
  • 2019, Documentary, Fernando Meirelles, UK
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Youโ€™ll be surprised that two religious old men chatting about their struggles with faith and their pasts can be so engrossing in Fernando Meirellesโ€™ breezy drama.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 23, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Diego Maradona (2019)

  • Kapadia, Asif
  • 2019, Asif Kapadia, Documentary, UK
  • 1 Comment

It should have a slightly wider appeal than just football fans in general, but this documentary isnโ€™t as spectacular as the genius at its center.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 17, 2020July 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Close-Up (1990)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1990, Abbas Kiarostami, Documentary, Iran
  • 9 Comments

A transcendent masterpiece that reveals intricate thematic complexities and showcases Kiarostami’s brilliance upon a closer and critical examination. 

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Amy (2015)

  • Kapadia, Asif
  • 2015, Asif Kapadia, Documentary, UK
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Kapadia’s follow up to ‘Senna’ is an intimate and at times disheartening look at the perils of celebrity, fame and their vices.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Senna (2010)

  • Kapadia, Asif
  • 2010, Asif Kapadia, Documentary, UK
  • 2 Comments

Brilliantly pieced together from raw footage, this documentary about the legendary F1 race driver Ayrton Senna is inspiring as it is tragic.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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