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Knife + Heart (2018)

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Father, The (2020)

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Binding Sentiments (1969)

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Below Sea Level (2008)

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In a Lonely Place (1950)

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Girl, The (1968)

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March 28, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Mudbound (2017)

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  • 2017, Dee Rees, Netflix, USA
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The constant intercutting between two related storylines—that of a White and Black family living in Mississippi in the 1940s—seems to have spread its narrative more thinly than intended, but this is still a crucial look at the ills of racism.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Icarus (2017)

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  • 2017, Bryan Fogel, Documentary, Netflix, USA
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Even if you don’t give a hoot about the Olympics, this sensational Oscar-winning documentary about state-sanctioned sports doping in Russia is eye-opening and riveting. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 26, 2021March 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

News of the World (2020)

  • Greengrass, Paul
  • 2020, Netflix, Paul Greengrass, USA
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Tom Hanks and the wildly-talented Helena Zengel strike up an odd partnership and just about lift this standard-fare Western-esque drama set in the Civil War period into something akin to serviceable entertainment. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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November 29, 2020 by Eternality Tan

13th (2016)

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  • 2016, Ava DuVernay, Documentary, Netflix, USA
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It may sometimes feel too didactic, but this documentary about the proliferation of prisons in the US as set in the context of racial inequality has its moments of shocking power.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 5, 2020March 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Trial of the Chicago 7, The (2020)

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  • 2020, Aaron Sorkin, Netflix, USA
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Sorkin’s a reliable screenwriter but lacks an imaginative cinematic eye as a director, and it shows in this uneven, and at times, stilted dramatisation of a key case in 20th-century US legal history.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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October 18, 2020October 19, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Meyerowitz Stories, The (2017)

  • Baumbach, Noah
  • 2017, Netflix, Noah Baumbach, USA
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An eccentric extended family comes to terms with fraught and awkward relationships in this heartfelt comedy by Noah Baumbach.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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  • 2020, Charlie Kaufman, Netflix, USA
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It is as if Charlie Kaufman had reimagined ‘The Shining’ in a whole new dimension—this indescribably cerebral and atmospheric film, an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name, enthrals as much as it frustrates.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 11, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Forest of Love, The (2019)

  • Sono, Sion
  • 2019, Japan, Netflix, Sion Sono
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While it is a rather entertaining treatise on the extremes of power abuse, and contains the usual violent, sexual and immoral provocations that have characterised Sion Sono’s output, it ultimately doesn’t cut deep enough to be a rewarding experience.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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June 24, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Wasp Network (2019)

  • Assayas, Olivier
  • 2019, France, Netflix, Olivier Assayas, Spain
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Even a master filmmaker can misfire big time in this shallow and messy star-studded stab at telling the narrative of the infamous ‘Cuban Five’.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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June 13, 2020March 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

  • Lee, Spike
  • 2020, Netflix, Spike Lee, USA
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An interesting mess of ideas, genres and styles, Spike Lee’s lengthy new joint is effective when it is polemical, but the main message about how we could draw urgent relevancy from the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the painful lessons of the Vietnam War gets muddled in the film’s excesses.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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