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As You Were (2014)

January 23, 2023January 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Babylon (2022)

January 21, 2023January 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)

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Sans Soleil (1983)

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Bellissima (1951)

January 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Martin Eden (2019)

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Glass Onion (2022)

January 11, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Golden Globes 2023 Prediction

January 9, 2023January 11, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Cure (1997)

January 8, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Subtraction (2022)

January 7, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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December 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Unrelated (2007)

  • Hogg, Joanna
  • 2007, Joanna Hogg, UK
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Hogg’s debut feature is an enriching experience, almost Rohmer-esque in its focus on the bourgeois and their conversations as a middle-aged British woman in an unhappy marriage joins a friend’s family for a vacation in Tuscany. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Blackmail (1929)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1929, Alfred Hitchcock, UK
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Shot largely like a silent film, yet it is also Hitchcock’s first ‘talkie’, this curious early work of murder and intimidation could have been sharper if it had been shorter and tauter. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

While We Watched (2022)

  • Others
  • 2022, Documentary, India, UK
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A brave broadcast journalist warns of widespread nationalistic propaganda on television news in this powerful indictment of the sorry state of media and hate politics in India.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 9, 2022November 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1949, UK
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Morally dubious yet perversely funny, this is one of the most outstanding black comedies produced by the Ealing Studios as one outsider with a royal lineage seeks to eliminate all that stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sexy Beast (2000)

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  • 2000, Jonathan Glazer, UK
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Glazer’s stylish feature debut is quite sensational—a hilariously tense showdown between a laidback Ray Winstone and a foul-mouthed Ben Kingsley, the latter hoping to recruit the former, a ‘retired’ safecracker, for a final heist.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Caravaggio (1986)

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  • 1986, UK
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The great 17th-century Italian painter is given the screen treatment in Jarman’s idiosyncratic, if at times anachronistic, deconstruction of a brilliant but tormented figure, featuring an indelible supporting performance by Tilda Swinton in her acting debut.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 31, 2022November 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Aftersun (2022)

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  • 2022, UK
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This is one of 2022’s finest films and an extraordinary feature debut—as far as stories about father-daughter relationships are concerned, this incredibly nuanced drama finds that rare pitch-perfect tone of joy and melancholy that must be savoured. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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August 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Peeping Tom (1960)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael
  • 1960, Michael Powell, UK
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The picture that destroyed Powell’s career, this disturbing work about a serial killer who perversely films his victims as they die is now regarded as a major influence on the modern slasher movie, and a provocative exploration of the ills of scopophilia. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Matchstick Men (2003)

  • Scott, Ridley
  • 2003, Ridley Scott, UK, USA
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Ridley Scott directs a rare crime-comedy in this sentimental flick starring an underrated Nicolas Cage as a germophobic con artist who must contend with the unexpected appearance of his long-lost daughter. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Small Back Room, The (1949)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1949, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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An explosives expert must fight a personal battle with alcoholism in this minor WWII effort from Powell and Pressburger, which features one of the most suspenseful bomb disarmament scenes in early black-and-white cinema.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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