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2,000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Distant (2002)

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Palestine 36 (2025)

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Golden Globes 2026 Prediction

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Ikiru (1952)

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Exploring #18: Alice Rohrwacher

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Blue Moon (2025)

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Love in the Afternoon (1972)

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Love (2024)

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Interview: Guerrilla Metropolitana’s The Benefactress (2025)

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March 14, 2020September 16, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Sorry We Missed You (2019)

  • Loach, Ken
  • 2019, Ken Loach, UK
  • 3 Comments

Ken Loachโ€™s take on the perils and false hopes of the gig economy is at once heartbreaking and angry.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 12, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Bait (2019)

  • Others
  • 2019, UK
  • 2 Comments

Thereโ€™s something anachronistic about its visual style, but Mark Jenkinโ€™s modern 16mm experiment about social tensions in an English fishing village largely impresses with its extraordinary use of nearly all manner of montage.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

I, Daniel Blake (2016)

  • Criterion Collection, Loach, Ken
  • 2016, Ken Loach, UK
  • 3 Comments

A tremendously urgent social realist work with a strong emotional core, blessed by Loachโ€™s unadulterated approach to simplicity. ย 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Land and Freedom (1995)

  • Loach, Ken
  • 1995, Ken Loach, Spain, UK
  • 1 Comment

Loach tackles the Spanish Civil War with aplomb in this unique war film that is not about war itself but the battle of ideals and minds.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Kes (1970)

  • Criterion Collection, Loach, Ken
  • 1970, Ken Loach, UK
  • 3 Comments

Arguably Ken Loachโ€™s masterpiece of 1970s British working-class social realism, with an absolutely stunning performance by the 14-year old non-professional actor David Bradley.

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Rating: 4.5 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
  • 5 Comments

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 15, 2020May 1, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

  • Lean, David
  • 1957, David Lean, UK
  • 3 Comments

David Lean’s rousing action-adventure war spectacle remains to be one of his most rewatchable offerings.

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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
  • 1 Comment

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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