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2,000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Distant (2002)

January 19, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Palestine 36 (2025)

January 12, 2026January 12, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Golden Globes 2026 Prediction

January 11, 2026January 12, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Ikiru (1952)

January 4, 2026January 12, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #18: Alice Rohrwacher

December 29, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Blue Moon (2025)

December 27, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Love (2024)

December 15, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Interview: Guerrilla Metropolitana’s The Benefactress (2025)

December 10, 2025 by Eternality Tan

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July 31, 2023March 11, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Oppenheimer (2023)

  • Nolan, Christopher
  • 2023, Christopher Nolan, UK, USA
  • 16 Comments

This could be Nolanโ€™s greatest achievement so farโ€”a stunning biopic imagined as a complex, time-ticking paranoia thriller as the sheer burden of scientific progress meets the retroactive traumatic weight of 20th-century history.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 6, 2023September 12, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Drift (2023)

  • Chen, Anthony
  • 2023, Anthony Chen, France, Greece, UK
  • 1 Comment

Chenโ€™s third feature, shot in picturesque Greece with Cynthia Erivo, mostly works as a finely-drawn take on an unlikely friendship between a woman who fled her war-torn country and a somewhat passionless tour guide.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

  • Strickland, Peter
  • 2012, Peter Strickland, UK
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Strickland explores sound in film in tantalising new ways in this modern cult psychological horror about a British sound engineer hired to work on Italian giallo, who discovers something sinister behind-the-scenes.ย ย ย ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Howards End (1992)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1992, UK
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It may seem formal and stately in its visual and narrative posturing, but this splendid Merchant-Ivory production achieves a rare sense of intimacy and grace as it tells a story of connections and consternations across different social classes.ย ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 28, 2023July 7, 2024 by Eternality Tan

45 Years (2015)

  • Criterion Collection, Haigh, Andrew
  • 2015, Andrew Haigh, UK
  • 1 Comment

An excellent Charlotte Rampling plays one half of a couple who have been together for more than four decades as they face a marital crisis that might prove to be insurmountable in Haighโ€™s delicate take on the meaning of love as refracted by secrets from the distant past. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 17, 2023February 19, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Banshees of Inisherin, The (2022)

  • McDonagh, Martin
  • 2022, Ireland, Martin McDonagh, UK
  • 4 Comments

One man doesnโ€™t want to be friends with another man anymore in McDonaghโ€™s beautifully-shot and darkly humourous film that boasts a sharp script and even sharper acting by the wonderful cast.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Unrelated (2007)

  • Hogg, Joanna
  • 2007, Joanna Hogg, UK
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Hoggโ€™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 friendโ€™s family for a vacation in Tuscany.ย 

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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 Hitchcockโ€™s first โ€˜talkieโ€™, this curious early work of murder and intimidation could have been sharper if it had been shorter and tauter.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 25, 2022April 7, 2023 by Eternality Tan

While We Watched (2022)

  • Others
  • 2022, Documentary, India, UK
  • 1 Comment

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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