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.
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Blackmail (1929)
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While We Watched (2022)
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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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
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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Sexy Beast (2000)
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.
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Caravaggio (1986)
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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Aftersun (2022)
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.
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Peeping Tom (1960)
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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Matchstick Men (2003)
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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Small Back Room, The (1949)
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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Alien: Covenant (2017)
Scott’s follow-up to ‘Prometheus’ is a full-scale R-rated blockbuster that will thrill mainstream adult audiences, maybe even fans, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the sheer filmmaking prowess of the first two ‘Alien’ films.
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Eternality Tan 