You don’t need to know much about legendary conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein to enjoy this decently made ‘love story’ biopic with standout performances by Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan.
Superbly-executed battle scenes aside, there is something vacant in Scott’s unflattering treatment of one of France’s most infamous historical figures.
An existential crisis plagues a professional hitman after a job gone wrong in Fincher’s serviceable genre exercise, shot in his trademark methodical style that mirrors his protagonist’s attention to process.
A charming delight as this Oscar-nominated live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid centers on the exploits and feelings of a talking mollusc shell who lives with his granny, shot as a self-aware ‘documentary’.
De Niro’s most wicked performance for a Scorsese picture, this is an incisively comical take on what happens when the determination to succeed in showbiz is taken to the extreme.
Brilliant performances by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon drive this lavishly-produced biopic on the famed pianist-entertainer Liberace.
Scorsese’s scathing work about the exploitation of the Osage tribe in the 1920s by conniving White men is both intimate and expansive at the same time, and so well-paced that it makes 3½ hours feel like only two.
Violent, intense, darkly comic and a tour de force experience, this is God-tier Scorsese and one of the greatest films about gangsters and organised crime ever made.
Tedious at times with an overbearing anti-Americanism, this was an experimental misstep by Antonioni who seemed to want to say a lot but achieved little in the process.
A confident debut feature as this poignant drama about two Korean childhood sweethearts who meet again as adults in New York will likely work the tearducts.
Eternality Tan 