Inspired by Kiarostami’s ‘Taste of Cherry‘, this standout American indie about a young effervescent Senegalese taxi driver befriending a suicidal old man features two extraordinary, emotionally affecting performances from Souleymane Sy Savane and Red West.
The Oscar-winning directors of ‘Free Solo’ tackle with lucidity and suspense the incredible international rescue efforts of a group of Thai boys trapped deep in a flooded cave back in 2018.
Probably a stretch to say that this is Malick meets Marvel, but Chloe Zhao delivers something different—a slower-paced, exposition-heavy actioner about creationism, existence and the ties that bind superheroes to their humanity.
There’s both a sense of energy and listlessness to the filmmaking, with a story or two waiting to pop out, but that never materializes through the course of this sprawling, ambitious road movie.
Oscar Isaac headlines this low-key, slow-burn thriller about a poker player with a haunted past, directed with the minimum of fuss by Schrader.
There’s a case for this to be Malick’s opus – it may be slow-moving but will be rewarding for anyone willing to enter a personal journey with the director as he attempts to lift us into a spiritual realm of meaning and purpose.
This is an extraordinary documentary about an even more astonishing feat of mankind—the landing on the Moon in 1969—primarily using archival footage, some never seen before, as it details the still mind-boggling journey, one suspenseful step at a time.
Truth is the weakest currency in Ridley Scott’s generally solid stab at a Rashomon-esque historical epic set in medieval France during the Hundred Years’ War.
More educative than cinematic, Herzog’s documentary about technology, particularly the affordances and perils of the Internet, lacks the cutting-edge incisiveness of more well-developed treatises on the subject.
Certainly not one of Malick’s best, but this extraordinarily beautiful film—in its 172-minute extended cut—sees the director at his most lyrical and self-indulgent.
Eternality Tan 