Linklater’s breakthrough indie has the kind of anarchic energy that still feels relevant today, capturing America at the crossroads of stagnation and progress, as his camera roams from one character to another like a stream of consciousness.
Tightly structured, verbose and eschewing high-stakes action, Soderbergh’s deceptively genial chess game of a spy thriller conflates the professional and the personal as one half of a married couple working for the same intelligence agency is suspected of being treasonous.
Aster reinvents his wheel of perverse creativity with this epic three-hour odyssey as a man (Joaquin Phoenix in a fantastic performance) suffering from chronic anxiety and the inability to take responsibility embarks on a Freudian journey of self-confrontation.
A free-form experiment that sees the filmmaker putting together a feature out of decades of behind-the-scenes footage from around the world—its fragmented moments of joy, anger, trauma and empathy reveal a common humanity even as they refuse to mark time and its deconstruction.
A visceral and elemental tale of survival and revenge by Team Inarritu-Lubezki, fronted by a physical, tour-de-force performance by DiCaprio.
Bong’s latest may lack a distinct thematic through-train and the plot occasionally wobbles along, but its mix of sardonic wit and fun sci-fi action should please most audiences as an expendable man is sent on suicidal scouting missions and ‘reprinted’ back again.
With the superb pounding drum score, and terrific performances by the cast, this latest effort by Mexican hotshot Inarritu is one of the most entertaining films of the year.
Nothing special from a storytelling standpoint, but its tick-the-boxes sincerity gives this Bob Dylan biopic the necessary foundation for a trio of exceptional Oscar-nominated performances from Timothee Chalamet, Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton.
An atypical Hollywood bank robbery thriller by Spike Lee, as a criminal group executes a perfect heist in the watchful eyes of the police in this compelling piece headlined by Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
Collaboration and exploitation are two sides of the same coin in this ambitious epic-cum-morality tale about the promise and rottenness of the American Dream, from the perspective of a Hungarian-Jewish architect who tries to build a life of dignity in the States.
Eternality Tan 