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.
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Birdman (2014)
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Complete Unknown, A (2024)
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.
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Inside Man (2006)
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.
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Brutalist, The (2024)
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.
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House by the River (1950)
A lesser effort by Lang as his Hitchcockian-lite crime noir sees a writer who had inadvertently killed his maid trying to implicate his brother in the covering up of the murder.
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Nosferatu (2024)
Eggers’ most commercial work has little to savour narratively, though it is backed by committed performances from Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard, and immersive world-building, as the filmmaker regresses somewhat into self-parody and overindulgence.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Lynch’s feature-length prequel to his ‘Twin Peaks’ series is a psychedelic head trip into the lower rungs of hell, backed by an extraordinary if unexpectedly emotional performance from Sheryl Lee, as the narrative traces the final days leading up to her character’s demise.
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Real Pain, A (2024)
Featuring an exceptional performance by Kieran Culkin, Eisenberg writes, produces, directs and stars in this unassuming comedy-drama that was shot primarily in Poland, about two incompatible Jewish cousins on a Holocaust tour to remember their late grandmother.
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Bound (1996)
This neo-noir thriller is a terrific feature debut by the Wachowskis, with its careening twists and turns, and upending of gender codes, as two women must work out a survival plan after an opportunistic ‘heist’ gone wrong.
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Fall, The (2006)
One of the most beautifully shot movies ever made, Tarsem Singh’s modern cult classic is an ‘elegiac epic’, an intertwining of two sets of narratives about the endless imagination and despair that the human mind can experience.
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Eternality Tan 