With virtuoso filmmaking on display, Ruizpalaciosโ mesmerising fourth feature creates explosive drama out of the inner workings of a busy F&B kitchen in Times Square.
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Cocina, La (2024)
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Room Next Door, The (2024)
Almodovarโs first English-language feature doesnโt quite strike gold, but Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore give riveting performances as two friends who havenโt seen each other for a long time, exploring themes of mortality and morality.
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Gladiator II (2024)
It may be mid-tier Ridley Scott with standard-fare storytelling, but this sequel is boosted by Denzel Washingtonโs scene-stealing supporting role and a gleefully gorier treatment of violent spectacle.
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Humans and bugs are out to exterminate each other in Verhoevenโs much-maligned โfascistโ blockbuster that has enjoyed a cult resurgence, with its nonchalance and irreverence towards the pleasures of gory violence and media brainwashing satirically relevant.
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Paris Is Burning (1990)
One of the most iconic queer-themed documentaries of all time sees several trans women, drag queens and voguers reveal their passion and desire to be recognised like any other normal human being as they search for a queer utopia in New Yorkโs Harlem.
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Anora (2024)
Bakerโs Cannes hit promises a volatile, anxiety-fest of a cinematic experience, pumped up by Mikey Madisonโs outstanding performance as a stripper who has a โfairytale marriageโ to the son of a Russian oligarch, though it doesnโt always work triumphantly in its latter half.
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Other Side, The (2015)
Minerviniโs work about the real America i.e. the disturbia of the working-class provokes with its sheer no-bullshit honesty, with an invisible camera that gives zero distinction between drama and documentary.
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Invisible Man, The (1933)
A cult horror classic from early 1930s Hollywood with visual effects work that remains mind-boggling today, as an experiment gone wrong causes an increasingly erratic scientist to become invisible and immensely powerful.ย
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Different Man, A (2024)
Themes of โidentityโ and โrole-playingโ swirl intensely in this decent offering starring the Berlinale award-winning Sebastian Stan, who plays a disfigured man who begins to morph into a normal-looking person after an experimental clinical trial.
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Megalopolis (2024)
With incredible abandon and ambition, Coppolaโs work, infused with Roman allegory, is staggering in terms of craft despite its rather clunky storytelling, as a time-controlling architect hopes to rebuild a new utopian city that is future-looking.
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