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  As You Were 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2023

  Meditative yet at times tonally dissonant, Liao’s work about the shifting temporalities of identity and memory is ultimately elusive.

  Review - wp.me/pat7iE-5mQ

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2023

  It may be ambitious and sprawling to a fault, but Chazelle’s bravura direction and the top performances all-round keep this largely fictional tale of ‘20s and ‘30s Hollywood brimming with infectious energy.

  Review - wp.me/pat7iE-5mx

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jun 2019

  Although Bong Joon-ho has made more formidable pictures, this razor-sharp treatise on social class differences in South Korea shocks and entertains in equal measure.

  Full review: wp.me/pat7iE-KH

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jul 2022

  Park’s latest Cannes winner charts an alluringly new direction for him—a layered if at times convoluted crime procedural that hides an elusive romantic drama about the perverse relationship between a conflicted investigator and a seductive murder suspect.

  Review - wp.me/pat7iE-4Tx