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Reviews

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  When the Waves Are Gone 2022

  

  RasmusS ★★★

  My first Lav Diaz movie wasn’t the immersive experience I had hoped partly because I was tired from last night. It complicated my getting into this movie and not because…

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  The Elephant Whisperers 2022

  

  Ben Daniels ★★★★★

  I challenge you to find another short documentary so effortlessly beautiful, so concisely told, and so genuinely inspirational.

  The Elephant Whisperers is not afraid to slyly tug at our emotions,…

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  Joyland 2022

  

  RiaOnFilms ★★★½

  My expectations from Pakistani cinema is high, especially after Ali Abbasi's work: Cake and Churails are both my hard-core favourites. And therefore I did take some of my bias along…

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  Heat 1963

  

  Emma Fogarty

  Larisa Shepitko directs and 80 minute drama about a boy sent to rural Kazakhstan for work purposes, he however does not get along with his hardscrabbler boss.

  Of all the…

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  Bashing 2005

  

  HanTheCan ★★★½

  Silence, eyes watching, people working, you can feel the hostility and the tension, and then society lets out its frustrations and anger. This is Bashing (2005) a breaking down of…

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  Hamlet 1948

  

  Richmond_Hill ★★★★½

  Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age was marked by silky commercialism. But probably as a riposte to concurrent accusations of sensationalism - or fig-leaf award season fodder - it also saw studios…

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  A City of Sadness 1989

  

  RiaOnFilms 4

  Gently lures you into the eerie quite of the sleeping beast's belly; swiftly lifts the curtain to let you take a peek at the brutal violence hitherto kept outside the…

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  The End of the Track 1970

  

  SATHWIK ★★★★

  A middle-class boy, Hsiao-Tung is best friends with Yung-Sheng whose parents operate a small noodle cart. Despite the class disparity between them, the boys are inseparable spending their time skinny-dipping…