Films Reviews

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais

A mysterious film that redefines the intimacies of visual storytelling. Hiroshima Mon Amour is the first time a film has had a deep...

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) - Abdellatif Kechiche

There’s stillness in being true to oneself. To hold on to an identity, rough around the edges, but always ensconced in a shifting state....

At Eternity’s Gate (2018) - Julian Schnabel

Out of everything life gives us - the possibilities, relationships, uncertainties - what stays is the unconditional pursuit of passion,...

Midsommar (2019) - Ari Aster

The most dreadful aspects of a horror film: the creepiness of silence, the drag of darkness, and the vastness of space as if one is left...

Incendies (2010) - Denis Villeneuve

What is life, in contrast to never having one, when the living of it, in all its time-bound realms, is excused as fate? The word...

Roma (2018) - Alfonso Cuaron

It’s fracturable enough to feel emotions. The tide of which unravels slowly until a deep sense of grief envelops us. Now imagine what it...

Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Roman Polanski

The point of this film is not to scare you. Nor is it to make you afraid of the dark. Rosemary’s Baby has a much deeper influence than...

The Hateful Eight (2015) - Quentin Tarantino

A bold and cruel movie, The Hateful Eight comes off as unhinged and even provocative. Quentin makes a conscious effort to show it just as...

Irreversible (2003) - Gaspar Noe

By refusing to follow through in a chronological format, Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible deflects one’s perspective on violence, sex, and crime...

Spirited Away (2002) - Hayao Miyazaki

Spirited Away is considered as Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus. It strips quintessential animated films of its emphatically exaggerated...