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Spirited Away (2002) - Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away is considered as Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus. It strips quintessential animated films of its emphatically exaggerated...
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Hereditary (2018) - Ari Aster
The scope of Hereditary is much deeper and coarser than what you might assume within the horror genre. The film evokes an emotional and...
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The tide of loneliness is a personal one. Its fabric is shrouded in a sort of reverie that floats over the horizon like a mirage. Only...
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Frances Ha (2013) – Noah Baumbach
A poignant film about choice and the sum of one’s microscopic dealings with life. Frances Ha is what leads to up your grandest moments in...
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Moonlight (2016) - Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight guards the fragility of what it shows to be a man. It gains most of its sentiment and volition in the way it’s...
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Chungking Express (1996) - Wong Kar-Wai
A melancholic film that is comfortable within its own set of rules, Chungking Express is silence suffused with expression. The film is...
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The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
A film intricately shot, as the life of Veronica, and then the life of Veronique, is reflected back and forth in a dreamlike and hypnotic...
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick
Eyes Wide Shut forces you to imagine the unimaginable and allows such foreplay to solidify into ripples that often disturb a still...
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The Master (2012) - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Master is one such film that I’d love to deconstruct over and over again to watch it from different perspectives. The film reiterates...
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The 400 Blows (1959) - Francois Truffaut
Watching Jean-Pierre Leaud as a young boy trapped between his defining moments with a friend and his duty as a son to detached and bleary...
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May 7, 20221 min read
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