Cu Li Never Cries
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Cu Li Never Cries

This contemplative Vietnamese drama unfolds as a meditation on memory, inheritance, and the spectral…

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Square format · Mood over meaning

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8 works · Image and text in conversation
The Naked Gun
Horror The Naked Gun

The resurrection of the Naked Gun franchise arrives as a knowing wink across decades of comedic evolution, positioning itself as both…

YEAR 2021 RUNTIME 97m RATING 67/100
Entity Within
Sci-Fi Entity Within

Set against the smog-tinged, sun-bleached suburban sprawl of mid-1970s Los Angeles, Entity Within excavates the psychological horror that…

YEAR 1980 RUNTIME 183m RATING 99/100
Mujercitas
Sci-Fi Mujercitas

Transplanting Louisa May Alcott's New England parlor rooms into the sun-drenched, politically turbulent landscape of 1970s Latin America,…

YEAR 1971 RUNTIME 141m RATING 92/100
Play Dirty
Noir Play Dirty

The heist film has long served as cinema's most elegant metaphor for the seductive logic of transgression, and Play Dirty plunges headlong…

YEAR 1962 RUNTIME 103m RATING 74/100
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Sci-Fi Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

The enduring fascination with Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective has produced a cinematic corpus so vast that any new addition must…

YEAR 1937 RUNTIME 131m RATING 88/100
Ein Prinz verliebt sich
Horror Ein Prinz verliebt sich

Conrad Wiene occupies a curious and largely neglected niche in the history of German-language cinema, perpetually overshadowed by the…

YEAR 1971 RUNTIME 161m RATING 86/100
The King's Warden
Action The King's Warden

The tradition of the Korean historical drama, or sageuk, has long served as a vessel for national self-examination, using the canvas of the…

YEAR 1938 RUNTIME 205m RATING 62/100
Blood Legend
Noir Blood Legend

The witch film occupies a singular position within the horror genre, tapping into ancient anxieties about female power, forbidden…

YEAR 1994 RUNTIME 122m RATING 64/100

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