Film reviews in alphabetical order

Every film I’ve written about, listed in alphabetical order.
A ♦ B  C ♦ D  E ♦ F ♦ G ♦ H ♦ I ♦ J ♦ K ♦ L ♦ M ♦ N ♦ O ♦ P ♦ Q ♦ R ♦ S T  U V W X Y Z

To see them listed chronologically and by geographical region, see here.


Abhijan (Satyajit Ray, 1962)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
Aferim! (Radu Jude, 2016)
The Age of Success (Jang Sun-woo, 1988)
Aimless Bullet (Yu Hyun-mok, 1961)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930)
All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018)
Antoine et Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2016) 
Araby (João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa, 2017)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)


Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
The Ballad of Tara (Bahram Beyzai, 1979)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012)
Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis, 2015)

Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan, 2014)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2014)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
Blind Shaft (Li Yang, 2003)
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet, 2013)
Body and Soul (Robert Rosssen, 1947)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983)
BPM (Robin Campillo, 2017)
Brick and Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1965)
Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947)
Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)


Caesar Must Die (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 2012)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003)
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont, 2013)

Camp de Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembène, 1988)
Champion (Mark Robson, 1949)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
The Coachman (Kang Dae-jin, 1961)
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)
The Congress (Ari Folman, 2013)
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, 1959)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)

The Cruel Sea (Khalid Al-Siddiq, 1972)
The Cycle (Dariush Mehrjui, 1978)


Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, 1930)
A Day Off (Lee Man-hee, 1968)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1979)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)
Declaration of Fools (Lee Jang-ho, 1983)
The Demons (Philippe Lesage, 2015)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
Die Tomorrow (Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2017)
Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray, 1973)
The Ditch (Wang Bing, 2010)
Dreamcatcher (Kim Longinotto, 2015)
Driftwood (Allan Dwan, 1947)
The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, 1972)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986)


Eden (Mia Hansen-Love, 2014)
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2016)
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987)
En Guerre (Stéphane Brizé, 2018)

Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004)


The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1971)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
The Friends (Shinji Somai, 1994)


Genesis (Philippe Lesage, 2018)
A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa, 2017)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Gheisar (Masud Kimiai, 1969)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947)

The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934)
Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)
Goodbye, South Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1995)
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, 2016)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)
The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, 2017)


The Halt (Sergei Loznitsa, 2000)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Happy End (Michael Haneke, 2017)
Her (Spike Jonze 2013)

The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
The Holy Man (Satyajit Ray, 1965)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel, 2015)
A Hometown of the Heart (Yun Yong-gyu, 1949)

The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962)
The Houses are Full of Smoke (Allan Francovich, 1987)


I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
I Love Beijing (Ning Ying, 2000)
Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1973)
In Our Time (Various directors, 1982)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2013)
In the Fog (Sergei Loznitsa, 2012)
It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer, 1947)
I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011)


Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955)
Les jeux sont faits (Jean Delannoy, 1947)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich, 2013)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990)


The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)


Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)
The Land (Youssef Chahine, 1969)
A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018)
The Last Flight (William Dieterle, 1931)
The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977)
The Leopard (Nabil Maleh, 1972)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Life on a String (Chen Kaige, 1991)
Locke (Steven Knight, 2013)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015)
Love is Strange (Ira Sachs, 2014)
Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi, 1973)


Manakamana (Stephanie Spray, Pacho Valez, 2014)
Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène, 1968)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
Mank (David Fincher, 2020)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955)
The Man Without a Map (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1968)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Mouly Surya, 2017)
Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Me and You (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2012)
The Measure of a Man (Stéphane Brizé, 2015)
Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti, 2015)
Michael H – Profession: Director (Yves Montmayeur, 2013)
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
Milou en Mai (Louis Malle, 1990)

The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)
The Mongols (Parmiz Kimiavi, 1973)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger, 1947)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)


The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
Neruda (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
The Night it Rained (Kamran Shirdel, 1967)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947)
No (Pablo Larraín, 2012)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
North Korean Partisan in South Korea (Chung Ji-young, 1990)
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971)
November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017)


Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947)
Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017)
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)
The One and the Eight (Zhang Junzhao, 1983)
One Cut of the Dead (Shinichirou Ueda, 2018)
One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa, 1947)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu, 1936)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)
Our Children (Joachim Lafosse, 2012)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)


Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 1977)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999)
Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
Profondo Rosso (Dario Argento, 1975)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993)


Quai des orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947)
The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)


Railroad of Hope (Ning Ying, 2002)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
Ray and Liz (Richard Billingham, 2018)
Reality (Matteo Garrone, 2012)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1987)
Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller, 1957)


The Sandwich Man (Various directors, 1983)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise, 1949)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2018)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016)
A Single Spark (Park Kwang-su, 1995)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, 2016)

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2014)
Song of the Exile (Ann Hui, 1990)
Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 1974)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
The Structure of Crystal (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1969)
Summer 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017)
A Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1984)
Sunset (László Nemes, 2018)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018)
Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton, 1968)
The Surrogate Woman (Im Kwon-taek, 1987)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017)


Tangsir (Amir Naderi, 1973)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947)

Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige, 1996)
Theeb (Naji Abu-Nowar, 2014)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947)
A Thousand and One Hands (Souheil Ben-Barka, 1972)
Three Faces (Jafar Panahi, 2018)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1947)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín, 2008)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014)


The Untamed (Amat Escalante, 2016)
The Upturned Glass (Lawrence Huntington, 1947)


Violette (Martin Provost, 2013)


Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson, 2013)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
Westfront 1918 (G. W. Pabst, 1930)
When the Tenth Month Comes (Đặng Nhật Minh, 1984)
Where is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
White Elephant (Pablo Trapero, 2012)
White God (Kornel Mundruczó, 2014)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan, 2019)
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron, 2014)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
Witchhammer (Otakar Vávra, 1970)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Woman of Fire (Kim Ki-young, 1971)
Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard, 1932)
Woodpeckers Don’t Get Headaches (Dinara Asanova, 1975)
The Wound/Inxeba (John Trengove, 2017)


Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1997)


Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984)
The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck, 2017)


Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
Zorn’s Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)

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