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Tony Rayns

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The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% “Lee directs with great brio, making smart use of locations and settings.” – Sight & Sound Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 47% “Just when the film appears irretrievably stuck in a morass of explications and local colour, though, it escalates into its action phase and takes on something of the energy and character of the genre it discusses.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% “Hard-Boiled is actually Woo's most relaxed and confident film so far, and in many ways a terrific achievement. It offers nothing much new in plot terms... but its details and incidentals are gleefully idiosyncratic.” – Sight & Sound Jul 27, 2023 Full Review Labyrinth of Cinema (2019) 93% “Obayashi Nobuhiko's three-hour swansong is a pop-art paean to pacifism and unity in the form of an exploration of Japanese film history and, in particular, its many depictions of armed conflict.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Neighboring Sounds (2012) 91% “It could be the best 'noises-off' movie since Bong Joonho's debut feature Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), which it in some ways resembles.” – Sight & Sound Nov 3, 2020 Full Review The Garden (1990) 100% “Touching, intense, sometimes unexpectedly amusing, sometimes agonising, and always achingly sincere.” – Time Out May 27, 2020 Full Review Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 100% “Like Rainer Werner Fassbinder's other recent imitations of life, Fear Eats the Soul... achieves a remarkable balance between stylisation and realism.” – Sight & Sound Apr 1, 2020 Full Review Payday (1973) 63% “Such consistent recourse to convention is especially sad to see in a first feature.” – Sight & Sound Mar 27, 2020 Full Review Avanti! (1972) 79% “The audience is literally distanced from the action while at the same time encouraged to identify with it, which gives the whole exposition an almost diagrammatic quality.” – Sight & Sound Mar 20, 2020 Full Review Charley Varrick (1973) 81% “The film, like Walter Matthau's lead performance, becomes more good-naturedly humorous as it proceeds, and marks something of a return for Siegel to the liberal softie he used to be.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Dementia (1955) 75% “The movie spends an hour exploring a lonely woman's sexual paranoia through a torrent of expressionist distortions which would look avant-garde if the vulgar Freudian 'message' weren't so reminiscent of '50s B features.” – Time Out Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Darling (1965) 72% “Excruciatingly embarrassing at the time, it now looks grotesquely pretentious and pathetically out of touch with the realities of the life-styles that it purports to represent.” – Time Out Feb 27, 2020 Full Review The Innocent (1976) 79% “The film resolves itself into an almost painfully sincere meditation on masculine self-delusion. It has a great performance from Laura Antonelli as the wife, and excellent ones from Giannini and Jennifer O'Neill as husband and lover.” – Time Out Feb 14, 2020 Full Review Burning (2018) 95% “Burning is primarily about the novelistic imagination, but Jongsu's story also coalesces the mood of uncertainty that has been visible in the Korean left during the ultra-rightwing presidencies of Lee Myungbak and Park Geunhye.” – Sight & Sound Jan 31, 2019 Full Review An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) 94% “What makes Elephant exceptional is Hu Bo's piercing sensitivity to private doubts and anxieties, and his ability to make them visible on the faces of his complex, credible characters.” – Sight & Sound Dec 15, 2018 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% “This is a movie in which the political is personal: what separates Wiktor and Zula is less the Iron Curtain than an intractable cold war of the heart.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2018 Full Review The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965) “An art-cinema landmark... There's no doubt that it's partly a brilliant directorial sleight-of-hand.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) 74% “Inevitably, this is tricked out with Moore's all-too-familiar stunts... all of them subject to the (capitalist?) law of diminishing returns.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Wonderful Town (2007) 87% “Demonstrates that it's still entirely possible to make a movie outside the framework of pop genre cinema that is engrossing, moving and, in its unassertive way, quietly entertaining.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Breathless (2009) 83% “As hard-boiled tales of moral redemption go, Breathless is a right knuckle-duster.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Into the Abyss (2011) 92% “Into the Abyss is not just a compelling documentary about a convicted murderer on Death Row, but a further chapter in Werner Herzog's obsessive exploration of the American way of life - and death.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Faust (2011) 66% “Surviving 139 minutes of this barrage of profuse but elusive imagery and sound is something of an ordeal.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Like Someone in Love (2012) 83% “The one thing that's for sure is that this masterly filmmaker is sufficiently open-minded to work wherever he chooses without compromising the integrity of his questions.” – Sight & Sound Apr 4, 2018 Full Review Endless Poetry (2016) 94% “Most of the film is as shallow and silly as it sounds, but it's rarely boring and it generally looks quite vibrant.” – Sight & Sound Jan 10, 2017 Full Review The Hands of Orlac (1924) 91% “Its most enduring quality is Veidt's tormented performance as Orlac.” – Time Out Oct 17, 2016 Full Review
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