Arthouse Reviews

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
The Missing Gun (2002)	Superlative cinema	2024-01-14	Simon
The Idiots (1998)	Not just empty provocation	2023-12-18	Simon
Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone (2000)	Not quite as topical as it once was, but still exceptional	2022-06-24	Simon
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)	Absurd and poetic	2022-06-07	Simon
Pain and Glory (2019)	Clearly Almodóvar's most personal film	2022-04-28	Simon
The Red Squirrel (1993)	One of the films that got me interested in cinema	2022-02-16	Simon
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)	Beautiful and harrowing	2021-08-08	Simon
Suzhou River (2000)	Drifting along	2021-08-03	Simon
Last Life in the Universe (2003)	A more conventionally arthouse film than the director's earlier work	2021-06-27	Simon
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)	Super stylish and metaphorically rich	2021-06-22	Simon
Lost And Found (1996)	Really quite moving	2021-06-13	Simon
Mother (2009)	No memories of murder	2021-05-31	Simon
Last Letter (2018)	Another gem from Shunji Iwai	2021-05-30	Simon
Castaway on the Moon (2009)	A beautiful piece of magical realism	2021-04-25	Simon
Miss Zombie (2013)	The PARASITE of zombie films	2021-04-10	Simon
Rage (2016)	...read review...	2020-11-01	Simon
Guilty of Romance (2011)	With women nothing is impossible	2020-09-22	Simon
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)	Sion Sono doing his best Takashi Miike impression	2020-09-14	Simon
Helter Skelter (2012)	It's certainly convenient to be pretty	2020-08-15	Simon
Hana and Alice (2004)	...read review...	2020-08-11	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Tokyo Fist (1995)	Peak Shinya Tsukamoto	2020-05-23	Simon
Fish Story (2009)	Can music save the world?	2013-05-03	Simon
Melancholia (2011)	A strangely beautiful film about being depressed	2012-11-29	Simon
Running On Karma (2003)	Repeat viewings mandatory	2012-10-12	Simon
MPD Psycho (2000)	Essential viewing for the Miike fan	2012-05-22	Simon
Face (Kao) (2000)	fascinating and unpredictable	2006-09-28	Simon
Hanging Garden (2005)	Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary	2006-02-09	Simon
Fallen Angels (1995)	Love it or hate it, but be sure to see it	2005-07-16	Simon
Kamikaze Taxi (1994)	A very quirky, contemplative film that is never predictable	2004-12-10	Simon