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
A Peck On The Cheek (2002)	Powerful	2003-05-01	Simon
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)	Beautiful and harrowing	2021-08-08	Simon
Bird People Of China (1997)	Not necessarily a must-see movie, but undoubtedly worth seeing.	2003-02-01	Simon
Blue Spring (2001)	Beautiful	2002-03-17	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Bungee Jumping Of Their Own (2001)	Original and impressive	2003-06-28	Simon
Castaway on the Moon (2009)	A beautiful piece of magical realism	2021-04-25	Simon
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)	Absurd and poetic	2022-06-07	Simon
Face (Kao) (2000)	fascinating and unpredictable	2006-09-28	Simon
Fallen Angels (1995)	Love it or hate it, but be sure to see it	2005-07-16	Simon
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)	Super stylish and metaphorically rich	2021-06-22	Simon
Fish Story (2009)	Can music save the world?	2013-05-03	Simon
Gozu (2003)	Wonderful creativity	2004-06-05	Simon
Guilty of Romance (2011)	With women nothing is impossible	2020-09-22	Simon
Hana and Alice (2004)	...read review...	2020-08-11	Simon
Hanging Garden (2005)	Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary	2006-02-09	Simon
Helter Skelter (2012)	It's certainly convenient to be pretty	2020-08-15	Simon
Hero (2002)	Pretty special	2003-05-10	Simon
Jan Dara (2001)	Is tragic erotica a new genre?	2002-07-21	Simon
Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone (2000)	Not quite as topical as it once was, but still exceptional	2022-06-24	Simon
Kamikaze Taxi (1994)	A very quirky, contemplative film that is never predictable	2004-12-10	Simon
Last Letter (2018)	Another gem from Shunji Iwai	2021-05-30	Simon
Last Life in the Universe (2003)	A more conventionally arthouse film than the director's earlier work	2021-06-27	Simon
Lost And Found (1996)	Really quite moving	2021-06-13	Simon
Melancholia (2011)	A strangely beautiful film about being depressed	2012-11-29	Simon
Mifune (1999)	Another great story from the Dogme 95 movement	2002-06-04	Simon
Miss Zombie (2013)	The PARASITE of zombie films	2021-04-10	Simon
Mother (2009)	No memories of murder	2021-05-31	Simon
MPD Psycho (2000)	Essential viewing for the Miike fan	2012-05-22	Simon
Pain and Glory (2019)	Clearly Almodóvar's most personal film	2022-04-28	Simon