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Master, The (2012)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a masterful exploration of two men that features amazing performances from everyone in the cast.

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War of the Arrows

Set after the second Manchu invasion of the country, War of Arrows follows a skilled archer who must rescue his sister when she’s taken by the Qing army.

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Warrior (2011)

Warrior stands out strongly because it succeeds at respecting the mixed martial arts sport and telling a good story at the same time.

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Oldboy (2003)

Dirty walls. A bed. A bathroom. A television. Meals that mysteriously appear three times a day. Complete and utter isolation. This is Oh Dae-su’s existence for 15 years.

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Elite Squad (2007)

There hasn’t been a recent take on contemporary society that doesn’t rely on metaphoric imagery in recent memory. Tropa de Elite and Tropa de Elite 2 have done so in an accessible way for regular movie-watching audiences.

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Simple Life, A (2011)

A Simple Life is a simple story about a man named Roger and the anything-but-simple relationship with the woman who has worked for his family for 60 years of her life, Tao Jie.

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Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn is the story… the view of Hemingway through the eyes of travel writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn. Their sporadic love/hate relationship through the years of historic turmoil and then some…