Romance at its best is less about happy endings than about the ache of longing, the film holding you in suspense over whether two people will ever close the distance between them. From the bittersweet workplace yearning of The Apartment to the lush, dangerous desire of The Handmaiden, the genre rewards directors brave enough to let feeling do the heavy lifting. See what Macca made of these and more below.
Rating: 3.5★
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name arrived in 2017 as one of the most talked-about films of that awards season, and it has barely been out of the conversation since. Based on André Aciman's 2007 novel of the same name, the story is set
Rating: 3.5★
There are certain films that arrive at precisely the right moment, catching a cultural mood and refusing to let go. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released in the year 2000 and directed by Ang Lee, was very much one of those films. Drawing on the wuxia tradition, a genre with deep
Rating: 3.0★
By the early 1950s, Hollywood was, in most respects, still a man's world behind the camera. The major studios employed armies of contract directors, and women were conspicuously absent from that roster. Ida Lupino was the exception. Already a well-established actress by that point, she had turned
Rating: 3.0★
Filipino cinema has long had a comfortable relationship with the romantic drama, producing films that wear their emotions openly and tend to prioritise feeling over formal ambition. I'm Drunk, I Love You, released in 2017, sits squarely within that tradition. The premise is a familiar one: two college
Rating: 2.5★
By 1928, Buster Keaton had spent the better part of a decade building one of the most remarkable bodies of work in American cinema. Films like The General and Sherlock Jr. had established him not merely as a popular comedian but as a genuinely inventive filmmaker, someone who understood the
Rating: 3.5★
The figure of Yuki-onna, the snow woman of Japanese folklore, has haunted the country's storytelling tradition for centuries. She appears in woodblock prints, Noh theatre, and countless regional variants of the same essential myth: a female spirit of the winter mountains, beautiful, lethal, and possessed of a
Genre Drama
★★★★ — The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre Adventure
★★½ — The Eagle (1925)
Genre Action
★★★½ — The General (1926)
Genre Drama
★★½ — The Docks of New York (1928)
Genre Drama
★½ — A Throw of Dice (1929)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Safety Last! (1923)
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