Exposure
Welcome to NTU Film Society’s in-house publication.
Reviews of works, especially positive, that help an audience regard the film deeper.
Op-eds or dissenting pieces that provide something different from the mainstream.
Reviews, criticisms or pieces that view the art through a new, specific or varied lens.
Essays that delve deeper into the theoretical aspects of film, often academic in nature.
SGIFF Review: Don’t You Let Me Go (2024)
Guest Writer Khushi Pai navigates a refreshing intimacy in Don’t You Let Me Go (2024).
SGIFF Review: Cu Li Never Cries (2024)
In the monochrome heart of Hanoi, a bereaved woman redefines home, family, and enduring bonds in a poignant exploration of identity and belonging. Staff Writer Tan Yan An reflects on the critical Cu Li Never Cries.
SGIFF Review: The Killers (2024)
The Killers (2024) attempts an anthology of genre-whirling stories, but ultimately disappoints in its lack of maximising its potential, President Daryl Cheong writes.
SGIFF Review: Stranger Eyes (2024)
Yeo Siew Hua’s newest feature film, Stranger Eyes, is as audacious and ambitious as the 35th Singapore International Film Festival, President Daryl Cheong writes.
SGIFF Film Review: Tótem
Content Creator Goh Cheng Hao reviews Lila Avilés’ film Totem (2023) which explores the plurality of illness through a child’s point of view.
SGIFF Film Review: Tedious Days and Nights
Content Creator Phyllis Chan writes a moving and powerful rumination on the Chinese docudrama Tedious Days and Nights, which exposes the current lives of former poet-activists in Mainland China.
SGIFF Film Review: Poor Things
Editor-in-Chief Rhea Chalak reviews a film with a lot of buzz surrounding it, especially in the Western film circuit: Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest black comedy Poor Things (2023).
SGIFF Film Review: Buddha Mountain
Editor-in-Chief Rhea Chalak reviews Chinese-language film Buddha Mountain (2010), directed by Li Yu and starring Fan Bing Bing.
SGIFF Film Review: The Parade
Content Creator Phyllis Chan reviews Ryan Benjamin Lee’s The Parade, an animated short that explores the intricacies of politics and individuality.
SGIFF Film Review: The River That Never Ends
Content Creator Phyllis Chan reviews JT Trinidad’s short film the river that never ends (2022).
SGIFF Film Review: Evil Does Not Exist
Vice-President Fidel Tan reviews Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist (2023), following the themes of capitalist greed and gentrification in conflict with nature.
SGIFF Film Review: La Chimera
Content Creator Phyllis Chan reviews Alice Rohrwacher’s 2023 drama film, starring Josh O’Connor as a crumpled English archaeologist-turned-grave-robber.