Resurrection

Regularly, when I go into a movie that is a celebration of art/filmmaking, I walk out feeling unmoved. This, however, subverted all expectations. Within the first couple of minutes I’m witnessing a visual language and filmmaking techniques alike only to that of Brazil by Terry Gilliam, but, even that feels like too far of a reach. If you take in the craft that went into creating each incredibly diverse chapter of this film, you’ll feel the runtime breeze past you. It’s an epic in the heaviest sense of the word. Bi Gan celebrates you and the audience you experience this with for going along on this beautiful journey, crescendoing into one of the most touching endings I’ve been lucky enough to experience in a theater. It’s in a league of its own, especially in the landscape of films that released in 2025.