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Aaron Yap

Aaron Yap's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Past Lives (2023) 95% EDIT “It’s quite the remarkable first film for Song, who brings a tender, elegant economy to her storytelling that doesn’t quite prepare you for how much it’ll wipe you out at the closing stretch. This one aches really good, folks. I can’t shake it.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Hatching (2022) 93% EDIT “Hatching hits its stride, shifting into a full-blown nightmare piece that plays like the missing link between E.T., Cronenberg’s The Fly, and Turning Red.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 1, 2022 Full Review Bleed with Me (2020) 83% EDIT “Tight, skillfully restrained, and oozing the palpable chill of a scalpel against the naked skin.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Aug 13, 2021 Full Review First Cow (2019) 96% EDIT “A kind vision of a frontier dream that elegantly addresses class imbalance and the corrupting influence of colonialism and greed with wry, subtle humour and genuine empathy for its characters.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 27, 2021 Full Review Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (2019) 40% EDIT “Perhaps this is just another shameless cash-in, rarely hitting the stunning highs of its predecessors. But sometimes I'm just thirsty for 83 minutes of thumping Wing Chun fistwork.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Nov 23, 2020 Full Review Mulan (2020) 72% 3/5 EDIT “It's exactly what you'd imagine a Mouse House wu xia pic might be: turning up to the party as handsomely crafted as money can buy, but lacking the innate poetic grace and artistry of a King Hu or Zhang Yimou epic.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 11, 2020 Full Review Unhinged (2020) 49% 3/5 EDIT “Here's us thirsting for the escapist, high-concept wonders of Tenet, but being handed a sweaty, beefy Russell Crowe going apeshit in a ninety-minute hissy fit of murder and mayhem. This will never not be funny to me.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 29, 2020 Full Review The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019) 66% 2/5 EDIT “A bit of a middle-of-the-road fizzer, neither compelling as a cynical critique of the modern art world nor the twisty, seductive neo-noir it's striving to be.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 5, 2020 Full Review Bait (2019) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Bait can be disorienting, disjointed, and deliberately alien in the moment. But its homespun imperfections do stay with you after it's all over.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 22, 2020 Full Review The Platform (2019) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Casts a stark light on all those socio-political triggers we're processing on a daily basis now more than ever: panic-driven consumption, individualism-versus-collectivism, the wealth divide.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 22, 2020 Full Review Girl on the Third Floor (2019) 81% 2/5 EDIT “A noble but frustratingly uneven attempt to revitalise stale haunted house conventions with pressing social currency.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 23, 2020 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The Lighthouse is, at its squirmy core, one of the most uniquely deranged buddy movies to come out in quite some time.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 17, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% 4/5 EDIT “There's a strain of knowing wistfulness threaded throughout Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, a 210-minute crime colossus that, for all intents and purposes, accomplishes the cumulative emotional high of a swan song.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Nov 24, 2019 Full Review Midsommar (2019) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Enhanced by some pointedly weird and gorgeous production design, Midsommar's meandering descent into crazy town makes for a deftly disturbing viewing experience for at least two-thirds.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 18, 2019 Full Review Rambo: Last Blood (2019) 26% 3/5 EDIT “Between Stallone mumbling stuff like "I'm full of rage" and "Death is coming" in a perennially granite scowl, shit gets ridiculously barbaric.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 17, 2019 Full Review The Farewell (2019) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Lulu Wang's semi-autobiographical indie charmer The Farewell cuts deep and close to home.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 4, 2019 Full Review Crawl (2019) 84% 4/5 EDIT “You want big alligators attacking people? You'll definitely get big alligators attacking the sh-t out of people.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 10, 2019 Full Review Child's Play (2019) 64% 3/5 EDIT “Call it Charlie Brooker's Small Soldiers.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jun 19, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Even if the film doesn't hang together in the moment as tightly as one might prefer, it fires up our synapses in the aftermath.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) May 6, 2019 Full Review The Curse of La Llorona (2019) 26% 1/5 EDIT “The Curse of the Weeping Woman might be my last excursion into the non-James-Wan-directed reaches of so-called The Conjuring Universe.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 17, 2019 Full Review The House That Jack Built (2018) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Haters gonna hate, and von Trier gonna von Trier as hard as he can. That should give you some gauge as to whether you should bail from The House That Jack Built right now.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 31, 2019 Full Review The Price of Everything (2018) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Director Nathaniel Kahn approaches the subject from an open, genuinely curious, rather than sneeringly critical, place.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 6, 2019 Full Review If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 95% 5/5 EDIT “The formal elegance on display fills, and sometimes overwhelms, the heart.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Mar 3, 2019 Full Review The Guilty (2018) 98% 4/5 EDIT “It's an 88-minute how-to in making something as exciting as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three within the limitations of a broom closet.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2019 Full Review Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) 74% 4/5 EDIT “This mind-boggling, aggravating account of child kidnapping compresses an entire season's supply of bizarre, shocking twists into ninety minutes...” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 31, 2019 Full Review
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