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3.5/5
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Gezhi Town
(2025)
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James Marsh
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By championing the heroism and sacrifices of ordinary civilians, and shifting focus away from patriotic rhetoric to intimate character dynamics, the film proves surprisingly entertaining.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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3/5
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Primate
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Fans of stripped-down, unmuzzled Friday-night bloodletting will have a grand old time, as Ben’s frenzied antics result in a procession of face-rippings, skull-crushings and other unflinchingly feral deaths.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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2.5/5
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Finch & Midland
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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It is a testament to the cast’s skill that they manage to wring moments of genuine emotion from such heavy-handed material, which mistakes grimness for profundity.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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James Mottram
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DaCosta’s morally complex thriller sets us up for a grandstand finish.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3/5
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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James Mottram
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The terrible burden of grief is laid bare in The Thing with Feathers, a gloomy but undeniably touching drama.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3/5
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Back to the Past
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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A subpar historical sci-fi fantasy that is saved – and arguably even transcended – by the potent wave of nostalgia it inspires in its target audience.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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3.5/5
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Pass and Goal
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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This feel-good, family-friendly offering defies expectations with its infectious positivity and cheeky humour.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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4/5
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
(2025)
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James Marsh
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A beautifully staged and delicately poised rumination on the parallels between writing and travel.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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2.5/5
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Under Current
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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Under Current is a quintessential example of the Hong Kong crime film in its present, transitional state. While it paints a mostly watchable portrait of greed and corruption, the film’s story also happens to be thoroughly detached from reality.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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2.5/5
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Road to Vendetta
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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Road to Vendetta, a violent, John Wick-inspired action thriller co-produced by Hong Kong and Japan, delivers as a pop idol vehicle with its ample visual style. [But] the film’s screenplay appears multiple revisions away from telling a convincing story.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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3/5
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Someone Like Me
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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Acting accolades may naturally follow Liew in the coming awards season, although it will be fascinating to see where Tam’s directing career goes next after such a daring, sensitive work that stays so true to her own vision.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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James Mottram
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It is not "Pixar at its peak" levels, but Zootopia 2 will delight kids craving a bit of pre-Christmas sparkle.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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3/5
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Golden Boy
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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This hot-blooded but generic tale about perseverance works better as a record of Cheung’s sheer determination to reinvent himself than as the artistic breakout that he had hoped it would be.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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3/5
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Against All Odds
(2025)
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James Marsh
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While Against All Odds is smaller and scrappier than most recent Chinese war movies, Lau’s bold endeavour punches well above its weight and makes the compelling case that an engaging story is always worth fighting for.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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5/5
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Kokuho
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Anchored by an astonishing central performance from Ryo Yoshizawa and a fastidious devotion to the traditional art of kabuki theatre, Lee Sang-il’s sumptuous saga Kokuho emerges as the finest Japanese film of the year.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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2.5/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Despite the convincing sleight of hand, conjuring excitement is one thing this film fails to do.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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2/5
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96 Minutes
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Hung’s ambitious screenplay poses some legitimate moral quandaries about the value of one life against another. ... Unfortunately, 96 Minutes lacks the narrative dexterity to draw much of a conclusion beyond revenge definitely being bad.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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4/5
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Another World
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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While the innocent looks of its two protagonists and the Japanese anime-inspired fantasy action scenes might suggest otherwise, Another World is a morally complex film that repeatedly challenges its characters with circumstances of extreme evil.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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3/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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James Mottram
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With Hawke’s bogeyman right up there with some of cinema’s most terrifying villains, this is an unsettling addition to Derrickson’s impressive canon.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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1.5/5
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Measure in Love
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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This high-concept fantasy romance ... asks its audience to succumb to the supposedly poetic swooning of its star-crossed lovers – only to make it a very tall order indeed with a criminally underdeveloped set-up and an unfathomably illogical plot.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Sons of the Neon Night
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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To focus on the convoluted, nearly kaleidoscopic story... would be to miss the pleasures of this ambitious effort, which oozes dark humour in its often cynical dialogue and boasts spectacular production design that renders every location a little surreal.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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4/5
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Dollhouse
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Packed with jumps, scares, skin-crawling stand-offs and breathless belly laughs, Dollhouse emerges as a delightful surprise, while Nagasawa leads a cast of accomplished veterans in a committed performance of unwavering confusion and abject terror.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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4/5
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Good News
(2025)
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James Marsh
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A riotously entertaining black comedy about the nature of truth, the power of propaganda and the delicate intricacies of international cooperation.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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2.5/5
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Good Game
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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While the decision to shoot the gameplay scenes in live action is a refreshing way to convey the virtual experience, Good Game is otherwise too conceptually lightweight and artificially inspirational in its telling of the players’ personal stories.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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4.5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Daniel Eagan
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Compared to this, Anderson’s last two outings – the Pynchon-derived Inherent Vice and Licorice Pizza – were lightweight efforts. One Battle After Another finds the director at the peak of his power and is sure to be an awards contender.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3/5
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The Ugly
(2024)
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James Marsh
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Yeon sets up a fascinating premise. ... Where the film falls down spectacularly, however, is by failing to reconcile these intriguing threads into a satisfying conclusion.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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3/5
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The Remnant
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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This feature debut by Kwan Man-hin is confident enough to rely on the strength of its likeable leads and not succumb to cheap humour. The Remnant is a largely engaging watch, its uneven pacing offset by a narrative that takes fairly surprising turns.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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1/5
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Operation Hadal
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Unlike his earlier operatics, Lam seems genuinely out of his depth here, lost at sea beneath a tsunami of quasi-futuristic techno-weaponry and some janky visual effects.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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2/5
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Kowloon Generic Romance
(2025)
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James Marsh
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While the aesthetic pleasures of this unique setting are legitimate and obvious, nothing else about Kowloon Generic Romance makes a lick of sense.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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3/5
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Silent Friend
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Enyedi never quite finds a way to gel these three distinct stories, despite the presence of some fine actors, including a soulful Leung. But the film does feature some mesmerising time-lapse photography.
Posted Sep 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Sun Rises on Us All
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Perhaps the film could have been a little less opaque, but Cai controls the rhythm and pacing with skill. The result is a careful accumulation of little moments that leave a big impact.
Posted Sep 06, 2025
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3/5
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Scarlet
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Scarlet is an animated fable that doesn’t fear high notes of melodrama. Fans of the director’s earlier fantasias ... are likely to be appeased, but others may find this a bit of a trial.
Posted Sep 06, 2025
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3/5
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Human Resource
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Human Resource will strike a chord with anyone familiar with the soul-sapping world of white-collar work. ... A work deeply connected to the economic, political and social strife that is increasingly part of today’s society.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/5
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Atonement
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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This powerful tale of a father who would do anything to avenge his daughter proves a thoroughly engaging watch in spite of its flaws.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/5
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Girl
(2025)
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James Mottram
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This is a carefully observed, female-driven story, whose aesthetics and sensibility come highly inspired by the delicate framing of Hou [Hsiao-hsien]. ... Girl is a promising debut.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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3/5
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For Alice
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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A remarkably stripped-down chamber drama that leaves a wistful impression with the nocturnal ambience of its claustrophobic setting, as well as the delicate relationship between its two main characters.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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3/5
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The Shadow's Edge
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Trading Hong Kong’s gritty urban setting for the luxury casinos and cobbled streets of the former Portuguese colony, Yang’s reimagining is a far grander affair than its predecessor.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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2.5/5
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My First of May
(2025)
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Edmund Lee
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It is a pity that My First of May never bothers to explore the gritty details of its protagonists’ plight and is instead content with superficially sentimental scenes that leave little lasting impression.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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3/5
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Dongji Rescue
(2025)
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James Marsh
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As with his previous wartime epic The Eight Hundred, Guan infuses Dongji Rescue with a glossy sense of scale and spectacle that helps sweep audiences up in its giddy tale of high-stakes heroics.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3/5
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Dead to Rights
(2025)
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James Marsh
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The lavish production design, strong performances and inescapable weight of the subject matter are already more than enough to ensure Dead to Rights is a thunderously powerful account of one of history’s most egregious tragedies.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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1/5
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Malice
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Playing out with precisely the same unquenchable thirst for rabid sensationalism as the journalists it criticises, Malice unspools at a frenetic pace that becomes less and less plausible with each passing moment.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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2/5
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My Daughter Is a Zombie
(2025)
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James Marsh
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Never threatening to be scary, and only serious when tugging desperately at our heartstrings, My Daughter Is a Zombie coasts by on broad silliness and sentimentality.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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2/5
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Nobody 2 is, unfortunately, a bit of a non-event, even as it tries to persuade us that it has depth. ... Odenkirk’s talents feel wasted in this largely toothless follow-up.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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3.5/5
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Last Song for You
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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A poetic and poignant romance drama that urges its jaded viewers to reconnect with their younger, purer selves... One of the most satisfying “healing dramas” to have come out of Hong Kong cinema at a time when loss and regret are among its hottest themes.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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3/5
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Montages of a Modern Motherhood
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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Tam’s nuanced performance is the best part of this realistic tale of maternity in a patriarchal Chinese society. It is a pity to see her effort diluted by the lack of engaging characters around her.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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2.5/5
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Valley of the Shadow of Death
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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Can a pastor forgive the young man who raped his daughter and indirectly caused her death? That is the premise of Valley of the Shadow of Death, a bold yet deeply flawed attempt to rethink Christianity’s advocacy of unconditional kindness.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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4/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Weapons plays out like a disturbing fairy tale that plunges you into the darkest recesses of the psyche. It is vividly filmed and performed, especially by Garner.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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4/5
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The Lychee Road
(2025)
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James Marsh
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The Lychee Road is a rollicking period adventure that boasts plenty of humour and provincial food porn certain to bolster domestic tourism, and an impressive degree of genuine peril.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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3/5
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Bursting Point
(2023)
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Edmund Lee
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Bursting Point does not have a convincing enough story at its core to transform it into a cathartic experience, but the film is so determined in making every casualty count that it may well inspire a strange admiration in the viewers who do not look away.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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3/5
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Love Lies
(2024)
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Edmund Lee
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An online dating scam takes on a life of its own in [this] fitfully melancholy, often amusing look at romance, deception and human nature that draws us in with its thought-provoking premise but struggles to realise the full potential of its ... set-up.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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