Review
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In Be with You, Korean heartthrob So Ji-sub plays Woo-jin, a single father struggling to raise a young son following the unexpected death of his wife, Soo-ah (Son Ye-jin). A… Read More
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Jodie Foster plays the elderly custodian of an exclusive hotel/hospital for paid-up cons in a near-future Los Angeles in the throes of a full scale riot. Dave Bautista, Jeff Goldblum,… Read More
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Films that explore struggling authors and writers block have a tendency to unravel into violence and hysteria. This is certainly the case with Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story.… Read More
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Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett headline the all-female sequel to the Clooney/Soderbergh crime capers. But can the girls pull it off with the same degree of breezy confidence and effortless… Read More
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A womanising tour guide working in Hawaii falls for a beautiful woman with short-term memory loss, meaning he must begin his seduction afresh every day in Yuichi Fukuda’s fluffy romcom… Read More
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The only thing that’ll stop a bad guy with a gun is Bruce Willis with a gun, or so this ultraviolent revenge thriller from director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe… Read More
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A trivial disagreement escalates into a national event that reopens wounds from the Lebanese Civil War in Ziad Doueiri’s Oscar-nominated drama The Insult. Skewering everything from fragile masculinity to unchecked… Read More
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One of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s best-loved films remains Pulse (2001), his paranoid nightmare about the horrors of the internet and the breakdown of human interaction. News that the Japanese director has… Read More
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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return to Isla Nublar, this time to save the dinosaurs from an imminent extinction all over again, but there are nefarious plans ahead. (at… Read More
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Clive Owen stars as a homicide detective on the trail of a vicious killer who makes the victims watch their own death in this near-future science fiction, where society has… Read More
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Fish Liew stars in Derek Chiu’s drama of social unrest in Hong Kong, as a student caught up in the 1967 Maoist protests, as well as the aftermath of the… Read More
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Japan has one of the world’s most prolific independent film scenes, one where soft-core pornography and eccentric auteurism regularly go hand in hand. The Limit of Sleeping Beauty falls squarely… Read More
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First-time director Sung Hsin-yin reviews the last 40 years of Taiwanese history in her tender yet powerful animated debut, in which an Americanised young woman returns home following the death… Read More
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A US Army sharpshooter finds himself pinned down by an Iraqi sniper in The Wall, a stripped-down military thriller by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). Caught beneath the searing desert… Read More
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British actor Peter Turner’s memoir Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, detailing his romance with Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, has been brought to the screen by Paul McGuigan, probably best… Read More
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George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead remains one of the most intelligent and influential zombie films ever made, pushing the limits of practical make-up effects, while simultaneously advancing the… Read More
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The ugly side of China’s economic boom is explored in Walking Past the Future, which premiered as the only Chinese entrant at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But despite the… Read More
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The second standalone Star Wars adventure takes a look back at the origins and early misadventures of Han Solo. Alden Ehrenreich takes the lead, alongside Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and… Read More
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