Review
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The Nanking massacre of 1937 – which took place in the Chinese city now called Nanjing – was one of the most horrendous wartime atrocities ever committed. While numbers vary… Read More
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The court of public opinion is in session and casts its judgemental eye over a freak incident at a public hospital in the mainland Chinese thriller Malice, produced and co-scripted… Read More
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Zombies have become so ubiquitous in recent years that their infectious reach extends well beyond the realm of horror cinema. Pil Gam-sung’s hit comedy My Daughter Is a Zombie is a prime… Read More
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A lowly government official puts his life on the line to attempt the impossible task of transporting fresh fruit across China in the comedy drama The Lychee Road, set in… Read More
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It has been more than three decades since Leslie Nielsen’s bumbling police detective last cracked a case, but now The Naked Gun returns, with Liam Neeson assuming the role of… Read More
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Based on a hit Korean webtoon, director Kim Byung-woo’s ambitious science fiction fantasy Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy stars Ahn Hyo-seop as a reclusive loner who discovers that his favourite online… Read More
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The general Hong Kong audience will find the premise of Netflix’s latest Korean thriller Wall to Wall all too relatable. Kang Ha-neul stars as a professional who buries himself in… Read More
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For more than a century, movies have been adapted from novels, plays, television shows and real-life historical events. But recently, cinematic spectacles have derived from board games, toys, emojis –… Read More
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Winner of the Fipresci prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight programme in 2024, Desert of Namibia serves up a potent cocktail of adolescent malaise and assertive femininity, and… Read More
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It is with decidedly mixed feelings that audiences approach season two of Netflix’s The Sandman. They may be eager on the one hand to witness more of the show adapted… Read More
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By turns absorbing and unsatisfying, Malaysian drama Pavane for an Infant throws a spotlight on a thankless vocation in dire need of compassionate support, but does so at the expense… Read More
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Long-delayed superhero fantasy Hi-Five finally sees the light of day, almost four years after wrapping principal photography. The film was put on hold indefinitely when one of its stars, Yoo… Read More
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A mysterious serial killer taunts a pair of mismatched detectives with a cryptic string of murders dating back years in Nine Puzzles, a new series starring Kim Da-mi (Itaewon Class)… Read More
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Writer-director Ryan Coogler reunites with regular leading man Michael B. Jordan for a gangster-cum-vampire mash-up that takes dead aim at Jim Crow-era America while celebrating the cultural potency of music.… Read More
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After meeting in prison, two young women attempt to get their lives back on track in We Girls, a toe-curlingly moralistic fable from director Feng Xiaogang. The films bends over… Read More
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With three of Japan’s most accomplished actresses under 30 – Suzu Hirose, Hana Sugisaki and Kaya Kiyohara – performing under the assured stewardship of director Nobuhiro Doi, and with a… Read More
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Netflix advances its robust slate of female-fronted Taiwanese drama series with Forget You Not, written and directed by Rene Liu Ruo-ying and starring Hsieh Ying-xuan as a middle-aged woman who… Read More
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Anime compilation films are far from a new phenomenon. Since the 1970s, feature-length re-edits of animated television series have been a mainstay in Japanese cinemas. Offering diehard fans the opportunity… Read More
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