SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant sees Ben Affleck play an autistic bookkeeper, whose condition proves to be both a gift and a dangerous burden. Slickly executed yet overly ambitious, the film wrestles with… Read More
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Following the success of superhero film Chronicle and last year’s American Ultra , screenwriter Max Landis turns in another oddball action rom-com with Mr. Right, directed by Paco Cabezas. Read… Read More
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King Kong vs Godzilla. Freddy vs Jason. Cinema loves staging high-stakes bouts between its most iconic characters for our entertainment. Read my review Read More
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Brimming with magic, mystery and monsters, Tim Burton’s latest family fantasy nevertheless manages to feel lethargic and discernibly lacking in any of the director’s trademark visual style. Read my review Read More
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Hot on the heels of monster hit Train to Busan, which is on track to become the most successful Asian film of all time in Hong Kong, it’s no surprise… Read More
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After the huge success of Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and its follow-up The Edge of Reason (2004), Helen Fielding’s wine-quaffing heroine returns for a belated third go-around. Read my review Read More
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Fashion’s status as a legitimate art form and the influence of Chinese art on Western designers are explored in Andrew Rossi’s engrossing documentary about the staging of the Metropolitan Museum… Read More
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Foodies may struggle to control themselves during Naotaro Endo’s documentary about the famed Tokyo fish market, as the film is packed throughout with drooling close-ups of glistening sushi grade seafood.… Read More
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A darkly comic satire of Japanese political bureaucracy, Toho’s 29th entry in the Godzilla franchise may prove too talky for some, but still manages to pay loving homage to the… Read More
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Based on a harrowing true story and retold with unflinching poise and skill, Kilo Two Bravo tells the nerve-shredding tale of a unit of British soldiers in Afghanistan who unwittingly… Read More
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After a brace of gritty, socially charged animated films, director Yeon Sang-ho’s live-action debut proves a commercial juggernaut on its way to setting box office records in his native South… Read More
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Chariot races, galley slaves and the Messiah himself all return for Timur Bekmambetov’s remake of the Charlton Heston classic, but Ben-Hur proves yet another underwhelming blockbuster in a season packed… Read More
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Following the success of Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, stop-motion giant Laika tackles full-blown fantasy in Kubo and the Two Strings, the epic story of an orphaned boy with magical… Read More
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Adapted by Taiwanese author turned filmmaker Giddens Ko Ching-teng from his own novel, The Tenants Downstairs ventures into far darker territory than his blockbuster teen flick You Are the Apple… Read More
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What could have been a biting satire pitting small-town conservatism against big-city liberalism, How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town plays its suburban sexploits so safely it threatens… Read More
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TVB’s 2014 hit drama series Line Walker gets an expensive spin-off, adding A-list stars and exotic South American locations around Charmaine Sheh Sze-man’s CIB officer Ding, an undercover cop who… Read More
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After learning he has only one day to live, a young man enters into a Faustian pact, bartering his most treasured possessions for more time on earth. Read my review Read More
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For what was only ever a one-joke premise, Yuichi Fukada gets a surprising amount of mileage from the crime-fighting antics of teenager Kyosuke (Ryohei Suzuki), who draws his superpowers from… Read More
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