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Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in the real-life drama surrounding The Washington Post’s handling of the controversial Pentagon Papers in 1971. (at 19:23) Read More
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Guillermo del Toro delivers a beautiful romantic fantasy starring Sally Hawkins as a mute Cold War era cleaning lady who falls in love with a mysterious aquatic creature. Read More
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A recent social media phenomenon has emerged, whereby pretty young things with large numbers of followers can carve out a living endorsing luxury brands and products on their channels. But… Read More
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Based on Doug Stanton’s non-fiction book Horse Soldiers, 12 Strong follows the members of US Army Special Forces “Task Force Dagger”, who arrived in Afghanistan just weeks after the terror… Read More
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A brutal turf war in Seoul’s Garibong neighbourhood provides the setting for Kang Yoon-seong’s The Outlaws, a gritty police procedural that blends bloody gangland savagery with wicked gallows humour to… Read More
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Who got nominated? Who got snubbed? Whose turn is it? Read More
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Cambodian cinema takes a first confident stride into the world of contemporary martial arts films with Jailbreak, a no-frills yet mostly successful beat-em-up showcasing the Khmer fighting style of bokator.… Read More
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A wealthy Barcelona businessman accused of murdering his mistress has just three hours to prepare his testimony in The Invisible Guest, a stylish and complex thriller by Spanish writer-director Oriol… Read More
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Named best film at last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, the debut feature from Malaysian filmmaker Tan Seng Kiat charts the struggles of a working class family struggling to cope… Read More
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Stephy Tang continues her evolution from rom-com popette into legitimate dramatic leading lady as a pregnant police detective confronted by a teenage girl who confesses to murdering her parents. (at… Read More
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Margot Robbie and Allison Janney give barnstorming performances in this darkly comic mockumentary about disgraced Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding. Read More
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He doesn’t get the same recognition as other leaders of the US civil rights movement, yet James Baldwin was a prominent activist in the mid-20th century. His unfinished manuscript, Remember… Read More
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Barely two months after the Japanese adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s bestselling novel The Miracles of the Namiya General Store opened in Hong Kong, a Chinese remake arrives, with Jackie Chan… Read More
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The Crucifixion is inspired by the “Tanacu exorcism” of 2005, in which a Romanian nun died during an exorcism. When it was revealed that she had been mentally ill, the… Read More
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The unlikely friendship between an elderly busybody and an ambitious young civil servant is at the heart of Korean filmmaker Kim Hyun-suk’s lighthearted comedy I Can Speak – that is,… Read More
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Distantly evoking the most nihilistic qualities of the Coen Brothers’ brand of small-town noir, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrives in Hong Kong cinemas with a fistful of… Read More
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Chen Kaige’s hugely expensive period supernatural whodunnit boasts incredible sets, expensive CGI but somewhere along the way loses the plot. (at 27:59) Read More
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Liam Neeson applies his very particular set of skills to a New York commuter train in his fourth collaboration with director Jaume Collet-Sera. (at 22:17) Read More
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