Cleaner Review: Daisy Ridley’s Spirited Performance Leads Martin Campbell’s Lacklustre Die Hard Clone
Enlisting Daisy Ridley to play a former soldier-turned-titular Cleaner and placing her in a Die Hard mould under the direction
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Snow White Review: It’s Heigh-No in Marc Webb’s Bland Live-Action Fairy-Tale Musical
Magic mirror on the wall, is Snow White a good movie at all? That’s the question I’ve been having doubts
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Locked Review: A Tense Confined Space Thriller Benefits From Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins’s Engaging Two-Hander
I have always been intrigued by the concept of a character trapped in a confined space such as this one
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Blossoms Under Somewhere 寄了一整個春天 Review: Riley Yip’s Erratic But Well-Acted Coming-of-Age Dramedy Features Collar’s Marf Yau’s Breakthrough Performance
There are Blossoms Under Somewhere for first-time director Riley Yip (Yuk-Ying), whose previous screenwriting credit was the late Liu Kai-Chi-starred
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Borderline Review: A Would-Be Potential Comedy Thriller That Suffers From Tonal Inconsistencies
The first thing that gets me excited over Borderline is the pitch-perfect casting of Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson. The
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The Electric State Review: A Surprisingly Dull, Retro Sci-Fi Blockbuster Wannabe
It’s go big or go home for the Russo brothers’ latest big-budget blockbuster The Electric State, where the deep-pocketed Netflix
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Ne Zha 2 哪吒之魔童闹海 Review: Jiaozi’s Epic Animated Sequel Packs Stunning Action, Stephen Chow-Inspired Humour and Emotionally Resonant Drama
Here’s the biggest question surrounding Ne Zha 2: Is the sequel as great as the China box office, which already
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I’m Still Here Review: Fernanda Torres’s Quietly Affecting Performance Dominates Walter Salles’s Oscar-Winning Political Drama
If there are significant things worth mentioning about I’m Still Here, it would be Walter Salles’s Brazilian film which successfully
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