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Review of Remember (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Nov 2016

This lurid and disorienting story of an old man out for revenge is a Memento-like narrative puzzle enhanced by the immense presence of Christopher…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Nov 2016

This lurid and disorienting story of an old man out for revenge is a Memento-like narrative puzzle enhanced by the immense presence of Christopher…

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Review of Crazy About Tiffany's (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 02 Nov 2016

The only bubble burst throughout this ode to luxury living? They wonder if Holly Golightly was really a hooker…

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Review of One Night Only (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 01 Nov 2016

One Night Only rarely bores - although it's also peppered with enough artificial plot turns and revelations to keep you from truly feeling…

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Review of Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 31 Oct 2016

You don't need a keen interest in history to be swept up in the deeply poignant delivery of Yoji Yamada's unmistakable anti-war message…

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Review of Heartfall Arises (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 26 Oct 2016

There are over 1.3 billion people in China -- soon to be the largest film market in the world -- so it's hard to understand why the Chinese…

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Review of SoulMate (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 25 Oct 2016

Derek Tsang's film transcends its potentially cloying premise to tell a story of friendship and love that's at once melancholy and very emotional…

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Review of Night's Tightrope (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

Night's Tightrope offers everything from vengeful schoolgirls and ghastly suicides to a relentlessly gloomy view of Japanese society to satisfy…

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Review of The Emperor in August (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

An elegant yet overly detached account of events leading up to Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies on August 15, 1945…

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Review of Buddy Cops (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

This TVB-presented Hong Kong-China co-production [is] a distinctly family-unfriendly movie scattered with bad language, psychotic characters…

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Review of The Mobfathers (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

Its colourful characters, uninhibited display of gangland violence, and cheeky adaptation of political statements taken from the city's increasingly…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 04 Oct 2016

This post-Holocaust drama, while admittedly quite engrossing to watch, can't avoid coming across as overly streamlined to offer easy catharsis…

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Review of A Chinese Odyssey Part Three (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Sep 2016

It'd be very hard to think of a more pointless reboot than writer-director Jeff Lau Chun-wai's A Chinese Odyssey Part Three…

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Review of At Cafe 6 (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 07 Sep 2016

Neal Wu paints a sensitive portrait of the strains of a long-distance relationship, and the film offers an unexpectedly bleak account of how…

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Review of Erased (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 06 Sep 2016

Erased's fragmented and convoluted narrative may give viewers the impression it is a patiently staged, grippingly told psychological mystery,…

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Review of Shin Godzilla (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 23 Aug 2016

Toho's 29th entry in the Godzilla franchise may prove too talky for some, but still manages to pay loving homage to the lumbering anti-hero…

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Review of Kaili Blues (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 22 Aug 2016

Bi Gan's art-house gem is a narrative experiment which intuitively bridges social realism and magic realism to tell a story of great emotional…

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Review of Call of Heroes (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 17 Aug 2016

Benny Chan's best film in years - a Chinese wuxia epic with obvious echoes to classic spaghetti Western films and Akira Kurosawa's samurai…

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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Aug 2016

Less a harrowing survival tale than a sweet-natured talking-animal cartoon for young children. ... This is pleasant but entirely frivolous fare…

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Review of Detective Chinatown (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 28 Jun 2016

It says much about the colourful characters, thrilling action and inventive visual effects that Chen Sicheng's odd-couple caper never gets…

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