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Review of Keeper of Darkness (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 24 Jun 2016

A genre mishmash that goes from exorcism drama to gangster comedy to zombie horror to supernatural romance…

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Review of Heidi (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 14 Jun 2016

You're not going to hear people talking plot twists or modern spins about this umpteenth take on Johanna Spyri's classic children's story…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 30 May 2016

It is ironic that Criminal - which features a maverick neuroscientist character and spins its nutty story around a pioneering brain operation…

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Review of The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

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

A frenetic kids' film that is chock-full of madcap energy, throwaway sight gags and very silly puns, Angry Birds should most please those who…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

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

Alternately exhilarating and terrifying, The Jungle Book offers a hyper-realistic view of the forest as a place of natural hierarchy, unpredictable…

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Review of The Tag-Along (2015)

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

The Tag-Along has become one of Taiwan's highest grossing horror flicks in living memory -- without even the benefit of being especially original…

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Review of Heaven in the Dark (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 20 May 2016

The subtle differences between stage and film acting are amplified to often enthralling and sometimes painfully contrived effects in this part-adaptation,…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 10 May 2016

Nicholas Stoller's film throws up surprises in the way it tackles gay marriage and female empowerment without irony and extracts poignancy…

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Review of Hana's Miso Soup (2015)

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

Even if you are allergic to the manipulative tactics of tear-jerking cancer dramas, there's still a lot to savour [here]…

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Review of Collective Invention (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 27 Apr 2016

An ordinary citizen is turned into a mutant fish-man during a faulty genetic experiment in [this] mildly intriguing, if also rather predictable,…

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Review of In the Room (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 20 Apr 2016

For all its sexually charged sequences, In the Room is really more about the lingering sadness that results from the transient encounters it depicts…

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Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 10 Apr 2016

With its breathtaking photography and a still-unparalleled sense of wonder, the film demonstrated Kubrick's single-minded focus to inspire…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

The genius of It Follows lies in the simplicity of its set-up…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

There is so much goodwill in Danny Collins that even its characters' struggles are made to feel frothy…

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Review of Wonder Mama (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Family discord takes a maddening turn in Wonder Mama, a humanistic drama beset by unbearable histrionics…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Pitch Perfect 2 offers just what its audience wants: catchy musical numbers, celebrity cameos and sometimes very un-PC jokes…

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Review of Jimmy's Hall (2014)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

This 1930s-set drama chronicling events leading to the deportation of a little-known, real-life Irish political activist is a graceful digest…

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Review of Finding Mr. Right (2013)

By Edmund Lee (132) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Apr 2016

Xue Xiaolu's Seattle- and New York-set romantic comedy is nothing you haven't seen before -- although it's also pleasant enough to disarm you…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

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

Graceful and elegiac, Mr. Holmes is a poignant meditation on mortality that just so happens to feature the world's greatest detective in the lead…

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Review of Ip Man 3 (2015)

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

A respectable action drama that doesn't try to replicate the pleasure of its predecessors, instead admirably turning to contemplate Ip's priorities…

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