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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 11 Apr 2017

Everything blows up, nothing is at stake and Dom's team looks like the Power Rangers, except more cartoon-like…

Review of The Shack (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 04 Apr 2017

British director Stuart Hazeldine cranks up the digital effects to give a fairly interesting interpretation of heaven, but they cannot make…

Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 28 Mar 2017

For a narrative that deals with the idea of subjective interpretation, Batra's storytelling style is oddly flat and unpoetic…

Review of Life (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 28 Mar 2017

What begins as a promising fact- based science thriller in the vein of The Martian or Gravity turns into a competently executed if unoriginal…

Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Mar 2017

Assayas achieves a frustrating vagueness in tone and story direction, not because it makes the viewing experience richer, but because he seems…

Review of Get Out (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Mar 2017

Peele's background in comedy serves him very well. The jokes are never riffed, nor do they feel less than organic to the plot…

Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 15 Mar 2017

The film begins strong, as an account of a forbidden love…

Review of Raw (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 15 Mar 2017

It is hard to think of a recent work of horror that mixes the lyrical with the horrific with the same effortless sense of style…

Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Mar 2017

The production is saved by interesting action sequences and strong creature effects, but it is unfortunate that a story that tries to wrest…

Review of American Honey (2016)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Mar 2017

It sounds like a mess, yet this film is anything but -- Star's journey, hustling across an America split by the rich-poor divide, is the most…

Review of Guardians (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Mar 2017

The plot is bone-headed and the quality of the visual effects is terrible, but there is a pure, unironic sense of purpose in this film that…

Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 02 Mar 2017

Quite entertaining, but as Renton observes at one point: It's just nostalgia! You're a tourist in your own youth…

Review of A Dog's Purpose (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 01 Mar 2017

The director's gorgeous images go some way towards making that message go down easier. But that is where his restraint ends…

Review of Logan (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 01 Mar 2017

This is the Wolverine movie that unlocks the explosive violence that was always inside the Marvel character but, frustratingly, never let out…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 24 Feb 2017

The zingers and comebacks just keep coming -- just as you are savouring one, another jumps out…

Review of The Return (2015)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Feb 2017

Veteran actor Chen is the best thing here…

Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Feb 2017

The jokes are mostly of Andy shrieking in terror following a threat of physical violence from Ron, because violence is what director Richie…

Review of Siew Lup (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Feb 2017

The problem lies with his tone: When everything in the soft-porn movie is a shameless genre cliche, it would be wise to wink at the audience a little…

Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 15 Feb 2017

Writer-director Lonergan's tight editing keeps the story moving forward while his ear for naturalistic dialogue lends authenticity…

Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 15 Feb 2017

The run-shoot-kick-stab schtick gets numbing, but it is impossible to fault Stahelski's attention to detail -- which was the last action movie…

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