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Review of Bad Samaritan (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 07 May 2018

[David] Tennant plays Erendreich with bemused and chilling intensity and, like all good villains, he makes the audience sit up and pay attention…

Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 07 May 2018

Everything that has been said about this film, perhaps this year's most anticipated movie, is true…

Review of I Feel Pretty (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 17 Apr 2018

If only this project examined that eagerness to laugh at female unattractiveness in the viewer, instead of giving them a pat on the back for…

Review of The Titan (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 10 Apr 2018

But [Lennart] Ruff refuses to go there, into the gross-out, squishy, pulpy, B-movie zone that would give this venture a semblance of a purpose…

Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 22 Mar 2018

In fact, the kaiju themselves, in their bizarre characteristics and highly imaginative use of bio-weapons, are more interesting as characters…

Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Mar 2018

[Alicia] Vikander's more realistic take is fine, but it is bland and saddled with a saccharine rendering of the father-daughter relationship…

Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 28 Feb 2018

The best that can be said about this dull, overlong project is that it is at least pretty to look at…

Review of Winchester (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Feb 2018

Inexplicably they have the A-list talent of Oscar winner Mirren on their side…

Review of Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Feb 2018

None of the films has found a way to reconcile the two purposes - sensuality and exposition - in a harmonious, graceful way that does not require…

Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Feb 2018

Relationships between people from two eras should be important in a story, but to make it a device feels like a cheat and not a very good one either…

Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 08 Feb 2018

This movie might have been a fun, stylish homage to everyone's favourite hardboiled L.A…

Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 02 Feb 2018

At its heart, this film asks its audience to accept a contradiction, which it sells with a knowing wink and rather successfully…

Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 02 Feb 2018

Sally Hawkins brings a combination of frailty and strength to her part in this movie that makes her performance the pillar on which everything…

Review of Loving Vincent (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 31 Jan 2018

Van Gogh's paintings already shimmer and swirl on canvas…

Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 25 Jan 2018

The pace is stately and the visuals are lush, pushed along nicely by the neo-classical music score of frequent Anderson collaborator Jonny Greenwood…

Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 25 Jan 2018

The result is a compare and contrast experiment, one that feels unevenly paced and soft in focus because ideas that might have worked on the…

Review of Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 25 Jan 2018

That need to draw a movie-style narrative from animal behaviour gets annoying. The beautiful footage is good enough…

Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 19 Jan 2018

Characters are reduced to thumbnails, and there is little of the soul searching found in other war movies, in which men question the need for…

Review of Breathe (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 18 Jan 2018

Actress [Claire] Foy brings the same luminous intensity to her portrayal of Diana as she does Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series The Crown…

Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 18 Jan 2018

The film, however, belongs to McDormand as the wrathful mother, capable of conveying more menace with her steely gaze and set jawline than…

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