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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

This is a story of class war, manifest literally and symbolically at the same time…

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Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

This is film as activism, and documentary filmmaking as dissension…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

The monomania that drives men to their demise, as in Moby-Dick, is touched upon here though not pursued to its darkest inevitability, and yet…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Despite its shortcomings, it's worth seeing and worth trying to get your head around days after you have. Revolutionary or gimmicky…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

My complaint isn't based on nostalgia or generational grumbling; it's a fair demand for creativity in a blockbuster sea when movies seem to…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

The film has jolts of dread and calculated savagery, and yet it feels prosaic and uninspired…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

The Hateful Eight is violent, wacky, entertaining, and somewhat meaner that I thought it would be…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Andy Serkis, the actor who plays Caesar through the sophisticated performance-capture technology, gives us a soulful, complicated primate who…

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Review of Sinister (2012)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

What makes Sinister work, or at least work enough…

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Review of Like Father, Like Son (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Always gentle, always composed, the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda also register quiet devastation, often within the family…

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Review of Lost in Thailand (2012)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

The film is perhaps a more effective tourism poster for Thailand than our official campaigns; the mix of beauty and quirk is just right, almost…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Ant-Man is at least entertaining without overwhelming, and funny without the pomposity of the recent Marvel onslaught…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Based on a hit novel by Orson Scott Card, this futurist sci-fi film trudges along in perpetual low gear, its efforts at times laboured, despite…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Wong's touch remains deft, his whims trustworthy, and his indulgence is still carried over from the screen and becomes our own…

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Review of Byzantium (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

[Clara and Eleanor] are not technically human, but it's the human relationship between them that the film is confident to show us…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Her is set in the future, but its genius is the fact that it's a love story of our times…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Pacific Rim is the most shamelessly entertaining summer movie we've seen so far this year…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

The film is racked with clichés, but largely because of Damon's presence as a compact ball of energy and optimism, The Martian ends up a passably…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

Beautiful and poetic, the image of small humans in fathomless space is also elegiac and eventually frightening…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

An understated, low-key chamber piece with a devastating power…

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