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Review of Sing (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 15 Mar 2017

Sing is a hugely enjoyable experience and surely there's no harm in losing yourself for a time in all the music and glittering lights…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 15 Mar 2017

Sing is a hugely enjoyable experience and surely there's no harm in losing yourself for a time in all the music and glittering lights…

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Review of River (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 08 Mar 2017

[Sutherland] pitches his performance at a delicate point between a good man struggling to extricate himself out of a dire situation, and a…

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Review of River (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 08 Mar 2017

[Sutherland] pitches his performance at a delicate point between a good man struggling to extricate himself out of a dire situation, and a…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By James Hadfield (25) for Japan Times (198) on 01 Mar 2017

There's clearly an audience for this kind of high-concept erotic twaddle, but if Park changes tack for his next film, I won't complain…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 26 Feb 2017

It's the kind of role that's tailor-made for Colin Firth…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 26 Feb 2017

As the scattershot everything-at-once world of Net connectivity ever decreases our ability to concentrate, the mere act of turning down the…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 26 Feb 2017

Argo works 100 percent as a straight-up hard-boiled thriller, but its deeper thematic current is about trust…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 22 Feb 2017

There's a melancholy to La La Land that makes it linger…

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Review of Man Down (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 22 Feb 2017

LaBeouf goes above and beyond to make Gabriel a compelling figure, but Adam G. Simon's screenplay gives him relatively little to work with…

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Review of Cell (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 15 Feb 2017

The phone-as-evil concept makes a fast exit as Cell morphs into a zombie-like flick that bears the unmistakable patina of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 15 Feb 2017

If you feel like your cinematic diet has been a bit lacking in schadenfreude lately, then look no further than Weiner, an astounding internet-age…

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Review of Free State of Jones (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 08 Feb 2017

Free State of Jones is a worthy experience, both instructive and provocative -- a lot of what goes on here is starting to look too familiar…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 01 Feb 2017

A date with Tim Burton isn't what it used to be; it hasn't been for a long time…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 25 Jan 2017

Joseph Gordon Levitt gives a stolid and precise performance in the lead role , but Stone warms him up by focusing on Snowden's long-term romantic…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 25 Jan 2017

This is much more than a film about women demanding to vote; it's about women's struggle to be heard and taken seriously, most notably in the…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 18 Jan 2017

OK, so Dr. Strange is not as soulful as expected. But in this particular reality, I'll take what I can get…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By James Hadfield (25) for Japan Times (198) on 18 Jan 2017

For all its heartfelt sincerity, Scorsese's labor of love has the cumulative impact of a long-winded Sunday sermon: devout and thought provoking,…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By James Hadfield (25) for Japan Times (198) on 18 Jan 2017

For all its heartfelt sincerity, Scorsese's labor of love has the cumulative impact of a long-winded Sunday sermon: devout and thought provoking,…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 13 Jan 2017

It's a far more realistic version of journalism than is often portrayed…

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