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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 08 Nov 2016

The risqué nature of the chat doesn't mask the fact that directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, bizarrely, do intend to convey a message,…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 07 Nov 2016

This is a B-movie dressed up to look like something deeper, although that doesn't negate its potential to entertain…

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Review of Crazy About Tiffany's (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 02 Nov 2016

The only bubble burst throughout this ode to luxury living? They wonder if Holly Golightly was really a hooker…

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Review of The Wailing (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 02 Nov 2016

The Wailing isn't quite dynamic enough to truly terrorise, but ... there are ferocious moments that puncture the stillness…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 01 Nov 2016

DreamWorks has arguably produced its strangest animation yet with Trolls, a bright-and-breezy sing-a-long fairy-tale cartoon musical…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 01 Nov 2016

Inferno proves to be as crude and unsophisticated as its source material…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 01 Nov 2016

Inferno proves to be as crude and unsophisticated as its source material…

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Review of One Night Only (2016)

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

One Night Only rarely bores - although it's also peppered with enough artificial plot turns and revelations to keep you from truly feeling…

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Review of Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 31 Oct 2016

You don't need a keen interest in history to be swept up in the deeply poignant delivery of Yoji Yamada's unmistakable anti-war message…

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Review of Heartfall Arises (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 26 Oct 2016

There are over 1.3 billion people in China -- soon to be the largest film market in the world -- so it's hard to understand why the Chinese…

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Review of SoulMate (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 25 Oct 2016

Derek Tsang's film transcends its potentially cloying premise to tell a story of friendship and love that's at once melancholy and very emotional…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 24 Oct 2016

A joyous, intelligent and moving journey, but above all else it's a celebration of music and its unique power to transcend boundaries and unite…

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Review of Tsukiji Wonderland (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

Tsukiji Wonderland ventures deep into the bowels of the culinary Mecca, to study not only the Japanese love of all things fish, but also their…

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Review of Night's Tightrope (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

Night's Tightrope offers everything from vengeful schoolgirls and ghastly suicides to a relentlessly gloomy view of Japanese society to satisfy…

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Review of The Emperor in August (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

An elegant yet overly detached account of events leading up to Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies on August 15, 1945…

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Review of Buddy Cops (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

This TVB-presented Hong Kong-China co-production [is] a distinctly family-unfriendly movie scattered with bad language, psychotic characters…

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Review of The Mobfathers (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Oct 2016

Its colourful characters, uninhibited display of gangland violence, and cheeky adaptation of political statements taken from the city's increasingly…

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Review of The Age of Shadows (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 18 Oct 2016

The Age of Shadows [is] a joy to watch, its 140 minutes of action unspooling with barely a pause for breath…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 18 Oct 2016

It's entertaining enough, even boasting the odd moment of dry wit, and the rooftop finale amid a New Orleans Halloween parade is arresting…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Oct 2016

Rebecca Miller's New York-set comedy-of-manners is far removed from the traumas of her earlier works…

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