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Review of Nine Lives (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 11 Sep 2016

The only reason for this film's existence can be that some bright spark of a producer wanted to translate the appeal of cute cat videos to…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 11 Sep 2016

A baggy, laboured rehash that, at 123 minutes, lumbers on for an eternity…

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Review of Julieta (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 08 Sep 2016

Call it All About Her Daughter if you like, but this tale of a mother and her fractured relationship with her offspring is up there with Almodóvar's…

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Review of At Cafe 6 (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 07 Sep 2016

Neal Wu paints a sensitive portrait of the strains of a long-distance relationship, and the film offers an unexpectedly bleak account of how…

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Review of Erased (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 06 Sep 2016

Erased's fragmented and convoluted narrative may give viewers the impression it is a patiently staged, grippingly told psychological mystery,…

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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Sep 2016

In spite of its crudity, Bad Moms shows just how conservative mainstream filmmaking has become…

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Review of The First Monday in May (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 04 Sep 2016

Bursting at the seams with celebrity appearances and day-to-day drama, the appeal of The First Monday in May should reach far beyond the style-savvy…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 03 Sep 2016

Unsurprisingly, Streep hits all the right - or should that be wrong? - notes, with a marvellously tragi-comic turn…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 29 Aug 2016

Direct and full of energy, you'll laugh and feel guilty for doing so…

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Review of Nerve (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 28 Aug 2016

Joost and Schulman manage to weld this hi-tech story into one about the fragility of pubescent friendships and that very Hollywood theme of…

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Review of Shin Godzilla (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 23 Aug 2016

Toho's 29th entry in the Godzilla franchise may prove too talky for some, but still manages to pay loving homage to the lumbering anti-hero…

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Review of The Letters (2014)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 22 Aug 2016

The film presents a meek and mild story which emphasises a cloying niceness, and even brings a rosy hue to the extreme suffering of the poor in India…

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Review of The Letters (2015)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 22 Aug 2016

The film presents a meek and mild story which emphasises a cloying niceness, and even brings a rosy hue to the extreme suffering of the poor in India…

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Review of Kaili Blues (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 22 Aug 2016

Bi Gan's art-house gem is a narrative experiment which intuitively bridges social realism and magic realism to tell a story of great emotional…

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Review of Train to Busan (2016)

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

The film's zombies-on-a-train premise delivers plenty of bloody violence and breathless action, punctuated by social commentary, strong characters…

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Review of Call of Heroes (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 17 Aug 2016

Benny Chan's best film in years - a Chinese wuxia epic with obvious echoes to classic spaghetti Western films and Akira Kurosawa's samurai…

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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Aug 2016

Less a harrowing survival tale than a sweet-natured talking-animal cartoon for young children. ... This is pleasant but entirely frivolous fare…

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Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 16 Aug 2016

A dumbed-down entry in an already dumb genre, this inane sex comedy is neither funny nor outrageous enough to interest any viewer with an IQ…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 15 Aug 2016

What's really remarkable is how you'll forget this is a one-take wonder as the characters and story takes hold…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 15 Aug 2016

What's really remarkable is how you'll forget this is a one-take wonder as the characters and story takes hold…

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