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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 14 Aug 2016

What starts off as an intriguing Kafkaesque story about a businessman waiting to meet a king in an unbuilt desert city in Saudi Arabia unexpectedly…

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Review of Lights Out (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 14 Aug 2016

There's not a lot of screaming and pointless running around to fill time - it's a tight script in which everything adds up…

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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 13 Aug 2016

Laika has created here a genuinely enchanting fable of extraordinary artistic merit, and clearly respectfully enamoured of its subject matter…

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Review of Line Walker (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 09 Aug 2016

The big-screen treatment only magnifies the problems in this cliched and ludicrous crime thriller…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

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

Playing the BFG, via motion capture technology, Mark Rylance inhabits the giant with real humanity and warmth, his own soul shining through…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Ben Sin (27) for South China Morning Post (665) on 02 Aug 2016

This movie is tripped up by a jumbled narrative and corporate machination: Warner Bros…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

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

For those looking for some unpretentious midnight-movie thrills, Collet-Serra's film works on the most basic primal level…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Matt Glasby (349) for South China Morning Post (665) on 25 Jul 2016

You know the drill, and that's the problem: it's entirely generic, even if it's a genre that the Bourne series revolutionised…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 24 Jul 2016

A knockabout adventure that has all the zaniness of a Looney Tunes cartoon and none of the charm…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 24 Jul 2016

The intellectual subtleties of Ballard's book are rendered too obvious on the big screen, and it all deteriorates into an exercise in British…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

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

This oestrogen-packed incarnation of New York's finest ghost hunters turns out to be an affectionate homage to the 1984 original, never straying…

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Review of A Second Chance (2015)

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

Bier paints an impeccably bleak picture of her homeland, while Coster-Waldau sells the plot's more implausible moments with a nuanced performance…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

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

A hugely enjoyable romp. Alien hordes, Enterprise annihilation, ass-kicking females, emotional goodbyes ... this one has it all…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

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

The overbearing lack of subtlety and nuance is accentuated by Emilia Clarke's tone-deaf performance - a far cry from her commanding presence…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 10 Jul 2016

It has a breathless, often frantic storyline that doesn't add up to much…

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Review of Fire at Sea (2016)

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

Never preaching, Rosi leaves it for us to soak up these revelations. The result is sometimes wayward but peppered with images that sear the brain…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 29 Jun 2016

The Legend of Tarzan integrates state-of-the-art computer-generated animals and foliage into a shamelessly old-fashioned jungle adventure that…

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Review of Detective Chinatown (2015)

By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 28 Jun 2016

It says much about the colourful characters, thrilling action and inventive visual effects that Chen Sicheng's odd-couple caper never gets…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 27 Jun 2016

Tense and thought-provoking in equal measure, this is first-rate – a modern-day Dr. Strangelove played out on video screens…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 27 Jun 2016

Tense and thought-provoking in equal measure, this is first-rate – a modern-day Dr. Strangelove played out on video screens…

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