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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Revitalising the tired notion of a biopic, this three-act miracle is unquestionably the best-written movie of the past year…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

A valiant effort that never quite scales the dizzy emotional heights required, running out of oxygen in the final act…

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Review of The Choice (1976)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

While The Choice certainly isn't for everyone, there is something refreshing to be wrung from such an unabashedly earnest and wholesome world view…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

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

The storm scenes are exciting and unpredictable, and prove downright scary at times…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

[The movie] twists an awkward encounter with an old high-school acquaintance into a cracking psychological thriller that offers some genuine…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Painting Neverland in such drab colours, with a story that revolves around child labour, is hardly a blueprint for a fun-packed movie…

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Review of Room (2015)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Abrahamson is never less than sensitive in his handling, never close to exploitation…

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Review of Daddy's Home (2015)

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

Aside from a bit of mild toilet humour, Daddy's Home is a traditional Hollywood seasonal comedy in the mould of National Lampoon's Christmas…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

[The movie] twists an awkward encounter with an old high-school acquaintance into a cracking psychological thriller that offers some genuine…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

From the crashes of Vivaldi on the soundtrack to the static shots of clanking machinery in the nearby ski resort, it's an oddly unsettling experience…

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Review of Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery (2014)

By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

The film is equally frightening…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Apr 2016

Sachs understands [Lithgow and Molina's] consummate skills as actors; putting them together, the result is wonderfully warm and wise…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

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

The story is a neat mix of politics, Hollywood manipulation, and family life…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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

Held together by an effective, if downplayed, Chandler-esque crime yarn, it touches on Marxist theory, theology, hubris, and even synchronised…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 04 Apr 2016

With a wraparound narrative that never really strikes a balance between past and present, all that axe-flinging, ice-casting action makes a…

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Review of Allegiant (2016)

By James Mottram (656) for South China Morning Post (665) on 04 Apr 2016

Allegiant ... is an underwhelming encounter that feels as drab as the ruinous, walled-off Chicago setting of the preceding films…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 04 Apr 2016

Although it would be stretching things to describe Zootopia as a metaphor for modern society, its underlying message of racial tolerance is…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

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

Graceful and elegiac, Mr. Holmes is a poignant meditation on mortality that just so happens to feature the world's greatest detective in the lead…

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Review of Ip Man 3 (2015)

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

A respectable action drama that doesn't try to replicate the pleasure of its predecessors, instead admirably turning to contemplate Ip's priorities…

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Review of Our Little Sister (2015)

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

Our Little Sister is an uneventful, if also overwhelmingly life-affirming, family portrait that once again establishes Koreeda as one of today's…

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