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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Dante Lam
Starring: Christie Chen Si-xuan | Daniel Wu Yin-cho | Dominc Lam Ka-wah | Fung So-po | Nick Cheung Ka-fai
…good) and how brazenly the villains embrace their role. It’s wonderfully heightened, because Lam and company aren’t going to let the fact that certain characters are making moral compromises make…
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Starring: Amanda Hale | Felicity Jones | Joanna Scanlan | John Kavanagh | Kristin Scott Thomas | Perdita Weeks | Ralph Fiennes | Tom Hollander
…since Fiennes can also come across as very serious even in films meant to be light-hearted, it’s also a neat bit of playing against type. Fiennes and company have something…
Read the review...Haemoo (South Korea; 111 min.) directed by: Sung-bo Shim starring: Yun-seok Kim; Yoo-chun Park; Ye-ri Han Jason says: “This one has received a lot of notice in part because of…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Charles Murray
Starring: Charlayne Woodard | Elimu Nelson | Michael Beach | Omari Hardwick | Shanola Hampton | Tamala Jones
…Murray. That something eyebrow-raising grabs a couple of seconds but doesn’t quite dominate makes it an interesting sign of things to come, and that it’s not referenced immediately afterward lets…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Starring: Christa Théret | Michel Bouquet | Michèle Gleizer | Romane Bohringer | Thomas Doret | Vincent Rottiers
…her to come back daily. Soon the household will grow by a member, as son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) returns home from the war, a handsome fellow not sure what he…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Krishna DK | Raj Nidimoru
Starring: Anand Tiwari | Kunal Khemu | Pooja Gupta | Saif Ali Khan | Vir Das
…of their goals, there are moments when these guys come up with something genuinely weird and funny. The idea of a zombie stoner comedy is actually a funny enough idea…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Emil Christov
Starring: Lilia Abadjieva | Mihail Bilalov | Rousy Chanev | Ruscen Vidinliev
…informants is set just before and after the end of communism. To attempt a list of narrative events is to waste words and time. To say that the film commences…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Helen Mirren | John Hurt | Philip Davis | Sam Riley
Thom says: “This absorbing adaptation of the great Graham Greene (how could he have not won the Nobel prize is a mystery) novel is a remake of a 1947 entry…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Bill Camp | Dominic Cooper | Gemma Arterton | Luke Evans | Roger Allam | Tamsin Greig
…confound retail shelvers in the future, as it doesn’t quite favor light drama over weighty comedy enough to make that classification easy. “The movie doesn’t open with Drewe at all,…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Pang | Oxide Pang Chun
Starring: Aaron Kwok | Charlene Choi | Ekin Cheng | Kenny Ho | Nicholas Tse | Simon Yam | Suet Lam
…that China’s martial-arts comics have received. On the other hand, it is pretty much what you’d expect to come of giving Danny & Oxide Pang a bunch of money to…
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