MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Beaver Tales
Pixar may need to do more work to convince us it hasn’t totally been subsumed by the Mouse, but Hoppers is a good start.
Play Like a Girl
Directors Veronica Bassetto and Sophie Yang might have futures as game designers if Gamer Girls goes belly up.
I Mos Def Prefer
If this were the 2010, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! would rate a hearty "Yass Queen!”
Prison Vibes
Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.
Almost There…
Ultimate Revenge is painfully familiar. But it’s also just crunchy enough to be entertaining.
Time for Bed
We’re diving headlong into fandom territory here. No one else is going to give a shit about Scream 7 as it stands.
Girls Being Girls
Tracy Choi’s Girlfriends makes for a nice middle entry in what, fingers crossed, might be a smart, sapphic trilogy.
Warning: Too Many Zooms
It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.
More Like Intermediate
Yeah, yeah, it’s trying hard to be Heat, but you could say Heat tried hard to be Rififi. Crime 101 is a fun ride.
‘Double’ Vision
Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.
Blades of Glory
Hey, Blades of the Guardians lured Jet Li out of hiding, if only for a few minutes. Better than zero.
Literally Toxic
Not sure what it means if date night is Wuthering Heights, but hey. Whatever works.
It Could be Millimetres
Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second gets the Disney live action treatment. We’re not sure if that’s good.
Calling All Grown-Ups
Sentimental Value proves that movies can heal us, teach us and keep us entertained all at the same time. Magic!
Breaking the Cycle
At least Kenichiro Akimoto figured out who the real star is in the trippy All You Need Is Kill.
Almost Paradise
Is Send Help a survival thriller or work place wish fulfilment fantasy? Discuss.