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.
Prison Vibes
Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.
‘Double’ Vision
Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.
Treading Water
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants carries the series’ torch nicely – and with no stolen recipes.
Animal Crackers
This is getting repetitive. Zootopia 2 is a lot more of what made Zootopia such a chamer… but less.
Watch Your back, F&F
It’s goofy AF but Now You See Me: Now You Don’t knows that and doesn’t care. Good on ya, mates.
Toy Horror Story
Dolls and clowns are inherently creepy so Shinobu Yaguchi experiments with horror in Dollhouse.
Fresh Fruit
Somehow, Da Peng has made what might be the world’s first fruit thriller in The Lychee Road.
Good ‘Bad’ Movie
The Bad Guys 2 goes bad, but in a good way, and not in the way sequels go bad. Good.
Haute Fromage
Only in France could cheese play a crucial role in a coming-of-age film. Case in point: Holy Cow.
Lateral Upgrade
No dancing, no hallways, not animalistic child murder. M3GAN 2.0 is an upgrade in length but not much else.
Money is Overrated
A Samurai in Time is the kind of low-budget DIY filmmaking that reminds you why you like the movies.