MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Not Just Sport
Zar Amir Ebrahimi is still taking the Iranian state to task, this time in a classic sports drama, Tatami.
‘War’ Heroes
Alex Garland’s Civil War isn’t what you think it is and it’s not going to serve any of our biases.
Over the ‘Moon’
First-timer Sasha Chuk gets personal in the semi-autobiographical Fly Me to the Moon.
Get the Gauze
Ado-rom! That’s it. 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days is a better adolescent romance than most.
Good ‘Omen’
It could be a lot scarier, but The First Omen is a legit strong addition to an under-exploited property.
Still Walking
Tsai Ming-liang still has Lee Kang-sheng walking, this time in Washington DC for Abiding Nowhere.
At Least it’s Fast as Lightning
Po the kung fu fighting giant panda returns for more of the same in Kung Fu Panda 4.
‘Well’ Wishes
Hong Kong director Ray Yeung probes the legality and morality of same-sex partner inheritance rigths in All Shall Be Well.
Sorry, Hayao
It’s not as dark ast Kitaro, but Totto-Chan tells The Boy and the Heron’s story better.
Ordinary ‘LIfe’
Anthony Hopkins makes the British Oskar Schindler into a compellign wartime hero in the otherwise honourable, but pedestrian, One Life.
Village Crier
Tsang Tsui-shan heads back to the village in the third in her unofficial Ho Chung trilogy, Winter Chants.
Lost ‘Love’
Might as well cue up a Spotify playlist. You’ll learn as much as you will from Bob Marley: One Love.
Lyric Jumble
The Lyricist Wannabe will tell you why we should have a little more respect for Cantopop.
Payne Relief
Da’Vine Joy Randolph steals the show in Alexander Payne’s latest angsty white guy drama, The Holdovers.