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Gezhi Town (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “By championing the heroism and sacrifices of ordinary civilians, and shifting focus away from patriotic rhetoric to intimate character dynamics, the film proves surprisingly entertaining.” – South China Morning Post Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Fans of stripped-down, unmuzzled Friday-night bloodletting will have a grand old time, as Ben’s frenzied antics result in a procession of face-rippings, skull-crushings and other unflinchingly feral deaths.” – South China Morning Post Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) 4/5 EDIT “A beautifully staged and delicately poised rumination on the parallels between writing and travel.” – South China Morning Post Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Against All Odds (2025) 3/5 EDIT “While Against All Odds is smaller and scrappier than most recent Chinese war movies, Lau’s bold endeavour punches well above its weight and makes the compelling case that an engaging story is always worth fighting for.” – South China Morning Post Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Anchored by an astonishing central performance from Ryo Yoshizawa and a fastidious devotion to the traditional art of kabuki theatre, Lee Sang-il’s sumptuous saga Kokuho emerges as the finest Japanese film of the year.” – South China Morning Post Nov 14, 2025 Full Review 96 Minutes (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Hung’s ambitious screenplay poses some legitimate moral quandaries about the value of one life against another. ... Unfortunately, 96 Minutes lacks the narrative dexterity to draw much of a conclusion beyond revenge definitely being bad.” – South China Morning Post Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “Feels like a Disneyfication of the franchise, populated with cute characters and quirky sidekicks...another example of a Disney movie trying to exonerate its central villain” – Deep Dive Movie Reviews (YouTube) Nov 9, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Incredibly air-headed, incredibly stupid, incredibly dumb and lacks the self-awareness that its central character is searching for.” – Deep Dive Movie Reviews (YouTube) Oct 13, 2025 Full Review London Calling (2025) 48% EDIT “A loving throwback to the action comedies of the 1980s and 90s...that delivers the action, the banter and the bloodshed, with something more wholesome on the side.” – Deep Dive Movie Reviews (YouTube) Sep 29, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “No Other Choice parades a ravishing visual aesthetic, through brightly coloured production design, vivid cinematography & intricately layered editing, all of which serve to underscore the escalating absurdity of this increasingly frantic comedy of errors.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Sons of the Neon Night (2025) 20% EDIT “Ultimately, Juno Mak’s passion project stands as a beautiful feat of design and staging that boasts undeniable poise and potential, but remarkably little passion.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Dollhouse (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Packed with jumps, scares, skin-crawling stand-offs and breathless belly laughs, Dollhouse emerges as a delightful surprise, while Nagasawa leads a cast of accomplished veterans in a committed performance of unwavering confusion and abject terror.” – South China Morning Post Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Good News (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A riotously entertaining black comedy about the nature of truth, the power of propaganda and the delicate intricacies of international cooperation.” – South China Morning Post Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Ugly (2024) 53% 3/5 EDIT “Yeon sets up a fascinating premise. ... Where the film falls down spectacularly, however, is by failing to reconcile these intriguing threads into a satisfying conclusion.” – South China Morning Post Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Operation Hadal (2025) 1/5 EDIT “Unlike his earlier operatics, Lam seems genuinely out of his depth here, lost at sea beneath a tsunami of quasi-futuristic techno-weaponry and some janky visual effects.” – South China Morning Post Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Kowloon Generic Romance (2025) 2/5 EDIT “While the aesthetic pleasures of this unique setting are legitimate and obvious, nothing else about Kowloon Generic Romance makes a lick of sense.” – South China Morning Post Sep 11, 2025 Full Review The Shadow's Edge (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Trading Hong Kong’s gritty urban setting for the luxury casinos and cobbled streets of the former Portuguese colony, Yang’s reimagining is a far grander affair than its predecessor.” – South China Morning Post Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Dongji Rescue (2025) 82% 3/5 EDIT “As with his previous wartime epic The Eight Hundred, Guan infuses Dongji Rescue with a glossy sense of scale and spectacle that helps sweep audiences up in its giddy tale of high-stakes heroics.” – South China Morning Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Dead to Rights (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The lavish production design, strong performances and inescapable weight of the subject matter are already more than enough to ensure Dead to Rights is a thunderously powerful account of one of history’s most egregious tragedies.” – South China Morning Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Malice (2025) 1/5 EDIT “Playing out with precisely the same unquenchable thirst for rabid sensationalism as the journalists it criticises, Malice unspools at a frenetic pace that becomes less and less plausible with each passing moment.” – South China Morning Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review My Daughter Is a Zombie (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Never threatening to be scary, and only serious when tugging desperately at our heartstrings, My Daughter Is a Zombie coasts by on broad silliness and sentimentality.” – South China Morning Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review The Lychee Road (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The Lychee Road is a rollicking period adventure that boasts plenty of humour and provincial food porn certain to bolster domestic tourism, and an impressive degree of genuine peril.” – South China Morning Post Aug 6, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “The sheer volume and velocity of jokes ensure that The Naked Gun gets more laughs in its lean 85 minutes than any other comedy you’re likely to see this year.” – South China Morning Post Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (2025) 25% 2/5 EDIT “Director Kim delivers some bombastic visuals, but struggles to conjure anything of substance.” – South China Morning Post Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Wall to Wall (2025) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Directed by Kim Tae-joon, Wall to Wall is a marked improvement on his insipid debut feature, Unlocked, and manages a few pointed jabs at the absurdity of Korea’s property market.” – South China Morning Post Jul 24, 2025 Full Review
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