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02/18/13 |
Good |
 "...the labyrinthine plot may leave some auds feeling out of their depth, but engrossing performances in a later dramatic thread propel the film to a strong climax." |
| 2. |
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01/02/13 |
Very Good |
 "Peppering this feel-good road movie with the perkier thrills of a cat-and-mouse chase, Xu Zheng draws sparks from a talented comic trio cast..." |
| 3. |
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09/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...cheap and dreadful.... Atmosphere and execution are trite and old-school compared with the pic's J-horror tyke-terror counterparts..." |
| 4. |
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08/30/12 |
Good |
 "Lo Chi-leung sheds the shock tactics of his best-known horror-thrillers, 'Inner Senses' and 'Koma,' to pursue an expositional approach and pulls it off..." |
| 5. |
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08/21/12 |
Good |
 "...debonair.... playful and unpredictable... Choi Dong-hoon plays his cards right in terms of spectacle, drama and character bonhomie." |
| 6. |
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07/10/12 |
Good |
 "Hsia wittily subverts racial cliches in this sociocultural comedy of manners, even as he can't help replacing them with a few new stereotypes." |
| 7. |
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06/18/12 |
Good |
 "A supernatural costumer about a fox demon's hunger for true love... combines technical razzle-dazzle with a competently told yarn that allows its stars to shine." |
| 8. |
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06/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "...plays it safe.... Hur Jin-ho orchestrates an elaborate ensemble with as much suavity as Valmont employs in his sexual stratagems..." |
| 9. |
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05/26/12 |
Weak |
 "...a trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes." |
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05/20/12 |
Excellent |
 "Beguilingly simple, relaxed in its mastery and enhanced by Isabelle Huppert's impeccable poise... plays like the flipside of Hong's Paris-set 'Night and Day.' " |
| 11. |
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05/17/12 |
Good |
 "Everything or nothing can be read into the film... it plays like a bonus track to the Thai auteur's Palme d'Or winner, 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'..." |
| 12. |
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03/21/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a refreshingly authentic romantic comedy about the tradeoffs people must make in their relationships, careers and lifestyles." |
| 13. |
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02/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the three tenuously linked stories in the formulaic 'Love' are cute, crumbly and not particularly filling.... employs a conventional menage-a-trois setup and neatly resolves all conflicts by its upbeat end." |
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01/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...has all the action-junkie goods and then some, including the most jaw-dropping scenes of plummeting in recent Hong Kong stunt choreography." |
| 15. |
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12/30/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...extravagant and berserk... Tsui behaves like a kid in a candy store, bingeing on effect for effect's sake... It's dazzling... Only, it lacks a human touch." |
| 16. |
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12/07/11 |
Excellent |
 "Marlon Rivera exploits cliches to lambast the pretensions of independent cinema in his country and his fellow filmmakers' inflated egos.... witty, bitchy and cine-literate... among the most outstanding directorial debuts in Philippine cinema this year." |
| 17. |
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10/03/11 |
Poor |
 "A mainland Chinese propaganda vehicle... postulates history in such a scrappy, inaccessible manner that either as entertainment or education, it's a lost cause." |
| 18. |
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09/11/11 |
Very Good |
 "...bittersweet.... what haunts one most is the outsider's sense of impotence in the face of a fellow human's misfortune..." |
| 19. |
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07/13/11 |
Moderate |
 "...elevated by its emotional complexity but simultaneously dragged down by the relative shortage of propulsive, hardcore action." |
| 20. |
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06/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...laced with a soupcon of romanticism in its portrait of Mao Zedong as a young political theorist.... The all-important official founding of the party trails off into a mystical haze of tableaux vivants." |
