MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Credits & Debits
Who knew we needed a sequel to The Accountant? Evidently Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck did.
School Daze
The Uniform is a love triangle melodrama first, class-based education piss-take second.
Little Joy
Oliver Chan’s Montages of a Modern Motherhood is a film you respect, not one you have fun at.
Gettin’ It Done
Smashing Frank is Trevor Choi’s second film but first feature, and it runs on sheer will.
Man’s Best Client
Dog on Trial is one of those movies that shouldn’t really work, but somehow kind of does.
Time, and Time Again
First Kiss sends Takako Matsu back in time to save her marriage in yet another time-bending romance.
Comfort Food
The Solitary Gourmet is one part food movie, one part travelogue, all TV series.
Marital Drama
True Love, for Once In My Life could be the definition of current Hong Kong cinema.
Oh, Mickey
Bong Joon-ho still hates the rich, but he adds demagogues to the mix in Mickey 17.
Love Scam: Take 2
Aside from positing 38 is practically dead, Salli is an inoffensive coming of romantic age drama.
Needs More Diva
Angelina Jolie closes Pablo Larrain’s bad bitch trilogy in Maria, but she’s not the baddest.
Worlds Away
Living in Two Worlds means well, but that doesn’t make it particularly exciting.
‘Room’ to Move
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a meditation on death that’s really about life.