MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Mucky Suds
Taiwanese director Giddens Ko rounds up his usual suspects for the kooky gangster rom-com Miss Shampoo.
Ode to Odes
Fire up the metronome. The Chinese animated blockbuster Chang An makes poets kick ass.
‘Past’ Present
Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with the semi-autobiographical Past Lives. You might want tissues.
Paradise Lost
Lee Byung-hun gets grimy in Um Tae-hwa’s drama-disaster Concrete Utopia. Note the drama.
Don’t Call Me…
Smart or too smart? Amos Why dives into the mobile world in Everyphone Everywhere.
‘Ninja’ stars
Wait, is this... is this good? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem reboots the old franchise to ace effect.
An Acquired Taste
Mirror is just so 2022. Here’s comes Error with YUM Investigation, a little 1982.
Going in Circles
If you played the “game” Gran Turismo, you may want to go back to the game Gran Turismo.
Over-built
This isn’t the hot mess we expected, but Haunted Mansion suffers from the ‘more is just more’ syndrome.
Waterlogged
For all the above-the-title talent involved, Meg 2: The Trench is pretty toothless.
Walking the Walk
Drop Barbenheimer for a hot sec and pick up Macau director Hong Heng-fai’s Kissing The Ground You Walked On.
Boom, Boom, Yau
Herman Yau’s The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell is a lot of bang for your buck. Literally. No, like everything blows up.
Best Served Old
It’s the ol’ “go back in time and kill X before Y” thing, but done really well in Tokyo Revengers – part one of three.
We Got the Pink
It’s chirpy. It’s pink. It’s less miserable than Oppenheimer. It’s Barbie, and it’s every bit as hyper as you think it is.
Blown Away
Finally! Christopher Nolan lives up to his technical prowess with Oppenheimer. And we can hear it.
‘Impossible’ is nothing
Hell yes we’ll be back for Part Two after Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.