NYAFF 2024 Review: The Escaping Man
The popularity and critical acclaim that Bong Hoon-Jo’s Parasite received has had a much bigger impact on Asian cinema than I really anticipated. ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Breaking and Re-Entering
While the NYAFF this year is littered with a ton of character dramas and generally unconventional narrative films, it’s not lacking in crowd-pleasing ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Baby Assassins: Nice Days
For over 20 years now, action director Kensuke Sonomura has been rising up the ranks of both video game and film choreography to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Bushido
Much like how Westerns have gradually faded away from modern Hollywood cinema, samurai films have mostly fallen out of favor with modern Japanese ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Snow in Midsummer
One of the scenarios that can crop up when watching international cinema is that you might not be able to fully understand the ...
NYAFF 2024 Review: The Guest
It’s a bit refreshing to see such a minimalist horror/thriller get featured at a big film festival. After watching a ton of two-hour-long ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Granny Prostitutes
I’ll level with all of you right up front: the main reason I wanted to review Granny Prostitutes is because the title of ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Carefree Days
It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a film that could be wholly categorized as a character study. As what seems to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: For Alice
As cliché as the “sad dad” story might be in 2024, one can’t deny that it holds dramatic impact. I still remember the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Pattaya Heat
It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that Hollywood has been influential across the entire globe while other countries struggle to ...
NYAFF 2023 Review: The Sunny Side of the Street
For decades now, there has been growing concern over the refugee population in Hong Kong. With stricter laws limiting their chances to become ...
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NYAFF 2023 Review: Where is the Lie?
As a middle-aged millennial with no real understanding of younger generations, I have taken an interest in films depicting youth as a way ...