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Mickey 17 2025
Conceptually brilliant yet often shallow, Mickey 17 is a product more fractured than Robert Pattinson’s titular protagonist. It’s a free-flowing dark comedy, a wacky journey of self (and selves) discovery, and a watered-down Starship Troopers all at once, overlapping but never forming a whole. The film bears many of the writer/director’s signature elements—a dysfunctional autocratic society, grotesque misunderstood creatures, claustrophobic environments, sudden tonal switches—but rather than the next evolution of his craft, Bong Joon Ho’s third English-language outing plays like…
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In 2024
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) isn’t just another nostalgia-driven beat ‘em up; it’s a hard-hitting, full-throttle revival of Hong Kong’s golden age action cinema, filtered through the lawless labyrinth of Kowloon Walled City. Known for his dark, kinetic storytelling, director Soi Cheang crafts a world that feels both distant and lived-in, a brutal playground where every punch, kick, and gravity-bending move lands with devastating force. Much in line with his previous films, the violence is never diluted or…
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Spencer 2021
LFF #1 : [EN]
Behind the royal curtains
Often when biopics get made, they follow a formula. Codified, efficient and by the numbers, a template if you will. It does the job, as most would agree, and usually forfeits a lot of creative leeway in order to solely focus on the central performance. This does not necessarily make for second-rate films, and sometimes the proper method to celebrate or condemn one's life is the generic one.
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