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Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants 2025
This bombastic wuxia epic set against the backdrop of war between the Mongols and the Song Dynasty has everything: high-flying martial arts fights, sweeping panoramas, a love triangle involving Genghis Khan’s daughter, a swelling score with occasional flourishes of Mongolian throat singing, evil wizards and thrilling battle scenes. The fights incorporate a lot of Marvel-style forcefield magic but it somehow manages to look good, thanks to effective sound design and a seamless blending of CGI with practical effects and physical…
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The Monkey 2025
Odd film about how bereavement makes everyday life feel hollow and absurd. I’ll have to let this one percolate before I can give it a rating.
Appreciated the odd beats and in-jokes (an H. Moleman in the phonebook, the secondary antagonist who looks like one of The Ramones)
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My mother and I went to see Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris in the theatre, hoping it would be like the effortlessly charming Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day. This film tries very hard to charm and fails.
The plot is as follows: Mrs. Harris, a British housekeeper whose MIA husband has just been declared dead, falls in love with the Christian Dior dress one of her clients brings home, and decides to buy one herself. After a few unexpected…
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