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Demon City 2025
Following the excellent “Melancholic”, Seiji Tanaka opted for a rather different perspective on killers of hire, this time adapting “Oni Goroshi”, a manga series by Masamichi Kawabe, in Netflix-style, violence-sensualizing way
The story of “Demon City” is so cliched and filled with plot holes that it is almost impossible to take anything that is happening here seriously. The sleeping killer that wakes up in order to exact revenge, the reemergence of someone considered dead, the legend of a demonic killer,…
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Eyes of Gaza 2024
As mentioned in the prologue of the movie, more journalists have been killed over the course of a year in the Israel-Gaza war than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists started collecting data in 1992. Instead of ‘killed’ however, Atassi uses the word ‘martyred’, which does imply a sense of self-righteousness in an occupation that frequently indulges in such. However, the ‘story’ and what is depicted in the documentary definitely makes the viewer forget about this already minor issue.
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This City Is a Battlefield 2025
After shooting “Trigger Warning” with Jessica Alba in Hollywood, Mouly Surya returns to Indonesia, adapting Mochtar Lubis’ 1952 novel “A Road with No End”. Her influences from Hollywood are quite evident (the way music is implemented for example), as much as from Ann Hui (in the style of “Our Time Will Come”) and a bit from Korean cinema, in the style of “Assassination”.
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Whispers in the Dabbas 2025
“Whispers in the Dabbas” is a very rewarding movie that shows that subjects as the one Nugroho is focusing on can be presented on cinema through an arthouse approach, and not only through drama or documentary.
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