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  • 24 City (2008)
    Review preview for 24 City

    This blending of the truth and invention is a key plank of Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke's work, which skates so close to documentary it is hard to spot the join.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.
  • Dìdi (2024)
    Review preview for Dìdi

    Impressively, the movie digs into enough warmth and humanity that it pulls the audience through moments of severe cringe with laughs and empathy.

    Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
    In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
  • The Home Song Stories (2007)
    Review preview for The Home Song Stories

    Like girls who rely on their beauty to get what they want, Rose has faith in her ability to charm men into bed and, if required, move in with her and pay the bills.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Chinese children grow up in Australia with their beautiful mother who was a nightclub singer in Hong Kong.
  • Judge Dredd (1995)
    Review preview for Judge Dredd

    A simple piece of mindlessly gratifying entertainment.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Comic-book adaptation of 2000AD hero.
  • Lust, Caution (2007)
    Review preview for Lust, Caution

    The sex... has all the choreography of Strictly Come Shagging rather than being the exploration of lust the title suggests.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Espionage, betrayal and athletic sex in 1940s Shanghai.
  • Montreal, My Beautiful (2025)
    Review preview for Montreal, My Beautiful

    Desire does not arrive here as a clean break from domestic life. It appears as a tremor inside it.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    Feng Xia lives a life of dutiful servitude to her husband, children and community of Chinese ex-pats. When she finally decides to put herself first, and explore the sexuality that she has long concealed, she meets the free-spirited Camille.
  • Twin Peaks (1990)
    Review preview for Twin Peaks

    Defying easy genre classification, Twin Peaks is a complex, literary tale that draws together ideas from disparate sources and is always veering off in directions at once unexpected and entirely logical.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    When a detective visits a small town to find out who killed the homecoming queen, he uncovers a much deeper and darker mystery.
  • What's Cooking? (2000)
    Review preview for What's Cooking?

    What's Cooking? is better than Bhaji. It is an ensemble movie. And it works. O joy!

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Four multiracial families in suburban LA prepare for Thanksgiving celebrations.
  • Wild Side (1995)
    Review preview for Wild Side

    The performances electrify.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A banker who moonlights as a call girl gets caught up in the life of a moneylaunderer and his wife.

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