Reviews

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  Unlucky Stars

  4.0
  Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Thriller  •  USA

  A glorious tribute to the Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s, ‘Unlucky Stars’ is a hoot and a cracking martial arts film to boot.

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  Special Female Force

  2.5
  Action, Comedy  •  Hong Kong

  Hong Kong has always spliced genres together with aplomb, but this is an example of where things go wrong.

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  Operation Red Sea

  3.5
  Action, Drama, Thriller, War  •  China

  It’s big, it’s brash and in several sequences surprisingly gory but ‘Operation Red Sea’ is big screen, blockbusting action done well.

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  Detective Chinatown

  3.5
  Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller  •  China

  Stories of mismatched characters rely on the relationship between the two and ‘Detective Chinatown’ has a pair who play off each other’s quirks remarkably well.

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  Phobia 2

  4.0
  Horror, Thriller  •  Thailand

  ‘Phobia 2’ sees many of the previous entry’s directors, writers and producers return to now tell five new short tales of terror and is, surprisingly, a superior slice of portmanteau horror.

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  Till The End Of The World

  4.0
  Adventure, Drama, Romance  •  China

  While ‘Till the End of the World’ allows sentiment to become a little too exaggerated as the film nears its end it is, nevertheless, a mixture of the alienating and the intimate that works.