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Clarence Tsui
Clarence Tsui's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Hollywood Reporter
South China Morning Post
Movies reviews only
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Project Silence (2023) |
This extremely loud disaster movie repeats territory well-trodden in classics such as The Host, Train to Busan and Tidal Wave. Unfortunately, Project Silence ends up a bad cover version of these originals. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 23, 2023
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The Breaking Ice (2023) |
Bolstered by flowing camerawork and a dynamic performance from Zhou Dongyu, the film is an enjoyable if somewhat lightweight drama about three young people trying to drink and frolic away their physical and psychological traumas. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Only the River Flows (2023) |
Wei Shujun’s third feature offers a mix of dead-end detective work, doomed characters and surreal dreamscapes. ... What is not in doubt is his standing as one of China’s most complex cineastes. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Youth (Spring) (2023) |
Drawn from a whopping 2,600 hours of footage filmed between 2014 and 2019, ... the film offers an immersive and affecting overview of the joy and angst experienced by the young, listless and faceless masses on society’s margins. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Green Night (2023) |
While Fan's performance certainly ranks as one of the most rugged in her career, the film itself flounders at every turn, its story weak and its structure unwieldy. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted Mar 07, 2023
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Plan 75 (2022) |
Hayakawa has delivered something at once harrowing in its ambience, humane at its core and hard-hitting in its critique against the ageist mores of a cold, pragmatic society. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted Jun 01, 2022
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Next Sohee (2022) |
Revolving around a student called Sohee and her spiralling life as a call centre worker, Next Sohee is a full-throated condemnation of the exploitation and abandonment of disfranchised young people by employers, schools and the authorities alike. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted Jun 01, 2022
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Return to Seoul (2022) |
Though Chou is neither a woman nor a Korean, nor an adoptee, he has managed to find something in Return to Seoul that he clearly connects with, and that resonates with anyone else looking for their own place in the world, too. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted Jun 01, 2022
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Hunt (2022) |
Hunt will be remembered for a film which would count history junkies and hardcore action-movie fans as its aficionados. Only them, that is: everybody else would probably find Lee Jung-jae’s espionage thriller excessively bombastic and muddled. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 23, 2022
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Seoul Station (2016) |
While not exactly as intriguing and powerful as his previous animated features, Seoul Station still offers visuals and a narrative in perpetual, gripping motion. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 20, 2020
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019) |
A gentle and engaging family drama that ebbs and flows. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted May 28, 2019
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The Halt (2019) |
Diaz has yet to swap art for arms in order to bring change to his society. But the fire still burns brightly within him, it seems. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted May 25, 2019
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Summer of Changsha (2019) |
Summer in Changsha smoulders but fails to spark. What begins as a murder mystery morphs into a sluggish, archetypal relationship drama. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 23, 2019
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To Live to Sing (2019) |
A heartrending account of one person's increasingly frantic but ultimately futile efforts to bring back the glory days that have long receded into the past. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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Nina Wu (2019) |
Nina Wu is taut, topical and terrifying. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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The Wild Goose Lake (2019) |
While not a classic in the making, this film is a sensational thrill ride full of beauty and danger. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted May 20, 2019
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Chasuke's Journey (2015) |
Sabu is no hack, but Chasuke's Journey runs dangerously close to pushing the director's reputation in that direction. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted May 16, 2019
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A slow-burning piece in which the awkward prodigal-daughter protagonist's anguish is alluded to rather than wrought large through contrived exchanges. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 21, 2019
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Convincingly acted continent-hopping drama. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Cruises along with a mix of sex, schmaltz, gore and comical gags. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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My Little One (2019) |
This latest outing from Swiss-French directorial duo Frederic Choffat and Julie Gilbert ends up ringing as empty of meaning as the arid and sparse spaces they have strived to capture onscreen. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Kudo has delivered a first feature filled with the flaws, flair and fury one would expect from a promising young filmmaker. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Chinese Portrait (2018) |
A subjective and utterly revealing snapshot of the state of Wang's country. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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A deft mix of profound emotions and stylistic experiments. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Departing from the austere storytelling of his debut, Xing pulls out the stops to showcase his visual craftsmanship, his ability to manage a complex narrative, and his willingness to conform to some of the clichés of commercial filmmaking. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 18, 2019
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While derivative in parts - and Zhu, to his credit, is candid in his production notes about his love for Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul's work - Vanishing Days marks the emergence of an artist with an audacious vision. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 04, 2019
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A First Farewell (2018) |
A First Farewell offers a subtle yet incisive look at how China's Muslim minority grapples with the pressure to ditch their own culture and conform to the social norms of the day. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Feb 27, 2019
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So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang) (2019) |
So Long, My Son signals a return to form for one of Chinese cinema's favourite sons. - South China Morning Post
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| Posted Feb 21, 2019
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Elisa & Marcela (2019) |
Reworks an early 20th century story into a plodding, protracted melodrama where provincial folk speak, behave and act like their 21st century counterparts. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Feb 14, 2019
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Take Point (2018) |
A taut, topical and technically superb thriller. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jan 23, 2019
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Default (2018) |
An engaging multi-strand story about a nation in turmoil. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jan 10, 2019
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The Father's Shadow (A Sombra do Pai) (2018) |
There's no denying the young director's ability to conjure a doomed ambience out of an array of seemingly non-descript locations and inanimate objects. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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Lakbayan (2018) |
[The] three shorts making up Lakbayan are very representative of their creators' wildly different approaches in producing politically-charged art. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 25, 2018
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Tabineko ripôto) (2018) |
It offers a more substantial narrative, more striking imagery and more sophisticated technique than, say, bizarre crossovers, such as Samurai Cat or Neko Ninja, or the cellphone-game-turned-movie Neko Atsume House. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 25, 2018
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Miss Baek (2018) |
Furious performances in a piece of gritty drama. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 24, 2018
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A fittingly beautiful and measured farewell. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 24, 2018
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The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian) (2018) |
A dynamic debut from a first-time director and her young cast. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 22, 2018
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The Red Phallus (2018) |
Visually striking and remarkably symbolic, The Red Phallus is a film hard to overlook, and not just because of its startling title. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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Savage (2018) |
Taut, stylish and straightforward. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 11, 2018
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House of My Fathers (2018) |
A poetic allegory on war and its consequences. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 10, 2018
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Beautiful Days (2018) |
Beautiful Days certainly lives up to its title with its mesmerizing imagery and very polished production values. But it is weighed down by a cliched narrative and simplistic moral binaries... - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 05, 2018
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Memories of My Body (2018) |
A moving piece of physical and political drama. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Sep 14, 2018
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Kraben rahu (2018) |
Warm, lush and topical human drama. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Sep 08, 2018
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Graves Without a Name (2018) |
A haunting and lyrical ode to Cambodian history and humanity. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 29, 2018
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Europe Raiders (2018) |
The film's passé premise is further deadened by a weak story and script. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 23, 2018
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Hidden Man (2018) |
A dazzling but derivative piece oozing with adrenaline and anachronistic gags - including what's possibly a preemptive dig at film critics - Hidden Man more or less melts into a gust of hot air. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jul 30, 2018
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BuyBust (2018) |
Goes beyond easy moral binaries to highlight how Duterte's warped worldview has made monsters out of everyone from the police to the peddlers to the ordinary people in between... - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Ten Years Taiwan (2018) |
Deploying a mix of low-key docudrama, middlebrow satire and high-concept sci-fi, Ten Years Taiwan offers stylistically varied but invariably gloomy predictions of how things will be in a decade's time. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jul 16, 2018
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Respeto (2017) |
Respeto offers a gripping if sometimes slightly melodramatic look at the chaotic clash of values shaping the Philippines today. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jul 12, 2018
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The Crimes That Bind (Inori no maku ga oriru toki) (2018) |
Falls short of becoming a full-fledged cinematic experience. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jun 20, 2018
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