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Maggie Lee

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Ride or Die (2021) 69% EDIT “[Has a] liberating, inexhaustible energy.” – Variety Apr 15, 2021 Full Review The Dark and the Wicked (2020) 91% EDIT “[Bertino's] evocation of a familiar, domestic world mysteriously sliding into chaos feels all the more blood-curdling because the protagonists' distress and helplessness are emotionally relatable.” – Variety Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Under the Open Sky (2020) 90% EDIT “In his portrayal of a flawed hero who wears his heart on his sleeve, Yakusho is a towering presence delivering his career-best performance.” – Variety Sep 16, 2020 Full Review The Eight Hundred (2020) 89% EDIT “Plunges audiences into both the intimacy and magnitude of brutal war spectacle while immersing them in a stunningly mounted period canvas.” – Variety Aug 26, 2020 Full Review Special Actors (2019) 83% EDIT “A daffy ensemble trickster comedy with a few "gotcha" twists.” – Variety Aug 11, 2020 Full Review I WeirDO (2020) 100% EDIT “The age-old message that love ails without change and tolerance is given such a fresh spin, it attests to the creativity and increased sophistication of Taiwan's new generation of filmmakers.” – Variety Jul 29, 2020 Full Review Romance Doll (2020) 60% EDIT “Although its underlying attitudes about female sexuality might be problematic for female and feminist viewers, its suggestive subject matter (handled without offensive kinkiness) will set many an imaginative mind sprinting.” – Variety Jul 15, 2020 Full Review Lupin III: The First (2019) 95% EDIT “This lavish, technically polished animated caper featuring the beloved gentleman thief of Japanese manga delivers high-octane entertainment but plays safe with the canon.” – Variety Jul 6, 2020 Full Review On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019) 100% EDIT “"On-Gaku: Our Sound," an oddball music comedy directed by Kenji Iwaisawa, upends all that is typical of Japanese animation.” – Variety Jun 26, 2020 Full Review Haunters (2010) 73% EDIT “Kim Min-seok's Haunters has more loose strands and gaping holes than an old fishing net.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 8, 2020 Full Review Steel Rain (2017) EDIT “Whips up the sort of worst-case-scenario, anti-Communist hysteria that's a hilarious throwback to the Cold War propaganda of 1970s cloak-and-dagger movies.” – Variety Oct 27, 2019 Full Review Chasuke's Journey (2015) 80% EDIT “Sabu might have branched out from his crime thrillers in his previous four films, but he still hasn't lost his flair for kinetic action.” – Variety May 16, 2019 Full Review Default (2018) 78% EDIT “Manages to make currency crashes and the Asian Financial Crisis a juicy subject onscreen.” – Variety Dec 25, 2018 Full Review Shoplifters (2018) 99% EDIT “At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences.” – Variety Dec 21, 2018 Full Review The Shaman Sorceress (2018) EDIT “The finished product doesn't disappoint and should cast its spell on specialist anime fans, though the protagonists' fates may be too cruel to target young or mainstream audiences.” – Variety Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Baby (2016) 100% EDIT “Writer-director Liu Jie's vérité style captures China's new working-class milieu, imbuing the gripping plot turns with gritty authenticity.” – Variety Sep 10, 2018 Full Review Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018) 58% EDIT “The Hong Kong genre maestro's childlike imagination and technical inventiveness seems inexhaustible.” – Variety Jul 26, 2018 Full Review The Pluto Moment (2018) 100% EDIT “This deceptively simple yet quietly revelatory drama features engaging characters and offers wryly ironic comments on the unpredictable nature of film production.” – Variety May 23, 2018 Full Review Manto (2018) 74% EDIT “"Manto" is elegant and old school, epic without losing sight of the personal.” – Variety May 19, 2018 Full Review Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018) 95% EDIT “Comes up short in substance.” – Variety May 19, 2018 Full Review Ten Years Thailand (2018) 100% EDIT “A quartet of Thai directors offer a dystopian vision of their nation, steeped in a mood of collective paralysis.” – Variety May 17, 2018 Full Review The Spy Gone North (2018) 100% EDIT “This well-crafted work deserves to be seen for its thorough account of intricate workings of secret service and political skullduggery.” – Variety May 17, 2018 Full Review Sir (2018) 83% EDIT “A Cinderella tale of sorts, the film nonetheless gains gravity for its insight into Indian social rigidities that tether both impoverished villagers and well-heeled urbanites.” – Variety May 17, 2018 Full Review Ugly (2014) 60% EDIT “Kashyap's brilliant five-hour-plus epic is a hard act to follow, and this more pedestrian outing may well disappoint some critics. Still, as genre films go, it's punchy enough to enjoy a charmed life on the fest circuit.” – Variety May 15, 2018 Full Review Asako I & II (2018) 77% EDIT “Hamaguchi extols his source for a compelling representation of love as a mystic experience. However, what gets transferred to the screen becomes more like banal indecision.” – Variety May 15, 2018 Full Review
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