Sheep Without a Shepherd Reviews
September 24, 2020
[A] low stakes, but hugely impactful, village-set action movie, in which even time stamps on surveillance footage are exciting.
September 10, 2020
Chen is delightfully wicked as the morally compromised chief of a corrupt and abusive police department, however, and the plot is engrossing enough to forgive the movie's excesses.
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| Original Score: B
September 9, 2020
...a good remake with a lot of emotions put into its runtime.
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| Original Score: 4/5
August 21, 2020
The plot requires a huge suspension of disbelief. Those who are willing to take that leap are in for a thrilling cat and mouse game.
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| Original Score: 7/10
August 21, 2020
With a carefully constructed, multi-layered screenplay, great performances and some inspired directorial flourishes, Sheep Without a Shepherd is a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse with a wicked sense of humor and a genuinely surprising conclusion.
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| Original Score: 7/10
August 20, 2020
Few directors knock it out of the park their first time around yet on his first time directing a feature film Quah has found a perfect balance of thrills and chills, and rolling emotions.
August 20, 2020
A divertingly clever cat-and-mouse thriller, the editing is niftier than the script.
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| Original Score: 3/5
August 20, 2020
Although the premise is undoubtedly far-fetched, Malaysian director Sam Quah succeeds in constructing the kind of tightly wound suspense piece for which disbelief can be suspended.
August 19, 2020
Sheep Without a Shepherd is an exceptional ode to crime thrillers and cinema lovers, with the affecting relevance of how the roar of the victimized can topple their oppressors.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
August 19, 2020
Weijie namechecks Hitchcock and the grandmaster might have approved of the jaunty tone at work in this story of blackmail, death and deception: equal parts folktale and internet-age morality yarn.
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| Original Score: 3/5