Christina Yang

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    The Blue Trail
    ★★★★★

    In a near future eerily similar to our own, Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue...

    Christina Yang 17th February 2025
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    Honey Bunch
    ★★★★★

    A certain melancholia lingers over Honey Bunch, the latest from writer-director...

    Christina Yang 17th February 2025
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    Berlin Film Festival 2025: Girls on Wire | Review

    Even with the presence of an underground heroin den, the most intriguing setting in Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire is a sprawling film studio, where reality and performance blur but never quite merge narratively into a film-within-a-film. Instead, the cool-toned, behind-the-scenes set-up is where the film’s protagonist, Fang Di (Wen Qi), a...

    Berlin 17th February 2025
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    The Old Woman with the Knife
    ★★★★★

    Assassination may seem like a young man’s game, but Hornclaw...

    Christina Yang 16th February 2025
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    Late Shift
    ★★★★★

    Unfolding over a single, high-pressure shift in a surgical ward, Petra Volpe’s...

    Christina Yang 16th February 2025
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    No Beast. So Fierce.
    ★★★★★

    Beginning with all the force of a courtroom gavel, Burhan Qurbani’s...

    Christina Yang 15th February 2025
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    Dreams
    ★★★★★

    Michel Franco’s Dreams follows the fraught romance between Jennifer McCarthy...

    Christina Yang 15th February 2025
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    Living the Land
    ★★★★★

    Set in the rural village of Bawangtai in the early 90s, Huo Meng’s second...

    Christina Yang 15th February 2025
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    Paternal Leave
    ★★★★★

    There’s a certain poetic quality to Paternal Leave, a film that leans...

    Christina Yang 15th February 2025
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    Cicadas

    Cicadas unfolds with a painterly precision, as Ina Weiss crafts a meditation on the...

    Christina Yang 15th February 2025