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Slant MagazineUSA‘Bunker’ Review: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Are Adrift in Muddled Parable of Social Divisions The first of his three features not adapted from one of his own plays, Florian Zeller’s Bunker also sees the French writer-director shift his focus slightly, zooming out from the psychological…

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Slant MagazineUSA‘Christmas at the Kringles’ Review: A Yuletide Horror-Comedy Gift Best Left Unwrapped From Bob Clark’s Black Christmas to 2022’s Violent Night , Christmas and carnage have long gone hand in hand in horror movies.

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Slant MagazineUSA‘A Talent for Murder’ Review: Anton Corbijn’s Elegant Potboiler Imagines a Sixth Ripley Novel Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder , a fictional story that vividly captures the psychology of Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren), is the rare successful film about a writer.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo