Category: film reviews

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Legend of a Rabbit

Legend of a Rabbit marks China’s first CGI animated feature length about an abnormally large white rabbit that gets Kung-fu’ed.

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Legion

Legion is the nearly-Apocalyptic film telling the story of a day when God loses all faith in humankind and sends his legion – hence the title – of angels to destroy us.

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LEGO Movie, The

The viewing experience of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Lego-made world is really solid thanks to how everything plays out.

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Let Me In

As many of you know, this film is Matt Reeves’s American adaptation of John Lindqvist’s novel Let the Right One in, which has already been adapted into the Swedish film of the same name. First thing’s first — no, it’s not bad. At all. Let Me In is quiet, beautiful, terrifying and patient.

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Let the Bullets Fly

Let the Bullets Fly is a hard-hitting Western with a lot of Chinese flavor, telling the story of a notorious bandit who pretends to be the new governor of Goose Town to pull off a heist against tyrant Mr. Huang.

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Let the Right One In

Skinny blond kid living in snow-covered Swedish apartment complex fantasizes about giving his local schoolyard bullies their well earned comeuppance. Skinny pale girl moves in next door. Only comes out at night. Boy meets Girl. People die. Bonds are formed. Fangs are unsheathed.

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Letter to Momo, A

An 11-year-old girl moves to her mother’s hometown after the death of her father, and meets three supernatural beings known as Yokai, who will cause her more than one grief during her stay, as she deals with having to let go and moving on.

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Letters from Kanai Nirai

Letters from Kanai Nirai tells the story of Fuki Asato, a girl living in the Okinawan islands away from everything that could resemble a big metropolis, including being away from her mother who left the island when Fuki was only seven. Since then, every year on Fuki’s birthday she receives a letter from her mom, making Fuki dream of meeting again.

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Life of Fish, The

The Life of Fish is a simple film that follows 33-year-old Andres, back in his hometown after not seeing his friends for the past ten years. He’s disconnected, and possibly full of regrets… the biggest of all? Beatriz.