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Reviews

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  The Legend 1993

  

  Will Sloan ★★★★½

  Hong Kong was once home to a cinema of boundless imagination and energy. A cinema in which Jet Li could stage a fight scene on top of a crowd of…

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  The Legend 1993

  

  Justin Decloux ★★★★★ 1

  There's an internally consistent, insanely complex, and constantly evolving fight scene on the top of a bunch of people's heads. One day people will hold this film alongside the great…

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  Shaolin Temple 1976

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★½

  Given the stark, horrific conclusion of this, it's surprising how much of the movie is hilarious. It lays down the template of the classic Shaolin movie, of effectively one giant…

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  Miami Vice 2006

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★★ 1

  The juxtaposition of a woman's legs at the edge of a frame lying in a pool of blood from her unseen missing head and her husband stepping in front of…

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  She's Funny That Way 2014

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★ 2

  Actual movie magic.

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  Throw Down 2004

  

  Eric Rowe ★★★★

  Watching this for the first time in several years uh, let's just say I cried. Life is hard. Connection is essential. We all have our paths and struggles. Find support…

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  The Seventh Curse 1986

  

  Jamerlich ★★★½ 2

  South Asia/Thaisplotaion in the same category of Boxer's Omen and the Witch of Nepal. Action is more standard mid 80s HK fare you would expect from Media Asia than the…

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  The Seventh Curse 1986

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★

  Absolutely goddamn wild, with an outstanding opening sequence that promises a police procedural before it abruptly lurches into supernatural kung-fu comic horror with maybe 10 total minutes of downtime in…