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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Girl (2025) Whang Yee Ling The damage of terrible parenting is painfully felt in this unflinching memoir.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Drama (2026) Whang Yee Ling Daring and darkly funny, this anti-romance on the limits of unconditional love is no date flick.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Outcome (2026) John Lui Hill wants viewers to care for a movie star in distress, but he is too Hollywood to give this satire of La La Land real bite.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Per Aspera Ad Astra (2026) Whang Yee Ling This zippy odyssey of mind-melding maximalism is the ultimate trip.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Whang Yee Ling You never know how the perverse story will next turn, nor where your sympathies should lie.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The King's Warden (2026) John Lui A crowd-pleasing historical drama that earns its heartfelt resolution by grounding a king’s tragedy in the unlikely friendship between two men who need each other to survive.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Whang Yee Ling May this sweet-natured whimsy introduce a new generation to Enid Blyton’s timeless tales.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Whang Yee Ling “A” is for the sterling acting in a bleak, unsentimental true story of one woman’s emotional journey through loss.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) John Lui This colourful, sincere space adventure puts gamers first, but does not leave everyone else behind.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Amoeba (2025) John Lui An unsentimental coming-of-age film that captures the joy and pain of being a teen misfit, grounded in strong performances and a story relatable to anyone who has been through the Singapore education system.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Nobu (2024) Whang Yee Ling This fawning corporate branding exercise is hard to swallow.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Whang Yee Ling A B-movie romp that was devilish fun loses its novelty the second time around.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Scarlet (2025) Whang Yee Ling To see or not to see? Do, because one flawed Shakespearean adaptation does not lessen Hosoda’s stature as an animation force.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Whang Yee Ling Watch this handsome spectacle on the largest screen. The wonder, though, is the emotional connection amid the vastness of space.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
How to Make a Killing (2026) John Lui This thriller wastes its premise on shallow moral justifications and miscast swagger.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Whang Yee Ling This feminist horror opera is all aimless passion with an emphatic exclamation mark.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) Joanne Soh Hoppers is not top-tier Pixar, but it sure is a dam wild ride.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Nuremberg (2025) John Lui Nuremberg is a competent but uneven drama that struggles to balance the legal procedural intrigue with psychological insight into the nature of evil.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) John Lui Scream 7 is a lifeless zombie of a franchise that mistakes fan service for film-making.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Iron Lung (2026) Whang Yee Ling The cinematic phenomenon of 2026 is less interesting as a movie than as a paradigm shift towards a new era of online-driven passion projects, away from the traditional studio model.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead of Winter (2025) Whang Yee Ling Fargo (2014) it is not, but it has its own strong female lead and icy thrills.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) John Lui Josh Safdie challenges audiences to enjoy the company of an irredeemably pathetic narcissist, and remarkably, he succeeds.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
GOAT (2026) Whang Yee Ling Bright and brash, this fable about a plucky kid is mostly for kids.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Shelter (2026) Whang Yee Ling The Stath does what he does best. Why ask for anything else?
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Blades of the Guardians (2026) John Lui Elevated by Yuen's masterful action choreography, but hampered by an overcrowded cast that leaves character relationships frustratingly underdeveloped.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) John Lui Fennell’s visually striking, psychologically intense adaptation of the novel has a bold, modern sensibility.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Eddington (2025) Whang Yee Ling This idiosyncratic pandemic caper is about much more than mask mandates.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
5 Centimeters per Second (2025) Whang Yee Ling A dreamy anime, very much a tone poem, has been remade into a snooze.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) John Lui Not trashy enough to be a guilty pleasure and generic even by the standards of algorithmic content made for streaming, The Wrecking Crew will be forgotten minutes after viewing.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Whang Yee Ling The Rip is a blunt, confident action-genre throwback of the sort American writer-director Joe Carnahan built his name on.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Whang Yee Ling Swipe left. This flashy cyber thriller squanders its provocative premise.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) John Lui Raimi’s trademark gore and slapstick, while well executed, cannot salvage a film undermined by weak writing that makes rooting for the victim impossible.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Joanne Soh Though predictable and slow-moving at times, Rental Family is an amiable tale about the significance of human connection.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Once We Were Us (2025) John Lui The film delivers a smart dissection of love’s tragic irony, earning its tearjerker moments through emotionally grounded storytelling.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) John Lui Zhao’s deft touch with emotional subject matter and Buckley’s extraordinary performance elevate this modern take on grief into a beautifully crafted tearjerker.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Whang Yee Ling Spare and intimate, this is the B-side to the voluminous biographies already available on the musician.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Whang Yee Ling The movie keeps viewers on edge through its every – occasionally, improbably humorous – minute.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) John Lui This disaster-movie sequel places family bonds and moral integrity over spectacle, earning its emotional beats.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Goodbye June (2025) Whang Yee Ling The sterling ensemble renders watchable a middling melodrama that is far beneath what its members are capable of.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Eden (2024) Whang Yee Ling The Survivor reality series has never been so luridly entertaining.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Escape from the Outland (2025) John Lui Although marred by unsubtle preachiness about China’s mission to build roads and cell towers in Africa, it offers a fast-paced, unflinching look at the horrors awaiting civilians and foreigners held for ransom by warlords.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Back to the Past (2025) John Lui This is a nostalgia-driven cash grab with bad digital effects, but its silly energy will appeal to fans of the original television series and more than a few supporters of Hong Kong action cinema.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Housemaid (2025) John Lui Sweeney’s one-note performance nearly sinks this psychological thriller, but the project is pulled from the brink by Seyfried’s scene-stealing performance and director Feig’s smart choices.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Great Flood (2025) Whang Yee Ling An impressive apocalyptic spectacle ends up drowning in over-ambition.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Anaconda (2025) Whang Yee Ling This genre send-up is absurd and affectionate with bonus surprise cameos.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) John Lui The third Knives Out murder mystery is a layered locked-room mystery which respects faith and reason while exposing religious manipulation.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Whang Yee Ling This indulgent showcase for its silver fox leading man is pleasing enough.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Die My Love (2025) Whang Yee Ling Lawrence is gobsmacking in the mother of all performances.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Joanne Soh Do not expect Cameron to inject any freshness into the story or characters, but he will take you on an extraordinary three-hour visual expedition.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Under Current (2025) Joanne Soh Under Current’s strong cast saves it from being dragged down, proving that the oldies are still the goldies.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
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