Former columnist at Screen Anarchy and Screen Education. Saw 'Enter the Dragon' during its first run and it's been downhill ever since.
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Night in Paradise 2020
superior cinematography, color grading, and editing--but, most of all, superior bleakness and honesty (subtracting half a point for some moments of sentimentality that the script just couldn't resist)
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Dragon 2011
For its first half an hour or so, Wu Xia sent me into a state of the purest popcorn bliss of any film in a long, long time. Since it features Takeshi Kaneshiro, one of my favorite living stars, yes, Wu Xia had me primed from the get-go, and pairing him with Donnie Yen to form a kind of mind/body dynamic duo struck me as inspired on more than one level. Even better, Yen's character is not just a fighter…