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Film round-up: April 4, 2024
Hindu heroics, a middle-class corpse, a diabolic prequel, and daft medievalism: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Monkey Man, The Trouble with Jessica, The First Omen, and Seize Them!
New releases from The Tenementals, Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, and Kuunatic
SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
Monkey Man (18)
Directed by Dev Patel
★★★★
ACTOR turned director Dev Patel has come along way since his breakout role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire as he takes charge behind the camera for the first time in this deliciously dark and violent revenge thriller about faith.
Ten years in the making, shot during the pandemic and produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out), Patel, who also produced it, co-wrote it with Paul Angunawela and John Collee and stars as the lead Kid, India’s answer to John Wick (viz: a one-man killing machine who befriends a cute dog).
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