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Alison de Souza

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% 3/5 EDIT “There is a Spidey for everyone in this visual extravaganza, a feast of characters and animation styles that will delight some fans and exhaust others.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) May 31, 2023 Full Review The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) 59% 2/5 EDIT “The Super Mario Bros Movie’s trite and forgettable storyline could have used a power-up or three. ” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Apr 7, 2023 Full Review Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Nowhere near as good as the first Knives Out, but a decent watch if you are hankering for a mystery and some mindless, wheel-spinning fun.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Onward (2020) 88% EDIT “Like all Pixar animated movies, the new film Onward, seems precision-engineered to spark tears and nostalgia.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Mar 4, 2020 Full Review Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020) 91% 3/5 EDIT “As a music documentary, Miss Americana is straightforward, celebrating Swift as a ferociously gifted writer and lyricist, and reminding viewers of just how industry-dominating she is.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Feb 28, 2020 Full Review The Cave (2019) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Isolated from their families, they sometimes break down and director Feras Fayyad (Last Men In Aleppo, 2017) knows just how to linger on those moments.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Great Hack (2019) 85% 3/5 EDIT “All of which is sobering, and you would hope it makes viewers think twice about not insisting on better data protections and rights.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Sep 4, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is plenty of crowd-pleasing stuff - bits about trying to explain racism in America to his white Danish girlfriend as well as topics he has addressed before, like the unfair burden of contraception placed on women.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jul 25, 2019 Full Review Jo Koy: Live From Seattle (2017) EDIT “Koy does not go quite as deep, but is no less funny, albeit in a more physical, scatological way.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017) 78% EDIT “The centrepiece for Minhaj is a truly astonishing and bittersweet tale about his prom that is alone worth the price of admission.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Brexit (2019) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Brexit: The Uncivil War , feels like a postmortem performed while the patient is still alive, and is just as painful.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jan 9, 2019 Full Review Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (2018) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Some of the humour is occasionally too gentle, though - their personae's deliberately lame wordplay can get old and some songs and gags go on for a bit too long. But the whole thing makes for a nice change of pace.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Oct 4, 2018 Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “What follows is a tour de force of comedy as in-your-face truth-telling. And it moves well beyond the unwritten rules of the laugh-a-minute, observational and adolescent-inflected stand-up that has long dominated the form.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Sep 24, 2018 Full Review Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) 97% 4/5 EDIT “You do not have to like her work or activism to relate to this or rejoice with her as she takes control of her own narrative.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Sep 21, 2018 Full Review To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “No prizes for guessing who she ends up falling in love with, but as predictable as it is, the story is told with flair, both narrative and visual.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Aug 27, 2018 Full Review The Tale (2018) 99% 4/5 EDIT “The television movie The Tale, is a far more nuanced, troubling and thought-provoking look at personal trauma.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Aug 9, 2018 Full Review Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018) 100% 4/5 EDIT “But Wong's signature delivery - irascible, arms akimbo and with that comical snarl - redeems those bits, as does her frank admission that parenthood is not somehow magically transformative...” – The Straits Times (Singapore) May 22, 2018 Full Review Paterno (2018) 69% EDIT “Where this movie may really lose you, though, is when it asks you to care about what and when Paterno knew of the abuse, or even to feel sorry for him.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Apr 9, 2018 Full Review The 15:17 to Paris (2018) 24% 3/5 EDIT “Eastwood masterfully re-creates the blood-curdling fear and panic on the train, contrasting that with the men's astonishing courage as the rest of the passengers do what most people would: Freeze and cower.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Ferdinand (2017) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “The visual and verbal humour is cartoonish rather than clever and it recycles gags seen in far too many animated films, such as animals in a high-speed car chase.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Dec 20, 2017 Full Review Spielberg (2017) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “It is a surprisingly profound portrait of an artist, and all the more affecting for the connections made to the emotion and humanism of his work.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Oct 4, 2017 Full Review Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Fans of the man, who arguably invented post-modern observational comedy "about nothing" (and yet about everything), will be delighted by the set-up.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Oct 4, 2017 Full Review Tour De Pharmacy (2017) 90% 3/5 EDIT “None of it is especially effective as satire, either - apart from a throwaway reference to how boring some of the race can be. But Tour De Pharmacy is good for a giggle or three.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jul 18, 2017 Full Review Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) 100% EDIT “The film may not be revelatory as an expose of two Hollywood icons, but as a celebration of love and resilience as captured in the smallest moments of their lives, it is remarkable.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Jan 11, 2017 Full Review Before the Flood (2016) 76% EDIT “Fatally, the film cannot make up its mind who its target audience is.” – The Straits Times (Singapore) Nov 2, 2016 Full Review
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