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2025
Documentaries
Review: “Lisa Lu Plays Herself” Is an Uneditorialized Jumble of Interviews and Archival Footage
By
Brian Hioe
Indonesia
Review: “This City is a Battlefield” Serves Steamy Romance Amidst Indonesian Revolution
By
Anthony Kao
Taiwan
Review: Taiwan’s “Unexpected Courage” Melodramatically Heroicizes Childbirth
By
Brian Hioe
Japan
Review: “Escape” Imagines the Isolation of a Famed Japanese Terrorist
By
Brian Hioe