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IFFR 2026

Reviews from the 2026 edition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024)

Even though it sounds like one of those straight-to-iQiyi action movies, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is in fact one of the most highly anticipated Hong Kong films in years. As a star-studded period piece, it might have fallen in to the trap of so many recent films in

Where the Wind Blows (Philip Yung, 2022)

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Where the Wind Blows (Philip Yung, 2022)

The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell (Herman Yau, 2023)

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The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell (Herman Yau, 2023)

Saviour of the Soul I & II (Corey Yuen, David Lai, & Jeffrey Lau, 1991 & 1992)

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Saviour of the Soul I & II (Corey Yuen, David Lai, & Jeffrey Lau, 1991 & 1992)

The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To, 1993)

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The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To, 1993)

The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The latest in director Soi Cheang’s saga inspired by the classic novel Journey to the West might be the strangest one yet. The franchise blockbuster has always been a weird fit for the former director of indie horror movies and slick crime dramas, and Cheang’s first Monkey King

One Night Only (Matt Wu, 2016)

One Night Only (Matt Wu, 2016)

An Aaron Kwok movie is opening on Seattle Screens for the second time in three weeks, as the now venerable pop star/actor follows up his taciturn performance as the cooly rational police bureaucrat in Cold War 2 with a turn as a compulsive gambler with unresolved family issues in

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2016)

Longman Leung and Sunny Luk

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2016)

Picking up right where their 2012 hit film, which featured an all-star cast and swept the Hong Kong Film Awards, left off, Longman Leung and Sunny Luk present another suspenseful tale of corruption and double-dealing in the highest echelons of the Hong Kong police department, its two institutional halves at

Cold War (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2012)

Longman Leung and Sunny Luk

Cold War (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2012)

In a slick chrome and black Hong Kong, two halves of the police force war with each other over methods and tactics. One one side: the operations department – active, aggressive, channeling the “we break the law to enforce the law” ethos celebrated in HK films since at least the mid