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Francis Ng

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IFFR 2026

Reviews from the 2026 edition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival

The Prosecutor (Donnie Yen, 2024)

The Prosecutor (Donnie Yen, 2024)

A Donnie Yen courtroom drama may seem like an ominous way to kick off the year in film 2025, but this is the world we’ve made for ourselves and we must go to where the movies are. Probably inspired by recent films like A Guilty Conscience and The Sparring

Death Notice (Herman Yau, 2023)

Death Notice (Herman Yau, 2023)

The fourth 2023 Herman Yau film to come across my digital transom (I’m still searching for the fifth film he released last year, Customs Frontline) is the one most like an actual movie. While The White Storm 3 was a depressing rehash of undercover cop movie tropes (before exploding

Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)

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Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan, 1999 and 2000)

The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)

The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)

After a few rough years at the start of his Milkyway Image studio, producing great movies that never really caught on at the box office, and constantly at odds with his subordinate directors, in 1999 Johnnie To just decided to give up the pretense and begin directing most of his

Goldbuster (Sandra Ng, 2017)

Goldbuster (Sandra Ng, 2017)

In her directorial debut, veteran comic actress Sandra Ng gives us a goofy farce, a compendium of horror movie tropes and references, and a sappy tribute to the underdog spirit of Hong Kong’s working class in the days of hyper-capitalism and real estate speculation. She plays a ghostbuster hired