Four-Flushers - By Donald Levit The second of Hong Konger Johnnie To’s back-to-back releases is better than its mate. Exiled/Fong juk may lack the 2006 New York Film Festival pedigree of Triad Election but is the more appealing of the two, in its good-natured combining of, on one hand, honorable... MORE >>
Bullet the Blue Sky - By Adam Hakari I admire Hong Kong director Johnnie To's eagerness to bring the crime genre out of the doldrums of mere gunplay, but his latest feature, Exiled, is a real kick in the pants. One of my biggest cinematic pet peeves involves a movie just flat-out doing nothing... MORE >>