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Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: October 6-12

A biopic and a documentary on the dangers of government surveillance, an action-packed thriller, a wuxia masterpiece, and a quirky Woody Allen project make up our must-see list

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Oliver Stone’s Snowden.

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1. Snowden

Mindful that an Oscar-winning documentary, Citizenfour , has already done a marvellous job at capturing the emergence of the national security whistle-blower, Oliver Stone instead opts for a humanising biopic, boosted by a charismatic turn by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Opens on October 6)
Blake Lively (left) and Jesse Eisenberg in Café Society.
Blake Lively (left) and Jesse Eisenberg in Café Society.

2. Café Society

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The bad reviews for Woody Allen’s new sitcom for Amazon, Crisis in Six Scenes, at least serve as yet another reminder that we should no longer take his odd good films for granted. And this nostalgic romance, set in the 1930s, is certainly one of the best of his recent films. (Now showing)

Zhang Hanyu in a still from Operation Mekong.
Zhang Hanyu in a still from Operation Mekong.
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