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Edmund Lee

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1. Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg’s second film to open in Hong Kong cinemas in two months, this exuberant adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel is at once a nostalgia-tinted homage to pop culture of decades past and a visually enchanting peek into a future world saturated with virtual reality. It is pure cinematic magic. (Opens on March 29)


2. Custody
A nerve-racking portrait of a family torn apart by domestic abuse, this debut feature from French actor-director Xavier Legrand takes an unflinching look at the aftermath of a joint custody hearing, where a mother and her young son confront the spectre of the family’s violent former patriarch. (Opens on March 29)


3. Unsane
Claire Foy gives a fascinating turn in Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot psychological thriller, playing a woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution alongside a man who may just be her obsessive stalker. This is a raw and powerful performance from the British star of The Crown. (Now showing)


4. Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
A young woman’s night of drinking spans seasons and spawns countless adventures in this mind-bending animation by Japanese director Masaaki Yuasa, adapted from a campus novel. It is a wacky mix of romance, detection, philosophy and fantasy that hops through genres and situations in outlandish fashion. (Now showing)


5. Pacific Rim: Uprising
Set 10 years after the end of the Kaiju war, this sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi original sees Star Wars’ John Boyega join the Jaegar pilot programme and face a new group of towering monsters. The surprise here is Chinese actress Jing Tian, who indeed impresses as the head of a corporation bringing in Jaeger drones. (Opens on March 29)
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Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on The Post, fastest film director has ever made, and sci-fi movie Ready Player One

The 71-year-old filmmaker is well known for having projects overlap, most disconcertingly when he worked simultaneously on Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park. His latest two-step is a classic journalism tale and a virtual-reality spectacular

Tye Sheridan in a still from Ready Player One.

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 13, 2018 shows (From L) US film director Steven Spielberg, US actress Meryl Streep and US actor Tom Hanks, attending the premiere of The Pentagon Papers (The Post) in Paris. In a time where journalists are accused of promoting "fake news", Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks use the popularity of Hollywood to promote the press and media in the world with their new film "Pentagon Papers". The film will be shown in French cinemas from January 24, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZ

A still from The Post.

Meryl Streep in a still from The Post.

Meryl Streep, director Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on the set of The Post. Photo: Niko Tavernise

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A Spielberg 1980s pop culture sci-fi homage, a French dysfunctional family drama, a horror film shot on an iPhone, an outlandish Japanese anime and a Hollywood monsters vs robots film are the cinematic picks for this week
