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House of Gucci (M18)

Starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek

Directed by Ridley Scott​​​​​​​If House of Gucci were likened to a luxury shopping mall, then Lady Gaga would be the anchor tenant: everything orbits her firecracker performance as Patrizia Reggiani, the scorned socialite convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband and scion of the titular fashion empire Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). Despite the marathon runtime and stellar ensemble, the rest of Ridley Scott’s true-crime soap opera is strangely inert and superficial. It’s funny, though. But not in a good way: occasionally, the faux Italian accents threaten to turn it into an extended Saturday Night Live sketch — with a huge costume budget. (2.5/5 stars)

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G Storm (PG)

Starring Louis Koo, Julian Cheung, Kevin Cheng, Jessica Hsuan, Bosco Wong, Michael Tse

Directed by David Lam​​​​​​​The latest (maybe last?) entry in the Storm series is brought to you by the letter G, which stands for G4, a Hongkong Police Force branch tasked with guarding dignitaries. Following an incident overseas (stock footage of Singapore standing in for the fictional W City), the Louis Koo-led Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) take on human traffickers! The casting of Koo’s rumoured paramour Jessica Hsuan as a human rights advocate targeted by the baddies is the most interesting part of this lower-tier crime thriller with the unremarkable trappings of a glorified TV movie and the grating China censors-friendly epilogue. Pass. (1.5/5 stars)

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The Matrix Resurrections (PG13)

Starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick

Directed by Lana Wachowski“Our beloved parent company, Warner Brothers, has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy,” one character quips. It’s one of the funniest lines in The Matrix Resurrections that says it all: this is one epic meta-joke. In resurrecting Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss’ characters, Neo and Trinity — both were killed in The Matrix Revolutions 18 years ago — it raises questions about its own existence. (Just like Space Jam: A New Legacy, also a WarnerMedia product.) But do you come for the cheem philosophy or the cool action? It has too much of the former, too little of the latter. (2.5/5 stars)

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