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Yasmine Chan is a Netherlands‑based film critic and programmer specialising in Asian cinema and socially engaged film criticism. She participated in the Far East Film Festival Campus in 2026 and London East Asia Film Festival Young Critics Programme in 2021.

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Movie review: We Are All Strangers | easternkicks.com

Movie review: We Are All Strangers | easternkicks.com

An intimate look at how class and obligation shape love in modern Singapore... We Are All Strangers opens in …

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28th Far East Film Festival: "Ghost in the Cell" Review

28th Far East Film Festival: "Ghost in the Cell" Review

In a prison in Indonesia, a mysterious ghost begins brutally killing inmates, arranging their mutilated bodie…

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Eye on Hong Kong cinema

Eye on Hong Kong cinema

A dozen Hong Kong films, cutting across genres, themes and sensibilities, claimed the spotlight at the recent…

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Movie review: We're Nothing at All | easternkicks.com

Movie review: We're Nothing at All | easternkicks.com

A raw portrait of Hong Kong where love, rage and survival collide... A double-decker bus leaves its stop and …

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Filmmaker Herman Yau and Anson Kong on the bleak humanity of "We're Nothing at All" - Hashtag Leg...

Filmmaker Herman Yau and Anson Kong on the bleak humanity of "We're Nothing at All" - Hashtag Leg...

Herman Yau and Anson Kong took their new socially conscious thriller "We're Nothing at All" to this year's Fa…

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Movie review: Romancing in Thin Air | easternkicks.com

Movie review: Romancing in Thin Air | easternkicks.com

Learn to breathe and live on your own terms when love suffocates you in this Johnnie To romantic melodrama...…

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Movie review: Human Resource

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By Yasmine Chan
| EasternKicks
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit explores choice and responsibility in an emotionally detached workplace drama… Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s latest feature, Human Resource, opens with an arresting 1-minute freeze-frame of an ultrasound image. The looming dread as I wait for something to happen shall soon be felt throughout the movie.
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Romancing in Thin Air

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By Yasmine Chan
| EasternKicks
Learn to breathe and live on your own terms when love suffocates you in this Johnnie To romantic melodrama… Best known for defining Hong Kong’s post-handover action and crime cinema, Johnnie To never limits himself to one genre. Despite being widely revered amongst local fans, To’s romantic films do not seem to receive as much love outside of Hong Kong, perhaps because they don’t always translate well for an overseas audience.
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Mother Mary (review) – a woman trying to reconcile who she is with the version of herself that everyone else seems to recognise

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By Yasmine Chan
| Cinerama Film Online
David Lowery’s Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway as a pop star and Michaela Coel as her (former) costume designer, examines what it means to become a “mother” and to live inside a role that has already been defined for you. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Like most chronically online people, I’ve come across phrases like “she’s so mother” and “mother is mothering” more times than I can count.
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