Time Out's review of Tsui Hark's 1992 Hong Kong film, in which the folk hero Wong Fei hung confronts a xenophobic fictional secret society, the White Lotus Clan, during the Boxer era. Its strength is that it reads the film's antagonists as a deliberate commentary on East West relations and China's political stability rather than as a simple villain. Its limit is that it is a short capsule review, not a sustained historical or religious studies analysis of the real White Lotus tradition the film fictionalizes.
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Citation
AuthorTime Out (staff review, bylined "TR")
PublisherTime Out
URLhttps://www.timeout.com/london/film/once-upon-a-time-in-china-ii
Source Typemagazine feature
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Time Out is an established listings and criticism magazine whose film review archive is read as a publication of record for cinema criticism in London; this is one of its own staff bylined capsule reviews rather than a reader submission. Connections
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Source Time Out, Review of Once Upon a Time in China IITime Out (staff review, bylined "TR")
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