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Since the Jackie Chan/John Cena buddy film has already been released overseas, many are hoping that Hidden Strike news will surface regarding a potential US release date. Originally titled Snafu, many thought the Chan and Cena-led film would never release since production wrapped in 2018, and then news promptly went silent. However, after various setbacks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Hidden Strike finally premiered overseas on July 6th and 7th, 2023. A 2023 release window was teased for quite a while, and audiences finally have a definitive answer for when Hidden Strike will hit the US.

Hidden Strike news reports that the movie will see special forces veterans Luo Feng (Chan) and Chris Van Horne (Cena) escort a group of civilians across Baghdad's "Highway of Death" to make it to the safety of the Green Zone. Meanwhile, the villainous Owen Paddock attempts to pull off the biggest oil heist in history. Before it was titled Snafu,...

It is somehow emblematic of modern China — at least of its seamier side, as frequently explored in director Wang Bing’s unsparing documentaries — that the street on which his long, oppressive new film “Youth (Spring)” takes place should be called “Happiness Road.” A collection of clothing manufacturing workshops, arranged like a mall around a rubble-strewn central thoroughfare 150 miles and a world away from Shanghai, this semi-derelict location is so poorly described by its name that one could suspect its planners of having a little joke. Except that here in Zhili City, irony — like leisure time, fresh air and natural light — is a luxury few can afford, least of all the teens and twentysomethings spending 15-hour workdays on site before retiring to equally rundown flophouse dormitories.

Scored only to the ceaseless rattle of sewing machines and the pop songs blasted through the studios at top volume, “Youth (Spring)” follows a dozen...