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‘Forge’ Review: Jing Ai Ng Puts a Fresh Coat of Paint on a Satisfying Crime Caper
A stylish thriller involving Chinese American siblings with a lot to prove becomes a convincing showcase for star Andie Ju and director Jing Ai Ng.
In “ Forge,” writer-director Jing Ai Ng never reveals the secret recipe for the lacquer that has made it possible for Raymond (Brandon Soo Hoo) and Coco Zhang ( Andie Ju) to pass off their replicas of fine art as the real thing. His younger sister Coco, a former art student who eventually had to leave her studies to take care of her ailing father, can speak with authority to the depth of every brushstroke of the artists she learned about, making the act of actually putting it down on canvas entirely natural. There is some occasionally clunky expositional dialogue and contrivances in service of the plot, particularly when it comes to the FBI agent in the art crimes unit, gamely played by Kelly Marie Tran, attempting to figure out the source of the forgeries flooding Florida in recent months.
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