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ENTERTAINMENT BEYOND NOSTALGIA
Tempo
|December 25, 2025
"Manila's Finest” delivers on the promise of its trailer: a beautifully mounted portrait of 1960s Manila that feels more elegiac than nostalgic.
Director Raymond Red painstakingly recreates the period with care, from police uniforms and jeepneys to the rhythm of the streets.
Set in 1969, the film unfolds during a time of growing unrest: student activism, political uncertainty, and shifting power within the police force.
At the center is Piolo Pascual's Captain Homer Magtibay, a chain-smoking, vinyl-loving policeman who appears upright and dependable, but slowly reveals a life shaped by compromise.
This story is from the December 25, 2025 edition of Tempo.
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