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The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China.
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Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026
With all that activity, small-time Helsinki took off, becoming a boomtown in support of the grand strategic fort.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
In Romania, the Tates turned their small-time webcam enterprise into a kind of industrial operation.
—Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Stallone stars as Rocky Balboa, a small-time Philly boxer who gets hand-picked to fight the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed (Weathers), for an unlikely shot at the belt.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
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Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026
With all that activity, small-time Helsinki took off, becoming a boomtown in support of the grand strategic fort.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
In Romania, the Tates turned their small-time webcam enterprise into a kind of industrial operation.
—Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Stallone stars as Rocky Balboa, a small-time Philly boxer who gets hand-picked to fight the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed (Weathers), for an unlikely shot at the belt.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small-time. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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