MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Mythology ≠ HIstory
All Wishes Come True! is Ocean’s 8 in ancient China and man, does that work like a charm.
Back in Time
If you wished introducing your partner to your parents could have gone better, Back to Love will speak to you.
Dear, Dear, Dear
This year Chinese box office phenom, Dear You, is the weirdest box office phenom in a good long while.
Still Too Soon
Guan Hu loses the plot in A Man and A Woman, the year’s most tedious non-romance so far.
What Finish Line?
Pegasus 3 is exactly the same movie as Pegasus and Pegasus 2, so at least there’s no disappointment.
Warning: Too Many Zooms
It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.
Blades of Glory
Hey, Blades of the Guardians lured Jet Li out of hiding, if only for a few minutes. Better than zero.
Bird Brained
Sam Quah’s at it again, wading into another Asian Hellhole in The Fire Raven.
Raising Something
Bi Gan’s Resurrection goes down a very, very, very deep Cannes rabbit hole.
Odd Man Out
Come to Against All Odds for a lost WWII resistance tale, stay for Louise Wong with a flamethrower.
A Watery Grave
Third time is not the charm for Dante Lam’s ‘Operation’ series because Operation Hadal is a mess.
Fresh Fruit
Somehow, Da Peng has made what might be the world’s first fruit thriller in The Lychee Road.
Sand Blasted
Zhang Qi’s neo-western noir-thriller Trapped comes really close to greatness.
Billion Dollar Baby
Well, there’s certainly more movie in Jiaozi’s billion-dollar grossing Ne Zha 2.