MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Desu… Janai Desu-ka?
Mamoru Hosoda’s ambitious Scarlet doesn’t come close to Hamlet’s depth or storytelling grace.
Raising Something
Bi Gan’s Resurrection goes down a very, very, very deep Cannes rabbit hole.
Good Enough
Wicked: For Good may not be the surprising jolt that Wicked was, but it’s got its moments.
Half ‘Measure’
Measure in Love tells a story of inequality and environmental collapse through a romantic lens. Mileage will mos def vary.
Lost in the Woods
Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo makes the urban legend shocker an official sub-genre.
Devil’s in the Details
If ever a movie were critic-proof, it’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.
Tangled Web
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy is a B movie dressed up like a franchise tentpole.
If It Ain’t Broke…
Nothing with G.But is truly bad and the live action How to Train Your Dragon beats Disney at its own game.
More Like Untenable
A power-trio of young Japanese actors headlines Unreachable and is almost entirely wasted.
Time, and Time Again
First Kiss sends Takako Matsu back in time to save her marriage in yet another time-bending romance.
All is ‘Lost’
Anderson and Jovovich together again, for the 417th time in In The Lost Lands.
Billion Dollar Baby
Well, there’s certainly more movie in Jiaozi’s billion-dollar grossing Ne Zha 2.
The Empire Strikes Again
Wuershan is two-for-two with Creation of the Gods Ii: Demon Force and damn, did he just promise zombies?
Very Vincible
Invincible Swordsman is indeed a movie, with, like, actors and stuff, and Zzzzz…