Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.

Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.

Shu Qi’s transformation into Artiste is complete, with her debut feature Girl.

Measure in Love tells a story of inequality and environmental collapse through a romantic lens. Mileage will mos def vary.

Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo makes the urban legend shocker an official sub-genre.

Organ Child may not be the worst, but it’s surely the stupidest movie of the year so far.

The Uniform is a love triangle melodrama first, class-based education piss-take second.

Once Upon a Lie wants us all to understand that Irene Wan’s still got “it”.

Pierce is a clinic in how even the best ingredients can spoil the soup.

Aside from positing 38 is practically dead, Salli is an inoffensive coming of romantic age drama.

Still not sure who they are in Them, Behind the Door.

Hou Hsiao-hsien protégé Huang Xi’s multi-generational drama Daughter’s Daughter is a classic woman’s picture.

Yen and Ai-lee looks great but it’s kind of an empty vessel.

It's unsexy times all around in The Chronicles of Libidoists.

Taiwanese director Leading Li goes back in time for his LGBTQ genre mash-up, The Time of Huan Nan.

China has it’s anonymously located thrillers, Taiwan has haunted buildings. Exhibit F: Mystery Writers.

Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.

Ado-rom! That’s it. 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days is a better adolescent romance than most.

Love is a Gun is artsy enough for Critics’ Week. Do with that what you will.

Yes, there’s a death, but Blue Lan’s coming-of-age dramedy After School carries a welcome respite from LGBTQ+ misery.