If you’ve seen a Zhang Yimou movie in the last two decades, you’ve seen Full River Red.

Sammi Cheng flexes her acting chops in debuting director Ka Sing-fung’s family foster drama Lost Love.

Makoto Shinkai aims for Miyazaki’s throne but still comes up a bit short with Suzume. Just a bit.

Empire of Light basks in the glow of the movies. Go see The Fabelmans.

Belgian director Lukas Dhont follows up Girl with Close, and asks why boys can’t get, well, close.

Cocaine. A bear. It’s Cocaine Bear. The title is really all you need to know.

It’s not just an American/Canadian/Australian screw up. Laha Mebow explores indigenous life in Taiwan in GAGA.

Searching 2: Siri to the Rescue would be a better title for the entertaining, if familiar, Missing.

Blows is a good word with which to describe the long-delayed crime epic Where The Wind Blows.

At least Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania comes in under two hours. That’s something?

Director Davy Chou explores adoption, identity and the military-industrial complex (!) in Return to Seoul.

Whisper of the Heart’s second adaptation is as misguided as it is gauzy and predictable.

Frant Gwo cements a billion-dollar soft power franchise with The Wandering Earth II.

Todd Field’s Tár goes way, way, way beyond simply being a movie about so-called ‘cancel culture’.

Huh? No twist in M Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin? Nope, just old fashioned tension.

Your favourite Korean television stars are swapping lives in the too-late-for-the season Switch.

Hostage-chic continues in Yim Soon-rye’s The Point Men.

Mabel Cheung turns documentarian for her portrait of a Ying Wa generation in To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self.

Yes, guy! Plane is Gerard Butler’s annual late winter punch-up, and it’s one of his best.

Let’s see… Watch Boogie Nights again or try Babylon? Boogie Nights all the way.