MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Who’s This Now?
If you don’t already know Kenji Miyazawa, you won’t know him after Father of the Milky Way Railroad.
Butleeerrr!
G.But is back already, and until he gives us our Den of Thieves sequel, we’ve got Kandahar.
More than Equal
Third time’s a charm for the Fuqua-Washington whup-ass team in the satisfying The Equalizer 3.
Save Yourselves
People, we have a contender for 2023’s biggest turkey. I give you: Onpaku.
Riding High
Adele Lim’s Joy Ride is straight up funny AF, whether you’re Asian, American, female, male or other.
Mucky Suds
Taiwanese director Giddens Ko rounds up his usual suspects for the kooky gangster rom-com Miss Shampoo.
Ode to Odes
Fire up the metronome. The Chinese animated blockbuster Chang An makes poets kick ass.
‘Past’ Present
Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with the semi-autobiographical Past Lives. You might want tissues.
Paradise Lost
Lee Byung-hun gets grimy in Um Tae-hwa’s drama-disaster Concrete Utopia. Note the drama.
Don’t Call Me…
Smart or too smart? Amos Why dives into the mobile world in Everyphone Everywhere.
‘Ninja’ stars
Wait, is this... is this good? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem reboots the old franchise to ace effect.
An Acquired Taste
Mirror is just so 2022. Here’s comes Error with YUM Investigation, a little 1982.
Going in Circles
If you played the “game” Gran Turismo, you may want to go back to the game Gran Turismo.
Over-built
This isn’t the hot mess we expected, but Haunted Mansion suffers from the ‘more is just more’ syndrome.