‘The Wedding Banquet’ is Less Like a Feast and More Like a Cosy Potluck

Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet gets a millennial-era refresh in the 2025 reimagining by Andrew Ahn.

‘The Gangster’s Daughter’ Avoids Tropes and a Committed Direction

Mei-Juin Chen chooses to float in tepid middle ground that’s too tame for its own good.

Riar Rizaldi’s Cryptic Indonesian Docufiction ‘Monisme’ Is a Fascinating Avant-Garde Take on the Conceptual Film

A cinematic meditation that avoids straying too far into the experimental or essayistic.

‘Exhuma’ Unearths More Than Bones

Jang Jae-hyun’s 'Exhuma' unearths more than a haunted grave—it digs into the roots of Korean history and the uneasy truce ...

‘Queerpanorama’ Asserts Beauty in Gay Hook-Up Culture

Jun Li’s Queerpanorama turns its lens on the very beauty of gay hook-up culture, asking: is a connection less honest ...

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