Review

Satoshi Kimura’s coming-of-age comedy is slow, strange, talky, and sometimes so determined to play against obvious pleasure that it practically...

Tokyo Taxi is sentimental. There’s no point pretending otherwise. But sentimentality, in Yamada’s hands, can still have texture.

'Sato and Sato' works because Kishii and Miyazawa keep the film from becoming a thesis with apartment clutter.

Exit 8 doesn’t try to run away from its origins, unlike many video game adaptations before it.

Whisperings of the Moon is deceptively unassuming, eschewing overt style and scope in favour of a grounded approach to a...

Two Seasons, Two Strangers is less concerned with structure than with embracing moments.

'Mabel' is like a crayon drawing composed of straightforward yet vividly colored lines, succeeding in evoking something more than the...

A fairly entertaining 6-episode dramedy that allows Ahmed to be unflinching, unfiltered, and unapologetic about showing the struggle and toll...

★★★ Someone check on Trấn Thành. The writer-director dissects and dismembers relationships and love with such decisive precision, I can...

The film’s narrative prowess comes from its unique integration of documentary and fictional storytelling, creating a cinematic vernacular that is...