NYAFF 2022: RIBBON Review
Ribbon is the COVID-anxiety drama that uses the plot device of getting too close for comfort effectively.
Ribbon is the COVID-anxiety drama that uses the plot device of getting too close for comfort effectively.
Lesson in Murder is a slickly executed, twisty serial killer drama that occasionally forgets where its strengths are.
Any movie aiming to dramatize the laborious nature of film production inevitably strikes upon the same universally accepted truism about the onerous process that has brought many a film crew to the point of despair. For those with any production experience, it
The New York Asian Film Festival will be kicking off its 19th year virtually for 2020, and today the full lineup of titles have been revealed.
Running August 28 to September 12, this year’s festival will feature 51 films from 10 locales,
It is not everyday you walk away from a film and think the 30-minute, one-take aspect is the least interesting about it, but it is rings true for Ueda's layered horror comedy experience.
Winter After Winter has substance but not enough activity makes it a mostly tepid watch.
Maggie is a puzzling oddity whose creative aimlessness endears itself to its head-scratching audience.
#NYAFF Review: Deftly tapping into a common Millennial anxiety, 5 MILLION DOLLAR LIFE is a sardonic, existential exploration of one's value in society.
Like some kind of badass Vietnamese version of Taken, Le-Van Kiet’s Furie brings fast, fluid action with a heavy dose of style to make it a martial arts bonanza that’s not one to be missed.
A fresh take on the tired zombie formula, played with enjoyable farcicality by a standout cast, makes The Odd Family: Zombie for Sale an absurdist delight.
By exploring the small overlaps between, and coincidences among, the stories of complete strangers, Jam fails to become as good as the sum of its parts.
Full of gratuitous eye candy, White Snake is a derivative exercise that wrongly believes overloading itself with style and action can sustain yet another take on the ancient Chinese legend.
Bolstered by its strong performances from Yoon-seok and Ji-hoon, Dark Figure of Crime is an enthralling and well crafted true-crime thriller.
Sporadic and disheveled, The Fatal Raid is a film without a voice that throws everything at the screen with no discernible structure.
Walk With Me just misses the mark in being an effective and thought-provoking thriller that perhaps would have benefitted from a tighter script and different editing choices.
While trying to sell you on the maverick, anarchist sensibilities of its central subjects, Dare to Stop Us slots itself into standardized yet serviceable biopic formula.