The Solitary Gourmet is one part food movie, one part travelogue, all TV series.

True Love, for Once In My Life could be the definition of current Hong Kong cinema.

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is all the cinema.

Bong Joon-ho still hates the rich, but he adds demagogues to the mix in Mickey 17.

Aside from positing 38 is practically dead, Salli is an inoffensive coming of romantic age drama.

Angelina Jolie closes Pablo Larrain’s bad bitch trilogy in Maria, but she’s not the baddest.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy signals an ending. Thankfully.

Living in Two Worlds means well, but that doesn’t make it particularly exciting.

Hong Kong really isn’t the place for Emmanuelle’s sexual hijinks, unless luxury hotels turn you on.

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a meditation on death that’s really about life.

Wuershan is two-for-two with Creation of the Gods Ii: Demon Force and damn, did he just promise zombies?

Italy’s 2023 box office champ There’s Still Tomorrow and director Paola Cortellesi have a few things to say. Sit down, Barbie.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa almost gets there in his grey market, online mob screed Cloud. Almost.

We Live in Time is standard romantic tearjerker fare. But at least it has Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.

Jill Leung drops another time-and-space bending romance in Last Song for You, and holy crap it works.

Here isn’t Forrest Gump II, but it might as well be.

Conclave is a religious thriller about an election, so there’s plenty of backstabbing and manipulation.

Hou Hsiao-hsien protégé Huang Xi’s multi-generational drama Daughter’s Daughter is a classic woman’s picture.

Jia Zhangke heads back to his favourite wells in Caught by the Tides.

Strange Darling runs the cat-and-mouse serial killer genre through a sexual politics blender. It’s fabulous.