Maybe it’s us. Abang Adik isn’t quite the revelation we’re being sold.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s anti-hero character study, About Dry Grasses, should have been about its antagonist.

The Bridge Curse 2: Ritual has a bad case of sequelitis.

There’s nothing wrong with either but The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is for olds and Anglophiles only.

Coup de Chance is a Woody Allen movie. I don’t think any other details are required.

Zhang Mo carries on the fast emerging trend of Macau as a dangerous, fictional SEA quasi-Chinese city in the bananas Last Suspect.

Ann Hui’s appropriately titled Elegies makes us wonder who she’s eulogising.

In truth, Sound of Freedom isn’t that Jesusy. It’s also not that good.

The latest Ridley Scott Epic™, Napoleon, sure does look great…

Will you look at that. The Hunger Games prequel is 2/3s better than the OG series.

Horror maestro Eli Roth steps behind the camera again for a gory spin on that most singular of US holidays, Thanksgiving.

Nick Cheuk makes his debut with the rightly provocative Time Still Turns The Pages.

The Marvels does not live up to its title. Except for the cats.

Tstuomu Hanabusa wraps up the Tokyo Revengers live action adaptation in flat style.

The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon is out of its damn mind. But in a good way.

Lawrence Kan delivers Hong Kong’s own Spotlight with In Broad Daylight and delivers props to journos while he’s at it.

Come for the animatronics… not sure why to stay beyond that.

Shunji Iwai strikes again. If you dig Iwai, have at it.

Jonathan Li reteams with producer Soi Cheang and star Gordon Lam for nihilism-lite, in Dust to Dust.

Go read chapter 7 of Dracula, come back and watch The Last Voyage of the Demeter.