The Chinese noir boom chugs along, this time with Wei Shujun’s Only The River Flows. It’s less bonkers than some.

I wish… I wish… Disney would go back to the old days and do better than Wish.

Yes, there’s a death, but Blue Lan’s coming-of-age dramedy After School carries a welcome respite from LGBTQ+ misery.

Capa Xin aims for a dissection of modern media but ends up with a social media spanking in Trending Topic.

If Hayao Miyazaki is going out after The Boy and the Heron, it’s not quite with a whimper, but it certainly isn’t a bang.

The real masterstroke of Todd Haynes’ May December is making a woman who groomed a teen compelling.

Holy crap, Wonka is actually a delight and that monster at WB didn’t hide it from us.

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.