Yoji Yamada’s latest could probably warm the ice coldest of hearts.

Ha! Wall Street gets a taste of its own poison in Dumb Money.

Dark’s Louis Hofmann travels back in time to play the ballsy title figure of The Forger.

Léa Seydoux is an absolute star in Mia Hansen-Løve’s sexy, smart, mid-life drama, One Fine Morning.

Note: Au Cheuk-man’s very dramatic Stand Up Story has hardly any stand up comedy in it.

Daishi Matsunaga takes on seminal Japanese LGBTQ+ novel Egoist and does not embarrass himself.

If you don’t already know Kenji Miyazawa, you won’t know him after Father of the Milky Way Railroad.

Go watch Blue Giant and listen to it.

Adele Lim’s Joy Ride is straight up funny AF, whether you’re Asian, American, female, male or other.

Just… see Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria for yourself.

Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with the semi-autobiographical Past Lives. You might want tissues.

Lee Byung-hun gets grimy in Um Tae-hwa’s drama-disaster Concrete Utopia. Note the drama.

Smart or too smart? Amos Why dives into the mobile world in Everyphone Everywhere.

Drop Barbenheimer for a hot sec and pick up Macau director Hong Heng-fai’s Kissing The Ground You Walked On.

Finally! Christopher Nolan lives up to his technical prowess with Oppenheimer. And we can hear it.

Seriously, what’s with the creepy romances? Next up: Phases of the Moon.

Chow Yun-fat stops gambling his life away in Anthony Pun’s paean to kindness, One More Chance.

For peak Kore-eda go find Shoplifters. Monster isn’t quite there.

If you find Wes Anderson films insufferable, Asteroid City won’t disabuse you of that notion.

Do you actually think Both Sides of the Blade’s love triangle, as interpreted by Claire Denis, will be simple?