Taika Waititi is clearly a very, very tired filmmaker if Next Goal Wins is any indication.

Russell the Younger and debuting director Bryce McGuire almost pull off a perfect pool routine in Night Swim. Almost.

The highs, the lows, the little things that shaped the year in cinema in Hong Kong.

Would you like Nicolas Cage invading your dreams? If so the cancel culture satire Dream Scenario is for you.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi cuts it short for Evil Does Not Exist, but still manages to pack a wallop. A cryptic one.

The best movie of 2023 hasn’t come out here yet, so here’s to the Year of the Dragon starting with a bang.

Felix Chong, Tony Leung and Andy Lau should be a cocktail for a great thriller. The Goldfinger is… okay.

Why is 3D back? If you want to see anything in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, see it in 2D.

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.