Deliverance is a movie.

Michael Mann takes a detour from his usual stylish road for a biopic about the creator of the ultimate midlife crisis toy in Ferrari.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

That other Korean director, Kim Jee-woon, goes back to his comedy roots to send up the movies in Cobweb.

It’s hard to recommend a film where the star is a dick, but we’ll make an exception for Christrian Petzold’s Afire.

Exhibit A in why Martin Scorsese gets to dis Marvel: Killers of the Flower Moon.

Andy Lau proves why he’s a damn movie star in The Movie Emperor.

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