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Taiwan

Review: Taiwan Comedy-Drama “Mama Boy” Adequately Explores Mother-Son Relations

By Brian Hioe

China

Review: Black Comedy “Manchurian Tiger” Paints Absurdist Picture of Working-class Life in Northern China

By Brian Hioe

Taiwan

Review: “Life for Sale” Offers a Stylized and Complex Exploration of Mortality

By Brian Hioe

Hong Kong

Review: Hong Kong Sports Biopic “Zero to Hero” is Safe, Unlike its Trailblazing Subject

By Justin Chor Yu Liu

Taiwan

Review: Taiwan’s “The Funeral” Tries Mixing Family With Thrills and Horror

By Brian Hioe

Hong Kong

Review: Hong Kong Neo-noir “Limbo” Is Dark in More Ways Than One

By Justin Chor Yu Liu

China

Review: “Before Next Spring” Humanizes the Lives of Chinese Students in Japan

By Brian Hioe

Taiwan

Review: “Demigod: The Legend Begins” Breathes New Life Into Taiwanese Puppetry

By Brian Hioe

Hong Kong

Review: Hong Kong Biopic “Anita” Merely Strives for Mediocrity

By Justin Chor Yu Liu

China

Review: Chinese Animation “I Am What I Am” Tells A Working-Class Lion Dance Story

By Brian Hioe

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