Movie Reviews
'The Torment of Ghost': Film Review | Filmart 2019
Huy Yaleng's horror movie charts a criminal tycoon's downfall as he struggles with nightmares in which he is tortured by a former Khmer Rouge cadre.
'Fallen' ('Nak-in'): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Present and future collide in writer-director Lee Jeong-sub’s twisting, ambitious oddball scifi feature debut.
'Blue Hour' ('Buru Awa ni Buttobasu'): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Kaho and Shim Eun-kyung star as two friends visiting a provincial city in Japanese filmmaker Yuko Hakota's first full-length feature.
'Dogs in the House' ('Cheongchunbilla dalinsageon'): Film Review | Filmart 2019
A murder plot gone awry curdles from comedy into tragedy in Shin Hae-gang’s quasi-home invasion thriller, starring Kim Young-ho and a surprising Lee Seung-hyun.
'Territory of Love' ('L'Autre Continent'): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Déborah François and Paul Hamy star in Romain Cogitore's Franco-Taiwanese romantic drama.
'Porno': Film Review | SXSW 2019
The Christian employees of a small-town movie theater find themselves battling a sexy succubus in Keola Racela's raunchy horror film.
'Tales From the Lodge': Film Review | SXSW 2019
Old friends entertain each other with scary stories in Abigail Blackmore's horror-comedy anthology film.
'The Mystery of Henri Pick' ('Le Mystere Henri Pick'): Film Review
Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin star in Remi Bezancon's adaptation of the 2016 novel by 'Delicacy' writer David Foenkinos.
'Orphans' Blues': Film Review | Filmart 2019
Japanese filmmaker Riho Kudo's road movie, about a young amnesiac's attempt to find an estranged childhood friend, won the Grand Prize of the indie-oriented Pia Film Festival in Tokyo in the fall.
'My Little One': Film Review | Filmart 2019