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Kaiser Khan is Founder & Editor of Celluloid and founder of Elite Digital AI Solutions Ltd, which owns CelluloidScore.com. An entrepreneur and cultural producer, he sets the site’s answer-first editorial standard and transparent four-input Celluloid Score.
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Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad (2018) remains a defining Fantasy landmark from India, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Strongly recommended — holds up for new and returning viewers.
★★★½☆
Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie & Martin Scorsese's Uncut Gems (2019) remains a defining Drama landmark from United States, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant (2002) remains a defining Drama landmark from Turkey, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Lokesh Kanagaraj's Vikram (2022) remains a defining Action landmark from India, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Strongly recommended — holds up for new and returning viewers.
★★★½☆
Bruce Lee's The Way of the Dragon (1972) remains a defining Action landmark from Hong Kong, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Strongly recommended — holds up for new and returning viewers.
★★★½☆
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo's Wheels on Meals (1984) remains a defining Romance landmark from Hong Kong, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Strongly recommended — holds up for new and returning viewers.
★★★★½
Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (2014) remains a defining Drama landmark from United States, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★½☆
Sarah Polley's Women Talking (2022) remains a defining Drama landmark from United States, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Meenu Gaur & Farjad Nabi's Zinda Bhaag (2013) remains a defining Drama landmark from Pakistan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover the title.
Strongly recommended — holds up for new and returning viewers.
★★★★☆
Bright Vachirawit and Win Metawin turned fake-dating into international BL stardom — 75% critics, 92% audiences, campus charm at export scale.
Defining Thailand BL on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — formulaic, earnest, irresistibly sweet.
★★★★½
Malaysia's social-issue breakthrough — Abang Adik won Festival Filem Malaysia's top prizes and proved local cinema could…
Essential Malaysia cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Malaysia's social-issue breakthrough — Abang Adik won Festival Filem Malaysia's
★★★★☆
Ambitious Hum TV spiritual romance — polarising in pace, memorable in mood, and decorated at the Hum Awards for a cast willing to play devotion as drama rather than sermon.
Worth watching for Pakistan drama fans — Farooq Rind's Alif treats faith and desire as shared tension, with Sajal Aly carrying the series' emotional centre.
★★★★½
Indonesia's most acclaimed recent art-house thriller — Kevin Ardilova's unsettling performance and Mubarak's controlled …
Essential Indonesia cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Indonesia's most acclaimed recent art-house thriller — Kevin Ardilova's unsettli
★★★★★
Nattawut Poonpiriya turned standardized testing into a Cannes heist thriller — 95% critics, Chutimon's breakout, and Southeast Asia's smartest youth film of the decade.
Masterpiece-tier Thailand cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — the exam-cheating thriller every school drama wishes it could be.
★★★★½
Devastating and tender — Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee anchor a school-bullying drama that earned global awards attention …
Essential China cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Devastating and tender — Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee anchor a school-bullying dr
★★★★½
Wong Kar-wai's first major television work is a sensory triumph — Hu Ge anchors a nostalgic Shanghai tapestry that domin…
Essential China television on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Wong Kar-wai's first major television work is a sensory triumph — Hu Ge anchors
★★★★☆
Pakistan's ensemble drama at its finest — Cake won Lux Style Awards Best Film with performances from Aamina Sheikh and S…
Essential Pakistan cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Pakistan's ensemble drama at its finest — Cake won Lux Style Awards Best Film wi
★★★½☆
Can This Love Be Translated? pairs Kim Seon-ho's steady warmth with Go Youn-jung's live-wire star turn in a globetrotting rom-com that glows when its leads share the frame and sags whenever the plot tries to do more than let them.
A soothing, gorgeously shot comfort watch for rom-com devotees and fans of either lead. Forgive the saggy middle and the overstuffed subplots, and it rewards you.
★★★★½
Kamila Andini's Gadis Kretek swept Busan and Netflix — 90% critics, Dian Sastrowardoyo luminous, 1960s tobacco romance with historical sweep.
Essential Indonesia period drama on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — sensuous, sweeping, culturally rooted.
★★★★★
Haruo Sotozaki's feature adaptation became Japan's highest-grossing film — 98% critics, 97% audiences, and animation that turns grief into swordplay you feel in your chest.
Masterpiece-tier Japan animation on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — the shonen event film all others measured against.
★★½☆☆
Detective Chinatown 1900 rewinds Chen Sicheng's blockbuster franchise to Exclusion-era San Francisco with staggering production values and serious historical ambitions — then buries both under tonal whiplash, bloat, and jokes that curdle.
For franchise completists and admirers of Chow Yun-fat, who is worth the ticket alone. Everyone else can skip: the spectacle is real, but the film underneath it is a muddle.
★★★½☆
The 29th Detective Conan film swaps bombast for an honest-to-goodness mystery, wraps it in superbly animated motorcycle mayhem, and rode both to a record-breaking tenth-billion-yen run in Japan — proof this 29-film engine still has gears left.
One of the stronger modern Conan films — a treat for franchise faithful and a surprisingly workable entry point for the mystery-inclined. Casual viewers should expect formula, executed well.
★★★½☆
Understated romantic drama with award-winning craft — Di Sisi earned Anugerah Skrin recognition for acting and productio…
Essential Malaysia television on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — Understated romantic drama with award-winning craft — Di Sisi earned Anugerah Sk
★★★★½
A rare Chinese crowd-pleaser with teeth — Xu Zheng balances slapstick and moral outrage in a healthcare satire that move…
Essential China cinema on Best of Asia 2016–2026 — A rare Chinese crowd-pleaser with teeth — Xu Zheng balances slapstick and moral