Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — newest first. Showing 265–288 of 590 movie reviews.
★★★★½
A rare Chinese crowd-pleaser with teeth — Xu Zheng balances slapstick and moral outrage in a healthcare satire that move…
★★★★☆
A quiet triumph — Guang won hearts at festival circuits for Alan Khoo's performance and Quek's refusal to treat autism a…
★★★★☆
Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards became a generational pair in Cathy Garcia-Sampana's Hong Kong OFW weepie — 78% critics, 92% audiences, record-breaking love.
★★★☆☆
A decade after The Wailing, Na Hong-jin resurfaces with Hope — a 160-minute creature epic whose opening stretch is some of the most ferocious action filmmaking of his career, and whose back half spends that brilliance with both hands.
★★★★★
Pat Boonnitipat's bluntly titled elder-care drama conquered Asia — 92% critics, 94% audiences, and Putthipong Assaratanakul making inheritance grief universally legible.
★★★☆☆
Sitisiri Mongkolsiri's kitchen thriller splits critics — 72% critics, 68% audiences — but Chutimon's second star vehicle is essential Thailand viewing.
★★★★☆
Joko Anwar's Perempuan Tanah Jahanam conquered Rotterdam and Shudder — 90% critics, visceral folk horror, and class rage sharpened to a slaughterhouse edge.
★★★½☆
Kevin Ko's 咒 became a global Netflix curse — 80% critics, viral ritual dread, and found-footage horror that asks viewers to risk participation.
★★★★½
Pakistan's most important recent film — Joyland balances family melodrama with queer tenderness, earning Oscar shortlist…
★★★½☆
Bold and divisive — Kamli confronts female desire with Sarmad Khoosat's theatrical instincts and Saba Qamar's career-def…
★★★½☆
Awi Suryadi turned a Twitter thread into Indonesia's highest-grossing film — 78% critics, 85% audiences, and jump scares rooted in Javanese ritual that still haunt local cinema.
★★★★☆
Karachi noir with soul — Ahmed Ali Akbar and Mansha Pasha anchor a Lux Style Awards Best Film winner that wears its infl…
★★★★☆
Trấn Thành's single-mother romance broke every Vietnamese box-office record — 74% critics, 91% audiences, working-class tenderness at national scale.
★★★★☆
Cheng Wei-hao's cop-marries-ghost comedy conquered Taiwan — 85% critics, 90% audiences, Greg Hsu and Austin Lin chemistry for the ages.
★★★★☆
Syamsul Yusof's silat spectacle became Malaysia's box-office champion — 75% critics, 88% audiences, and patriotic action that filled cinemas nationwide.
★★★½☆
Potsy Ponciroli's Motor City strips a 1970s Detroit revenge plot down to bodies, cars, and a disco-rock pulse — roughly five lines of dialogue, and Alan Ritchson carrying the rest like a wrecking ball with a broken heart.
★★★½☆
Syamsul Yusof's supernatural sequel dominated Malaysian horror — 68% critics, 80% audiences, faith and fear woven into domestic dread.
★★★★★
Jiaozi's sequel crossed $2 billion worldwide — 90% critics, 95% audiences, and a mythic epic that made Ne Zha the defining Chinese animation franchise of the decade.
★★★★½
Jiaozi's demon-child reinvention became a $700M+ phenomenon — 88% critics, 90% audiences, and the animation earthquake that proved Chinese myth could compete with Pixar at the box office.
★★★★☆
Raw, angry, essential — Namron's directorial debut channels social rage into propulsive crime storytelling and became a …
★★★★☆
Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera's real-life marriage powered Mae Cruz-Alviar's Christmas blockbuster — 72% critics, 90% audiences, engineered catharsis that worked.
★★★★☆
Malaysia's folk horror landmark — Roh won Festival Filem Malaysia Best Film and exported Southeast Asian supernatural dr…
★★★★½
Kyoto Inferno widens the canvas into civil-war grandeur while keeping Kenshin’s vow at the center — Tatsuya Fujiwara’s Shishio is a villain for the ages.
★★★★½
Keishi Otomo’s Origins proves manga adaptation can be graceful, kinetic and emotionally grounded — Takeru Satoh’s Kenshin is an instant classic of Japanese blockbuster cinema.
