Ball of Fire has a hint of the mystical and mysterious as it creates a suffocating milieu of detachment that is strangely ...
The first feature by Korean Academy of Film Arts graduate Kim Si-jin is a delicately designed stop-action animation that is ...
Jeong Ji-hye’s tender second feature 'Full Moon' pairs an occasionally overexplained coming-of-age narrative with exceptional ...
Chinese filmmaker Story Chen makes her bow at Busan with 'There Will Be Snow', a futuristic, frosty and strangely forbidding ...
Filmmaker Jang Woo-jin delivers a moving, meditative and masterful paean to mortality in his fourth feature, which bows in ...
A family is as sick as its secrets in this slickly workmanlike chiller, which mainly coasts along on jump scares and creepy ...
A mother's world unravels when her only son is charged with a violent crime in the dark, chilly and pointed Kazakh drama The ...
Returning to Busan after 15 years, Michelle Yeoh talks about her latest film, Korean movies she loves, and the injury that nearly ended her career. Youm Kyu-bock lights up Busan’s top-tier competition ...
The curtain rang down on the 74 th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept. 18-26) on Saturday night with a satisfying, well-measured distribution of awards chosen from a particularly rich and ...
Mike Leigh’s warm-hearted look at frustrated social workers and families facing crises, Tender Loving Care, was a worthy winner of the Golden Shell and two more prizes.
Young German cinema is on a roll when it comes to foreign-born first-time directors adapting their migrant experiences, or something similar to them, for the big screen (Hijamat, for instance). One ...
So many studio features limp into theaters with too few ideas that it seems somehow ungrateful to point out one that has too many. There’s a lovely central story in Forgotten Island, about two ...