A jaded cop-turned-lawyer finds the legal system difficult to navigate in Donnie Yen’s sophomore directorial effort.
Category: Thriller
Tape
Accountability. guilt and acceptance are all put under the microscope in Bizhan Tong and Selena Lee's tense adaptation.
Deal at the Border
No good deed goes unpunished in Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi’s thriller.
Cloud
An ethically dubious reseller has serious buyer’s remorse in Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s thriller.
Brief History of a Family
A boy makes a friend, and regrets it almost immediately in Lin Jianjie’s dramatic thriller.
Demon City
Revenge is a dish best served a decade too late in Seiji Tanaka’s so-so thriller.
Hope
A family suffers when their son goes missing in Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s tense mystery thriller.
Escape
A deserter finds that getting out is even harder than expected in Lee Jong-pil’s taut thriller.
Hard Days
Michihito Fujii’s remake is stressful, while eschewing much that might make it engaging.
The Chaser
The chase is on, more or less, in Na Hong-jin’s thriller.
Phantom
Everyone's a cat and everyone's a mouse in Lee Hae-young's action spy semi-thriller.
Photocopier
A young woman suffers a hangover from hell in Wregas Bhanuteja’s mystery thriller.
The Asian Cinema Critic 