A big, bad wolf faces the consequences of the life he’s chosen in Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Okiura’s dystopian sci fi.
Category: Thriller
Furie
A mother goes on a rampage of revenge when her daughter is … well, taken in Lê Văn Kiệt’s martial arts beat-em-up.
The Housemaid
Im Sang-soo’s Housemaid remake could use a declutter.
Woman of Fire
Insanity reigns over a married couple and their housemaid in the most broken of homes.
Raging Fire
Benny Chan ensures he goes out guns blazing in his final theatrical film.
Z Storm
David Lam’s 90-minute commercial for the ICAC is exactly as boring as it sounds.
Deliver us from Evil
A hitman is thrown into a chaotic cat-and-mouse game, just minutes away from retirement in Hong Won-chan’s action thriller. “You promised to take one last job.” These famous last words are directed at In-nam (Hwang Jung-min), a hitman who’s about ready to throw the towel in and retire to Panama, where people apparently go to … Continue reading Deliver us from Evil
Lang Tong
Sam Loh’s erotic thriller might have nudity and violence, but is neither erotic nor thrilling.
The Forest of Love
Sion Sono explores guilt, trauma, madness, suicide and abuse with exactly the amount of sensitivity you’d expect.
Night in Paradise
It’s an eye for an eye, for another eye in Park Hoon-jung’s gangster drama.
Lust, Caution
In Ang Lee’s sexy spy thriller, alliances and relationships are as fraught with peril as any war.
A Witness Out of the Blue
Birds cannot testify in court and a man crawls like a cat in Andrew Fung’s excellent whodunnit.
The Asian Cinema Critic 