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Rose Ho The Asian Cut Oct 25, 2026 9/10 [T]he film effectively allows Said to relate everything in his own words — passionate, clear-eyed, and easy to grasp. Go to Full Review Edward Said: Between Worlds (2026) 94% - -

Wilson Kwong The Asian Cut Oct 17, 2026 Concocted with equal parts silliness and endearment, Roshan Sethi’s The Surgeon is a bombastically fun thrill ride of a film. Go to Full Review The Surgeon (2026) 100% - -

Rose Ho The Asian Cut Sep 27, 2026 8/10 It’s immensely satisfying to watch competent and morally aligned journalists and detectives work together to find the truth...reminiscent of the procedural work in David Fincher’s Zodiac. Go to Full Review The Assassin(s) (2026) 100% - -

Rose Ho The Asian Cut Sep 27, 2026 9/10 With its core father-daughter relationship, deeply American setting, and directorial prowess on display, Your Mother could very well be this year’s One Battle After Another, very much worthy of award show consideration and endless critical analysis. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Sep 18, 2026 3.5/5 [Ah Girl] doesn’t need to enlarge childhood pain to make it important. Ang simply stays close enough to show how enormous adults can look when you’re seven, especially when they insist that everything affecting your life is none of your business. Go to Full Review Ah Girl (2026) 100% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Aug 6, 2026 4.5/5 Kurosawa may have moved from contemporary horror into samurai drama, but he remains fascinated by the moment when a rational explanation fails to make the world feel rational. Go to Full Review The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) 97% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Jul 27, 2026 3/5 [Yoyogi Johnny] understands that adolescence is often just a long rehearsal for living. On some days, you play squash. On other days, you merely sit in the clubroom and call that progress. Go to Full Review Yoyogi Johnny (2025) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Jul 23, 2026 3.5/5 The film takes you roughly where you expect. The surprise is that, by the end, the familiar road still feels worth travelling. Go to Full Review Tokyo Taxi (2025) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Jul 22, 2026 4/5 Sato and Sato understands marriage not as one promise broken in a single dramatic instant, but as a shared life slowly crowded by evidence. Go to Full Review Sato and Sato (2025) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Asian Cut Jun 5, 2026 4/5 [Exit 8] takes the central mechanic of the game and asks a very simple question: can this become cinema? Kawamura’s answer is not perfect, but it is often thrillingly precise. Go to Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% - -

Lauren Hayataka The Asian Cut May 7, 2026 4/5 The film is warmer than it first appears, and in its own understated way, it understands the connection we all search for. Go to Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) 95% - -

Rajiv Prajapati The Asian Cut Apr 16, 2026 3.5/5 [Mabel] insists on showing us the birds and the trees, but the sincerity ultimately shows up in a remarkable manner Go to Full Review Mabel (2024) - - - -

Rachel Ho The Asian Cut Apr 8, 2026 3/5 We enter the film hopping to particular conclusions, and we leave just looking for somebunny to hug. Go to Full Review Bunny!! (2026) - - - -

Wilson Kwong The Asian Cut Apr 2, 2026 4/5 The film’s narrative prowess comes from its unique integration of documentary and fictional storytelling, creating a cinematic vernacular that is both poignant and refreshing. Go to Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 93% - -

Nikkitha Bakshani The Asian Cut Mar 23, 2026 4/5 By portraying racism as more of an annoyance than a tragedy, the movie gives its characters (and audience) permission to let loose and have fun, away from a patriarchal surveillance state that masquerades as "community" and "culture." Go to Full Review Bhaji on the Beach (1993) 88% 59%

Jericho Tadeo The Asian Cut Mar 22, 2026 4.5/5 If there’s one film recently that has reminded me of why we go to the movies — indeed, why I persist in writing about film — it’s Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. Go to Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% - -

Rajiv Prajapati The Asian Cut Mar 22, 2026 3.5/5 [The] dense narrative complexity creates the right platform for much of the abstractions that arise within the film, giving the philosophical meanderings something to cling to. Go to Full Review The Red Spectacles (1987) - - - -

Rose Ho The Asian Cut Mar 7, 2026 8/10 Part disaster movie, part dystopian technothriller, and part teenage coming-of-age story, Neo Sora’s Happyend blends these seemingly disparate genres to form an affecting tale of friendship and love. Go to Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% - -

Rose Ho The Asian Cut Mar 7, 2026 6/10 Rabbit Trap doesn’t exactly snap to break bones, but it does its best to make a long-lasting impression. Go to Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 49% - -

Lauren Hayataka The Asian Cut Sep 22, 2025 3/5 Zane captures that restlessness with uncanny precision. Go to Full Review Waltzing with Brando (2024) 56% - -