In an apartment building in Taipei, a high school girl—the only child in the family on the top floor—leaves home after being grounded for several days. As for the DINK couple in the middle, the husband is going on a business trip but also rushing to his ex-girlfriend who came from the US. Down to the big family with four children on the first floor, the father cannot bear the noises anymore and announces first thing in the morning that he will work overtime today. This is a new middle-class cosmopolitan comedy shaped by multiple narratives.
One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.
Critical Incident is worthy of a weekend binge, keeping you guessing right up until the end.
One Christmas Eve, after a sudden snowstorm, a group of teenagers will discover how their lives will change forever.
Netflix takes some liberties in its portrayal of Madame CJ Walker, a trailblazing Black entrepreneur.
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
Shadow & Bone excels in natural story representation with powerful centering of culture. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, the feisty cartographer with kindness, innocence, and integrity, who comes to be revealed as the legendary summoner of light.
