An influential, tender gangster romance receives a gorgeous transfer and informative extras.
A transcendent bump in presentation materializes in the soundscapes but not quite the imagery.
Johnnie To’s popular capers come to home video with solid transfers and informative extras.
Ann Hui’s harrowing and profoundly human Boat People receives a gorgeous and loaded home video release.
This is an often beautiful film, unmistakably the work of a great director but also a clearly compromised one.
Ann Hui’s A Simple Life may have one of the most accurate titles in all of cinema.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
Tsui Hark’s surreal wuxia gets problematic transfer, but lives to tell the tale.
Benny Chan’s Shaolin both benefits from and is ultimately defeated by its own epic ambitions.
The film is a muddled state-sanctioned historical pageant produced to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Chinese communist party.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why Days of Being Wild doesn’t quite move me like Wong’s other films.
Tsui Hark’s new film is a consummately bizarre crowd-pleaser that throws everything at the viewer.
The best special effect in Danny Boyle’s hectic, ultimately tension-dispersing latest is James Franco’s performance.
The film is too monotonous to deliver more than a mild hack-and-slash high.
In Zhang Yimou’s orgiastic film, love isn’t so much a fabulous extension of history as it is a colorful off-shoot.
This trilogy of films proves that that the exchange of pop-cultural parts works in multiple directions.