From film festivals to new releases, find the latest reviews from contemporary East and Southeast Asian cinema here, written by the Filmed in Ether team.
With a wild premise and collection of oddball characters, Eiji Uchida's Love and Other Cults, tries to pay homage to Japan's uniquely bizarre cinema....
In a city of ten million, it can be easy to be just part of the crowd. We look at Yuya Ishii's The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue....
Sheron Dayoc's Women of the Weeping River is a portrait of two families caught in a cycle of violence and revenge, captured in documentary-like realism....
The high-octaine thrills of a heist caper mixed into a high school setting results in one of the most fun films of the year. This is Thailand's Bad Genius....
Kim Min-hee and Isabelle Huppert team up for Hong Sang-soo's Claire's Camera, a film that once more ruminates on familiar themes from the Korean auteur....
Director Kim Yang-hee’s debut film, The Poet and the Boy, is a cautionary tale to creatives who complicate their lives and others, in the name of their art....
Hirokazu Koreeda changes gears from family dramas to courtroom thriller with new film, The Third Murder. Does Koreeda's style translate well in a new genre?...