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.
First time filmmaker Wang Yichun turns in a deeply promising and focused debut with her coming-of-age teenage murder mystery What's in the Darkness....
Boo Junfeng's dark prison drama Apprentice is an impressive Singaporean feature that explores isolation and offers no easy answers to capital punishment....
Chinese animated adventure The Magic Brush offers plenty in the way of laughs and imagination that's sure to entertain the young and young at heart. ...
Koji Fukada's Cannes award-winning Harmonium is a family drama centered on repentance and sin but where does it fit in Japan's history of that genre?...
Na Hong-jin's hellish genre hopping ghost story, The Wailing, is an unrelenting experience and one that is unlikely to be forgotten about any time soon....
Hong Kong crime master Johnnie To returns to the genre that defined him in Three, a hospital-set thriller starring Louis Koo, Vicki Zhao and Wallace Chung. ...
Black and white feature Tharlo explores a clash of cultures when an isolated sheep herder in the mountains suddenly experiences the modern world of Tibet....