Maggie Lee

"How long will it take?" asks the protagonist of Naomi Kawase's "Still the Water" as he watches a goat being slaughtered. Many viewers will find themselves asking the same question...

A hit-and-run lands a cop in more trouble than he could ever have imagined in "A Hard Day," a South Korean police thriller that finds helmer-scribe Kim Seong-hung handling a...

A remake of the 1989 kung fu fantasy "The Iceman Cometh," in which a Ming dynasty warrior time-travels to contempo Hong Kong, "Iceman 3D" is snowed under by f/x of...

Charting a love story that spans two decades, Frant Gwo's "My Old Classmate" is a Chinese campus romance that manages to make the genre's most time-worn themes feel as fresh...

A brooding psycho-mystery which pits a confident hypnotherapist against a beautiful patient who claims she can "see dead people," "The Great Hypnotist" reconfirms Taiwanese helmer Leste Chen as an accomplished...

Featuring three bounty-hunting hotties who crack a treasonous plot during Korea's Joseon dynasty, "The Huntresses" is pure silliness marbled with occasional entertaining moments. Despite a jumbled, pedestrian plot, South Korean...

As wholesome as fresh milk, "Silver Spoon" centers on a pack of individualistic youngsters who attend a vocational high school for dairy farming in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Not your average...

A lengthy but big-hearted sports saga set in 1931, "Kano" traces how a ragtag baseball team made up of farm boys from southern Taiwan made it to the finals at...

A hostage action-drama so sedate it suggests a remake of "Die Hard" by Yoji Yamada, "Police Story 2013" feels as old and tired as the character played by its leading...

Reflecting the desultory vibes of a college graduate as she rots at home for a year, to the increasing chagrin of her dad, "Tamako in Moratorium" is a bittersweet family...