Maggie Lee

A lyrical ode to youth at its most fearless and foolhardy, "So Young," the helming debut of one of China's best-known actresses, Vicki Zhao ("Painted Skin: The Resurrection," "Shaolin Soccer"),...

Brimming with love, humor and heartbreak, "Ilo Ilo" centers on the inseparable bond between a 10-year-old Singaporean boy and his Filipina nanny while the boy's parents struggle to weather the...

"Driving Miss Daisy" this ain't, but a wealthy Hong Kong woman and her mainland Chinese chauffeur do make a small, indefinable connection as they go through their own financial meltdowns...

Reshaping a classic babies-switched-at-birth plot into a thoughtful exploration of the meaning of parenthood, Japanese helmer Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son" is a characteristically low-key but supple treatment of...

An aspirational drama about how three deadbeat college chums built a business empire by teaching English, Peter Chan Ho-sun's "American Dreams in China" is attractively packaged and moderately enjoyable, but...

A cinematic mongrel that defies genre conventions, "A Werewolf Boy" leaps from one conceptual plane to another. Starting with the discovery and domestication of a feral boy in the woods,...

All roads lead to a bathtub in "Thermae Romae," a time-travel fantasy in which a Roman architect from 128 AD saves the empire by tapping into Nipponese ablution habits. The...

All roads lead to a bathtub in "Thermae Romae," a time-travel fantasy in which a Roman architect from 128 AD saves the empire by tapping into Nipponese ablution habits. The...

The dots and dashes don't connect in "The Silent War," a '50s Chinese spy thriller that examines the interception of government intelligence via radio frequencies. Hong Kong helmers Alan Mak...