Author Weiting Liu

C’mon C’mon is writer-director Mike Mills’ tender, bittersweet coming-of-age docudrama that continues to manifest his profoundly personal contemplations on motherhood, childhood, and the mystery of...

Inspired by author Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cannes Best Screenplay winner Drive My Car is an avant-garde metatextual curation interweaving...

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s effortlessly beautiful anthology film comprised of three vignettes: a morbidly amusing love triangle, a seduction trap that goes awry, and...

The Tragedy of Macbeth marks Joel Coen’s dual venture into a metatextual adaptation of William Shakespeare’s prescient epic and his unprecedented directorial experimentation independent of his brother...

Adapted from the viral Twitter thread in 2015 by A’Ziah King – a Detroit stripper who goes by “Zola” as her 148-tweet real-life story's protagonist – director Janicza Bravo and playwright Jeremy O....

Inspired by author Pierre Oscar Lévy and artist Frederik Peeters’ French graphic novel Sandcastle, Old is the visionary auteur M. Night Shyamalan’s latest venture into the age-old philosophical debate...

Writer-director Emma Seligman’s loosely autobiographical debut feature Shiva Baby is a concise yet all-encompassing snapshot of the zeitgeist generations’ intersectional anxieties compounded by nihilism...

“The world’s a little blurry. Or maybe it’s my eyes.” This line from Billie Eilish’s record-breaking debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? turns into the apt title of director R.J....

Despite director Joe Wright’s aesthetically-pleasing visual storytelling, cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel’s thoughtful coordination of symbolic framing and lighting, and a stellar cast attempting to...

This film was previously reviewed in September 2020. Writer-director-editor Chloé Zhao’s genre experimentation within the poetic docudrama has come to technical fruition in Nomadland, elevating her to...

Apparently conceptualised upon Groundhog Day, Palm Springs is director Max Barbakow and writer Andy Siara’s subversive foray into the romcom genre set in an infinite time loop. This meaty genre subversion...

“Loyal, Brave, True” (忠勇真) are the three words engraved on the Hua family sword, comprising Mulan’s central motif that in turn reflects this live action remake’s reexamination of what constitutes...

Blade Runner's science fiction cyberpunk world is anchored in the classic noir genre’s sombre aesthetics. But it also subverts them. The film combines urban decay in the high-tech metropolis of a futuristic...