In Review Online

10 stories

In Review OnlineMeasured Suspicion & Fervent Faith: Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine

11.02

In Review OnlineFilm is Not Beholden to Borders: Latin American Cinema at the 2026 Chicago International Film Festival

11.02

In Review Online5 Centimeters Per Second — Yoshiyuki Okuyama [Review]

11.02

In Review OnlinePushed to the Margins in Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis

10.30

In Review OnlineQueen at Sea — Lance Hammer [Review]

10.30

In Review OnlineA Grief as Wide as the River: A Conversation with Michał Marczak on Closure

10.30

In Review OnlineChristmas with the Kringles — Kevin Lewis [Review]

10.30

In Review OnlineBreeder — Alex Goyette [Review]

10.29

In Review OnlineWho Killed Alex Odeh? — Jason Osder & William Lafi Youmans [Review]

10.29

In Review OnlineThe Man Who Saw the Future: Lee Chang-dong’s Peppermint Candy

10.28

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo