FILM

Watching with Mother

How an emotional female-centric comedy beat big budget competition at the Chinese box office

FILM

China’s Best Bad Movie?

A cumbersome plot dilutes Back to the Wharf’s attempt to tackle sensitive and timely topics

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
FILM

A First Farewell

Set in a Uyghur community, Wang Lina’s debut film is a bittersweet paean to the loss of innocence

FILM

Transpacific Flop

In trying to please everybody, Disney’s new live-action ‘Mulan’ has failed to satisfy anyone

FILM

Last Stand

New blockbuster “The Eight Hundred” rescues beleaguered box office and depicts KMT soldiers as heroes