The Film Verdict
20 stories
The Film VerdictEuropeEarbug by Nemo Kim Love gets under the skin in Earbug —and into the brain. In Kim Hyo-mi’s animated debut, physical intimacy allows an insect-turned-alien to enter the brain through the ear and reveal…
The Film VerdictEuropeNothing Has Happened Yet by Nemo Kim A park bench promises a glimpse of the future in Nothing Has Happened Yet , but the more revealing moments arrive when its protagonist gets up and walks away.
The Film VerdictEuropeBusan 2026: The Verdict During an open-air talk underneath the Busan Film Centre’s stunningly futuristic roof, curators from some of the most renowned Asia-oriented international film festivals were asked what they thought…
The Film VerdictEuropeStreet Fighter The new movie Street Fighter clearly aims to capitalize on the nostalgia of fans around the world who have made this video-game franchise a smash for nearly four decades.
The Film VerdictEuropeBusan 2026: The Awards Midday Meal (Ghazaye nimroz ) from Iran took home top honors from the 31st Busan Intl. Film Festival, held Oct. 6 – 15, 2026.
The Film VerdictEuropeHinotama: Ball of Fire Takenoshin Yaza’s debut feature, Hinotama: Ball of Fire , is likely to be an acquired taste. Set around the collapse of an unremarkable family unit in contemporary Japan, the 24-year-old director’s…
The Film VerdictEuropeThe Flower In The Flowe r, a crematorium owner uses his own imminent death to enlighten his worldly staff about the value of old-school human goodness in an increasingly cynical age.
The Film VerdictEuropeFull Moon by Nemo Kim In Full Moon , a teenage girl wants everyone to look at her — provided they can’t see too much.
The Film VerdictEuropeBua “Life is song sung by men,” reads Bua from her uncle’s notebook during the film that bears her name. Bua (Ornpreeya Jory) is fifteen years old and mixed race, meaning her colouring makes her stand…
The Film VerdictEuropeThere Will Be Snow There Will Be Snow is set in Glaceterre, a city without Fireworks. The latter is actually an artificial intelligence system designed to make things easier for everyone, but it’s a line that sums up…
The Film VerdictEuropeZogsool After alienation, resistance – so goes the narrative arc in Zogsool , in which two stigmatised individuals fall for each other during an epidemic and then set off to stage their own modest fightback…
The Film VerdictEuropeCosmic Trace Cosmic Trace is a film of dissolves – and it’s not only because of Jang Woo-jin’s penchant of segueing from one scene to another with cross-fades. It’s much bigger and more metaphysical than that.
The Film VerdictEuropeRia A meek chambermaid by day and a manic rocker at night, Ria may be poor in material resources but not in spirit – and she stands central to Arvin Belarmino’s electric first feature.
The Film VerdictEuropeSelvi They laugh, they cry, they work long shifts and they return home during their much-earned break: Sailesh Rathnakumar’s first feature provides another imagining of the light and darkness hovering over…
The Film VerdictEuropeOther Mommy Universal Pictures opted not to pre-screen Other Mommy for critics, and that kind of refusal usually sounds the siren for an irredeemable stinker.
The Film VerdictEuropeThe Cord Sometimes it is not see easy for a mother to cut the cord. In the case of Dinara (Aigerim Mustafa), she has been a doting mother to her only child, Kuanysh, since the moment he was born.
The Film VerdictEuropeMidday Meal A rural schoolteacher loses sight of his own morality and sanity as he questions the divergent needs of his young (and old) charges in Midday Meal , director Majid Majidi’s eleventh feature film.
The Film VerdictEuropeIbuku Shot on grainy 16mm stock and set almost entirely in a small village in his native city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Eddie Cahyono’s fourth feature – which is his first in six years – is a moving tale…
The Film VerdictEuropeBusan Pivots to Genre by Cho Hyo-jin When it opened in South Korea, Na Hong-jin’s wild sci-fi action comedy Hope was a phenomenon.
The Film VerdictEuropeThe Social Reckoning The Social Network ended with Mark Zuckerberg, the wealthy and powerful creator of Facebook, staring at his computer, alone, hoping that an ex he treated shabbily might friend him back.
Nothing matches this filter yet.