Movie Explainers

I highly doubt Trigger Warning needed three lead writers overseeing this project. If it did, I’d love to know what they were doing. Whether I...

Knives Out has a lot to answer for. Imitators of Rian Johnson’s whodunnit haven’t exactly been few and far between over the last few years,...

It’s best not to take Kleks Academy too seriously, as it’s rooted in children’s imagination, after all. However, I am not convinced that director Maciej...

While the ending of Ultraman: Rising was the generic thrilling battle you’d expect from a movie with Kaiju, a genuine emotional factor was riding over...

I shouldn’t have to say this, but no — Under Paris is not based on a true story, and there are no sharks in the Seine...

For all its engaging fun, Hit Man has more meaning than the script suggests. It’s the ideal Netflix movie with obvious conversational points. I loved...

As expected, Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura is more about the winners and losers than anything else, but the ending also provides the lust for...

Depending on who you are, the ending of Under Paris, in which an army of mutated mako sharks essentially take over the world, is a...

You could predict the ending of Too Old for Fairy Tales 2 based entirely on reading the premise. If you’ve ever seen a movie, you...

The ending of My Oni Girl feels like a trippy experience. We are suddenly plunged into a fantasy world where reality is difficult to comprehend...

The third and final act of Atlas is the most engaging, mostly because I was excited for it to end but partly because they may...

By the time the final act of In Good Hands 2 arrives, Firat is a mixed bag of a character. On the one hand, he’s...

Netflix Asia projects continue to evolve and inspire, and Golden Kamuy is no exception. The exciting story has an intriguing historical backdrop, and the plot...

A majority of the live-action Golden Kamuy was good action, morality themes, and good humor, however, the ending provided much-needed context to the story, especially...

Sometimes, in film, the messages can get blurry, and that’s what happens in Faceless After Dark. Surfaced as a story about the toxicity of fandom,...

The biggest selling point of the Indonesian horror movie Monster is that it has no dialogue. Netflix warns viewers before starting the film, which I...

Mother of the Bride could have at least tried to make an effort. I know Netflix needed a branded movie title for America’s Mother’s Day, but...

A movie about two teenagers trying to secure prom dates is hardly the most original idea of recent years, but I was hoping that Kevin...