Big Night! [2022]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A tonally shifty black comedy that rarely confronts its dark subject matterThe opening credits of Jun Robles Rana’s Big Night! (2022) inform us about the “watch…
Ribbon (2022): ‘NYAFF’ Review – Life and Pandemic Making Way for A Poignant Art PieceNot many of us can forget how it was when WHO first announced that we…
Legendary in Action! [2022]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A Patchy Homage to Hong Kong Wuxia Films“Even a bad film has a group of mad people behind the camera”, goes an…
Angry Son [2022]: ‘NYAFF’ Review: A Seamless Story of the Coming-of-Age of a Japanese-Filipino Queer Young AdultEvery time I am watching a coming-of-age story, I secretly wish the director brings to…
One and Four [2022]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – Defying the Perception of absolute truth and the fallacy of its adequacyHere comes another gorgeous film based on the Rashomon effect. ‘One and Four’s tightly wound…
Ox-Head Village [2022]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A Predictable yet Gripping Horror with a Grudge-Bearing GhostProlific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Shimizu’s Ox-Head Village (2022) is said to be the third in…