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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Yasukuni Hollywood Reporter	10/05/07	Very Good	"Instead of harping on disputed grievances like the Nanjing massacre or comfort women, the film hones in on the shrine itself... A penetrating documentary illustrating the complexity of Japan's war legacy."
2.	United Red Army (Jitsuroku rengô sekigun: Asama sansô e no michi) Hollywood Reporter	02/10/08	Moderate	"...so fanatically faithful in tracing the roots of Japan's left-wing movement and ensuing fractured radicalism that it is a physical and emotional long haul for any viewer.... a must-see for students and intellectuals."
3.	Revanche Hollywood Reporter	02/12/08	Moderate	"Hard luck conspires with bad sex in this unspectacular Austrian tale of crime and punishment."
4.	Night and Day Hollywood Reporter	02/14/08	Moderate	"A Hong Sangsoo film with no onscreen sex? A male protagonist who can't get any? This is indeed a novelty for the Henry Miller of Korean cinema... impersonal, and therefore not terribly engaging."
5.	Kabei: Our Mother Hollywood Reporter	02/14/08	Very Good	"...authenticates Japan's wartime history by showing in quietly chilling detail how foreign aggression aside, the nation also turned on her own citizens..."
6.	The Warlords (2010) Hollywood Reporter	04/17/08	Outstanding	"...no-expense-spared battle scenes achieve a brutal majesty, refined by intricately plotted military strategies and Machiavellian statecraft."
7.	Tokyo! Hollywood Reporter	05/16/08	Good	"...interprets facets of life in the Japanese metropolis with footloose imagination and a nonchalant attitude toward artistic discipline or meaning."
8.	24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) Hollywood Reporter	05/17/08	Good	"...neither strains for unplumbed depths nor all-encompassing breadth... A modest but moving elegy on industrial metamorphosis in China."
9.	Serbis Hollywood Reporter	05/18/08	Very Good	"An engaging domestic drama and stylishly seamy homage to the gay cinema rendezvous.... the theater itself may be the film's real star."
10.	The Chaser Hollywood Reporter	05/18/08	Very Good	"...lives up to its title with a heart-stopping and brilliantly edited chase through alleys and steps.... the tight time-frame gives the excellent cast a chance to play with intensity, making even old genre hands hold their breath..."
11.	Tokyo Sonata Hollywood Reporter	05/19/08	Very Good	"...who needs the supernatural when modern urban life is more frightening?"
12.	The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom) Hollywood Reporter	06/17/08	Excellent	"The first half hour whizzes by... After about an hour of digressive comic relief, the film hurtles toward a grand finale at the pace of a galloping stagecoach."
13.	Red Cliff Hollywood Reporter	07/11/08	Good	"...hardcore disciples of John Woo's Hong Kong oeuvre will be straining hard to find the all-stops-out passion and sinewy machismo that ignited his bullet ballets..."
14.	Still Walking (Aruitemo Aruitemo) Hollywood Reporter	09/04/08	Excellent	"A subtly nuanced family drama that resonates long after its hushed ending."
15.	The Gift to Stalin (Podarok Stalinu) Hollywood Reporter	10/02/08	Good (Not Great)	"A work of old-fashioned, wholesome goodness celebrating virtue in adversity... a traditional narrative shorn of any stylistic originality or political controversy."
16.	Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly Hollywood Reporter	10/03/08	Good	"Indonesian director Edwin's play with associated images dazzles and confounds... it invites different interpretations related to blindness and color. Yet for all the complex symbolism and visual brilliance, 'Blind Pig' ultimately is an extended short."
17.	My Dear Enemy (Meotjin haru) Hollywood Reporter	10/06/08	Outstanding	"Lee Yoon-ki ('This Charming Girl') the guru of transient modern love and master raconteur has directed his best film yet. Eloquently scripted, with finely tuned dialogue, immaculate characterization and emotions that are brewed like coffee until the aroma comes out..."
18.	Departures Hollywood Reporter	11/13/08	Excellent	"A moving celebration of life through showing reverence for death.... thematically respectable, technically hard to fault, artfully scripted to entertain and touch."
19.	Chocolate Hollywood Reporter	02/06/09	Good	"The script, strewn with wild improbabilities and soapy melodrama, is beyond ridiculous. However, like Pinkaew's last two films, it carries its own internal logic..."
20.	Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) Hollywood Reporter	03/22/09	Good (Not Great)	"Director Derek Yee's tone seesaws awkwardly between didactic preaching and bleak cynicism... overall, the film is somber, gripping and at times achieves an epic sweep as a dark chapter on the Chinese diaspora."

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