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Calvin Law

Calvin Law's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Calvin Law is a film enthusiast based in Hong Kong, with an undergraduate degree in English literature and a master’s in Film Studies from the UK. He has been covering a broad range of cinema and awards seasons across the years, mainly on his personal page Reel and Roll, as well as writing for outlets such as AwardsWatch, Next Best Picture and The Asian Cut.

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Bad Axe (2022) 96% 4/5 EDIT “By following the Siev family through the troubled lockdowns, 'Bad Axe' utilizes the power of observation in watching them work tirelessly for their community.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Harvest (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “The film excels most at its eruptions of the frayed family bonds, where it moves into its most deeply specific moments.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Liquor Store Dreams (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “[The film] understands that healing is a long-term process and thus doesn’t offer clear-cut resolutions, but rather the potential of such.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review City of Wind (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “So dynamic is [Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir's] visual storytelling that it can help one overlook some of the rougher patches.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Sidonie In Japan (2023) 56% 3.5/5 EDIT “At once enjoyable and inspiring in the way its protagonist finds a new lease on life in the most unexpected of ways.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Tatami (2023) 94% 4/5 EDIT “While 'Tatami' does indulge in the occasional sports film cliché, the unapologetic way in which the film makes these women’s rage and fight back makes the film raw, fresh and essential viewing.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Shadow of Fire (2023) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “A well-crafted film with a potent message.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “The film’s power lies in something so simple yet so extraordinary: watching a master at his craft perform for us one last time.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Cobweb (2023) 76% 3.5/5 EDIT “An enjoyable showcase of virtuoso filmmaking that just about carries its scattered ideas to a satisfying finish.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Perfect Days (2023) 96% 5/5 EDIT “ Yakusho gives the performance of a lifetime that deservedly earned him the Cannes Film Award for Best Actor. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review My Favourite Cake (2024) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “A resonant work that brings a smile to my face when thinking about it at its charming and most endearing best. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Some Rain Must Fall (2024) 3/5 EDIT “As a feature film debut, it’s not quite a knockout, but bears quite a bit of promise for what’s to come for Yang.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Box Man (2024) 3/5 EDIT “It might not work all the time and the chaos leaves much unclear, but there’s no denying there’s a compelling nature to all the messiness. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review A Traveler's Needs (2024) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Hong finds the perfect balance between exposition and restraint, asserting that it’s in the words left unsaid that the truth can be found.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Shambhala (2024) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Gorgeously crafted, spiritually invigorating character study that, with its slow, patient storytelling, pays great dividends. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review All Shall Be Well (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Yeung’s touches as a filmmaker from the outset are largely understated and gentle...[making] the development of the film’s interactions into much more pointed, barbed words to be all the more striking. ” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Black Dog (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “As we follow the journey of Lang and Black Dog, the film embraces its purpose alongside them, reigniting itself with energy in every scene of them bonding together.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “That Rankin segues from all this enjoyable humour into something quite strangely moving as we delve further into his stories, is quite impressive. ” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review New Wave (2024) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ai crafts a moving, deeply personal story not just of her own experience with Vietnam’s New Wave and being a Vietnamese diaspora child, but integrating the experiences of others. ” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review The Glassworker (2024) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “'The Glassworker' succeeds on the merits of its personal touch, and the sheer breadth of the animated beauty.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “A powerful, unsparing documentary that utilises the camera as not just a means of documenting the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community, but as a means for its survival against oppression.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Kill (2023) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “Although 'Kill' aims, and succeeds, to be a crowd-pleasing action film in many regards, Bhat gives time and space on some of the more uncomfortable notions surrounding our spectatorship of our ostensible hero becoming an extreme killing machine.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Super Happy Forever (2024) 4/5 EDIT “As the film unravels it makes its purpose all the more clear and movingly finds its way into our hearts.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “It doesn’t quite achieve the heights and depths in its examination of these topics as one might want, but it is a largely effective piece that makes its conflicts and resolutions well worth watching.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Tokyo Cowboy (2023) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “While 'Tokyo Cowboy' doesn’t reinvent any wheels, it’s a lovely fulfilling watch that nails all its goodhearted intentions.” – The Asian Cut Jul 24, 2025 Full Review
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