Siddhant Adlakha

Siddhant Adlakha is a critic and filmmaker from Mumbai, though he now lives in New York City. They're more similar than you'd think. Find him at @SiddhantAdlakha on Twitter

Still from "Blue Sun Palace"; Ke-Xi Wu as Amy and Haipeng Xu as Didi.

Chinese immigrant drama ‘Blue Sun Palace’ finds gentle emotional balance

A unique New York story of friendship and romance transformed by tragedy

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi in "Bullet Train Explosion."

‘Bullet Train Explosion’ goes delightfully off the rails

Netflix draws on a 1975 Japanese classic for a surprising action drama

Andor (Diego Luna) in "Andor" season two.

Star Wars spinoff ‘Andor’ returns with a vengeance (Chapter 1: Ep. 1-3)

Despite an extraneous detour, season two begins with some of the series’ strongest episodes

Still frame from "Sinners"; a man holds a guitar with people watching him play.

The incredible long-take that defines Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’

Midway through his vampire western, the “Black Panther” director brings music history to life—from hip-hop, to Chinese opera

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in "One to One: John & Yoko."

The enormous IMAX intimacy of ‘One to One: John & Yoko’

Part concert doc, part protest portrait, the film reveals the world through the eyes of global icons

Andie Ju and Brandon Soo Hoo in "Forge."

‘Forge’ is a slow-burn Chinese American heist drama

The SXSW selection follows a pair of twins biting off more than they can chew

Still from FToys; a woman sits in a circle of candles.

Annapurna Sriram’s ‘F*cktoys’ harkens back to a dormant era of trash cinema

An unapologetically kinky, campy sex worker fever dream from the “Billions” actress

JACK BLACK as Steve, JASON MOMOA as Garrett and SEBASTIAN HANSEN as Henry in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “A Minecraft Movie,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is deeply unpleasant (except for Jason Momoa)

A drab adaptation of a vast, expansive digital world

Still from "Viet and Nam"; two men stand on the beach, handing each other something.

The haunting abstractions of queer drama ‘Việt and Nam’

Minh Quý Trương unearths tethers to a war-torn past

A surgery turns you white in the racial satire ‘Slanted’

Amy Wang’s SXSW award winner has its provocative edges sanded down

‘October 8’ is a danger to both student protesters and Jewish Americans

The film grants ugly permission to persecute students and pass the buck of antisemitism to a boogeyman

Ryu Jun-yeol as Sung Min-chan in "Revelations."

South Korean crime drama ‘Revelations’ tackles vigilante justice

“Train to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho crafts a film of fate and coincidence