Meanwhile, a Chinese action movie that tries to tap in to nationalist sentiment didn’t do as well as similar movies in previous years. “Operation Hadal,” also released two weeks ago in China ...

The Chinese animated movie Ne Zha 2 may not sound familiar to mainstream audiences worldwide, but it has quietly become one of the highest-grossing films ever. It has earned over $2 billion, passing ...

The Chinese writer and director Wang Xiao Long ... further pushes the aesthetic border in this impeccably rendered action movie. The keen detective Huang Mingjin (Miao Xie) and an underworld ...

There is no world-building here in the same sense as in movies from Marvel or Pixar. Chinese writer-director Jiaozi, who also made the first film, does not spoonfeed backstory. Nor does he ground ...