Not surprisingly, the three Wong sisters and their father could exist in separate movies -- their (short) stories are interesting but not convincingly knit together. Think of Red Doors as a promise, and hope that [director] Georgia Lee keeps it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

This family drama is balanced between equal measures of dark humor and pathos so that Red Doors floats gently between sentimentality and cynicism. It's a lovely little film, and well done.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

A gentle, pleasant film about people you genuinely like.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

A peppy if uneven charmer with a fetchingly wistful edge.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2006

... the script falls victim to the stereotypes and cliches so often found in movies about Asian-American families.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Red Doors feels like a first-time film; quirks are overplayed while themes remain underdeveloped.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Named for the traditional Chinese color of good luck, the gentle indie drama Red Doors is really more in the rosy pink range of the color palette than a more primary emotional hue.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2006

Well-shot, well-written film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2006

This agreeable, lightweight movie, written and directed by Georgia Lee, turns the malaises of a suburban family into bittersweet farce that teeters between cheeky humor and surface pathos.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2006

A few of the plot threads are woven more neatly than others, but the film makes for a promising debut.

| Sep 7, 2006

Red Doors is so well-meaning, with such obvious affection for its characters, that it pleases nonetheless.

| Sep 5, 2006

The director attempts a disquisition on the beast of ethnic assimilation, except her point is obvious only in the way she lazily cobbles her story together from the worst indie-movie clichs made fashionable in the wake of American Beauty.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2006

Despite pic's earnestness and obvious good intentions, narrative elements, carefully set forth though they may be, fall back on overfamiliar, underdeveloped tropes.

| Sep 1, 2005

Without overdoing the quirk factor or the melodrama, Lee shows a sure feel for family dynamics, and her light touch brings out the best in the ensemble's lovely, understated performances.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2005