Crazy Rich Asians represents people and places with so little thought that it upholds a painful, brutal hegemony that's painfully apparent to people who live in Southeast Asia, where the film is actually set.

| Mar 11, 2021

A binge-able series might have been a better way to go, since the script squeezes a sprawling supporting cast into boisterous caricatures and transforms an intricate flow chart of status among Singapore's superrich into a flood of affectations.

| Sep 27, 2018

Aside from these important issues of representation and diversity, Crazy Rich Asians marks a welcome return for the funny, giddy, likeable, glamorous Hollywood romcom.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2018

Somewhere between My Big Fat Greek Wedding and a Jane Austen novel: meticulous and hilariously alert to social structures, family dynamics and money, with a plucky underdog heroine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2018

Michelle Yeoh takes the acting honours as the heroine's steely prospective mother-in-law.

| Sep 15, 2018

Michelle Yoh is terrific not least because... you have [her] character who is very not funny in a way which is kind of impressive in a comedy.

| Sep 14, 2018

In many ways, this supposed celebration of diversity disappoints. It doesn't matter. Its unpredictable female leads are as good as gold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2018

The director, Jon M Chu, thankfully, knows his rom-coms. There's Pretty Woman in here. There's Bridget Jones and Ever After, but he's made them new.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2018

And what it's doing right is showing white people that they don't own Hollywood any more, and maybe everyone wants to applaud that. In this way, it's a terrific film.

| Sep 13, 2018

[A] good-natured and spectacular comedy...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2018

Director Jon M. Chu keeps the plot racing along as Rachel is introduced to a small army of her boyfriend's relatives and friends.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2018

The whole film has an idiotic élan. It's a Jane Austen story done as razzmatazz romcom, plus a bit of all-singing, all-dancing Rebecca.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2018

Above all, it's got that romcom magic. Like any of the best real-life weddings, it makes you simultaneously laugh and cry and go 'awww!' in the kissy bits. Suffering from post-summer holiday blues? Consider them banished.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2018

A decadent fever dream of gorgeous people, places and things.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2018

This is a glossy, energetic romance-drama-comedy that continues the process of putting Asia in a new light.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 7, 2018

The best romantic comedy from a big studio since Bridget Jones's Diary was released in 2001.

| Aug 30, 2018

Feels blithely liberated from the obligation to offer up suffering that has long been part of the implicit bargain made with so many mainstream movies focused on characters of color-that they are treated as marketable in relation to the pain they portray

| Aug 30, 2018

Chu's direction displays a robust regard for the combined power of glamour and velocity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2018

It's crazy good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2018

It's a boisterous ride that you'll want to jump on time and again, still chortling with each rewatch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2018