Monsoon explores displacement and cultural homelessness, a growing problem in the world today.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2022

This movie is in no hurry to explore the remnants of a lifetime, but Goldings travels will speak to many who have questioned the idea of home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2022

Though it captures that restless statelessness that any traveller will recognise, it fails to create a plot strong enough to justify its existence. It's absolutely a character piece, but you'll find yourself wishing Kit was a little more interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

A reflective, almost dreamlike delicacy floats throughout this beautifully shot drama that integrates the emigrant experience with a personal search for understanding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Monsoon is beautiful, dramatic in its subtlety, and wonderfully meaningful because of the diversity and the subject.

| Jul 2, 2021

Monsoon is a film that lingers in viewers' minds after the credits roll

| Jan 5, 2021

Privileging slow pans and still shots that linger on Golding's face, Khaou's film is sparse and intent on setting a melancholy mood that never feels overbearing.

| Dec 15, 2020

A beautifully empathetic look at the immigrant experiences, of being of two places but feeling like you belong to neither. Thoughtful, delicate and graceful.

| Dec 12, 2020

...serves as a thoughtful exploration of a life displaced and a more than worthy vehicle for Golding's evolving talents.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2020

Quietly shattering in its ruminations on cultural displacement, Monsoon is a stunning portrait of a man in limbo.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 25, 2020

Khaou's formidable subtlety doesn't work quite as well in Monsoon, which treads in an emotionally inert zone it never transcends, instead showcasing Benjamin Kracun's beautiful cinematography but little else.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2020

Hong's languid sense of pacing lends this 85-minute film an uncommon grace and helps build understated power, exploring a lifetime's worth of longing and uncertainty in the most fleeting of encounters.

| Nov 25, 2020

Monsoon could stand to be a little more turbulent, but that doesn't mean it won't stir something within you.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2020

It's all very delicately done, which may be the problem. Khaou is so intent on not being obvious about anything he wants to say that the dilemmas and dissatisfactions of the immigrant experience get lost among the subtleties.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2020

Turgid when it should have been thoughtful, vague when it should have been concrete.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2020

It's an anti-melodramatic film that carefully foregrounds Kit's story against the tragic background of a country recovering from war.

| Nov 16, 2020

It's much less about plot than it is about character, relationships, and memory, and Henry Golding is able to channel that richness in a largely nonverbal way that makes this enormously cinematic.

| Nov 14, 2020

A graceful and poignant take on the immigrant experience.

| Nov 14, 2020

"Monsoon" is a lyrical, ambiguous reverie, maddening at times and beautifully resonant at others; it's quietly disorienting, but deeply felt.

| Nov 13, 2020

"Monsoon" is a quiet, solitary affair designed to communicate how isolating it can be to travel alone in a big city, especially one you have a fragmentary relationship to.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 13, 2020