It may look and feel like Hou-Hsiao Hsien (Millenium Mambo) and sound like Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love), but writer-director Justin Chon (Gook) doesn't have what it takes to do all that paraphrasing and still make the film his own.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 27, 2019

The empowerment trajectory of "Ms. Purple..." will surprise no one.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 24, 2019

Carey and Kasie have suppressed most outward signs of emotion. But Chu and Lee show the emotion roiling beneath the surface...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2019

A moody, downbeat drama soaked in color and saturated with sadness.

| Sep 12, 2019

Together, these various shades of misery swirl together to create a beautiful portrait of a fractured but resilient family.

| Sep 5, 2019

Each layer is so beautifully, subtly explored, you can get lost in the characters' emotions or just be swept away by Ante Cheng's cinematography, which graciously soaks in the street and neons light of Los Angeles.

| Sep 5, 2019

Even with an ostensibly more delicate scenario than a community literally ablaze, Chon's eagerness to treat emotions like ready-made fires gets in the way of the intended weight and textured beauty of his drama.

| Sep 5, 2019

Subtlety dissipates as Justin Chon's film grasps for something louder and more obvious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2019

Chon creates a layered aural and visual landscape for the characters, who are simultaneously grieving the past and the future, their present an almost uncanny hallucinatory state.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 3, 2019

Chon's newest film is a tribute to familial responsibility, told from a female perspective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2019

It's often the moments in between Chon's loudest notes that make the best impression in "Ms. Purple," a striking character study on the responsibilities of family, and the importance of sticking around.

| Feb 5, 2019

It's a ripe topic Chon clearly feels deeply, rendered in beautiful cinematography and delicate storytelling.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 4, 2019

There's enough substance here to reward the patient in this tale of two disparately isolated siblings reuniting during their father's last weeks in L.A.'s Koreatown.

| Jan 28, 2019

Dwells quietly in the limbo of those waiting for a loved one to die.

| Jan 28, 2019