Tigertail is a story no different from thousands, but that is far too often forgotten — a sorrowful East Asian-American tale filled with unfeigned regret.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 28, 2022

The depiction of quiet suffering in the name of supporting one’s family is a fascinating portrait, particularly in how it can lead to such animosity.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

Alan Yang's Netflix debut is a moving record of the immigrant experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

One of the few movies where I'd recommend it going longer, using the time to fill in the blanks and make the whole movie feel as arresting as its early scenes.

| Feb 21, 2021

Tigertail is a well-made movie that could have used a more fleshed-out story to fully reach its potential.

| Feb 17, 2021

A stunningly-shot drama...the story captures an immigration experience familiar to many families in America.

| Nov 17, 2020

... the quiet debut feature of American writer/director/producer Alan Young, is rudimentary but honest.

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

Tigertail reminds me a lot of Master of None although, logically, from a more dramatic point of view. Although the movie is entertaining, Yang is much better at comedies than dramas. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Unfortunately, Tigertail fails to say anything unique about the Asian-American experience and only skims the surface of its narrative.

| Jul 29, 2020

Yang's exploration of the past just about remembers to include the present day, and the end result is a movie that pays homage to how memories shape your present.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

Perhaps the film's most profound accomplishment is the richness of the empathy it offers its characters while it examines the nuances of the past from multiple perspectives. There is no villain here ... just the walls they put up between one another.

| Jul 27, 2020

Tigertail is Alan Yang's love letter to a past generation, one that gave up much of themselves so that their kids would never have to go through what they did.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 8, 2020

A profound look at the stories of migrants, especially young people who arrive in foreign countries with disproportionate hopes of what will happen and face a reality from which there is no turning back. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 22, 2020

Emmy-winning Master Of None co-creator Alan Yang's debut feature explores a Taiwanese immigrant's experience with modest grace and sensitivity.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 21, 2020

Yang is a talented filmmaker whose writing has always evidenced a deep, sophisticated understanding of the sometimes-contradictory nature of human emotions

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2020

A sprawling, multigenerational saga spanning several decades across different continents, Tigertail is also only 91 minutes long, so most of the time it feels like a trailer for itself.

| Apr 24, 2020

More potent is the sense of choices made young becoming faultlines through a life, creaking under us across decades and continents.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2020

Tigertail leaves a sour aftertaste because it could have been better than what it ends up being. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 23, 2020

Tzi Ma's face is etched with sadness, casting a melancholic pall over the film's entire drama. We truly understand a particular immigrant experience and why some particularly strict parents got that way.

| Apr 21, 2020

It's what expatriate Taiwanese businessman Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma) doesn't say that's makes this semi-autobiographical drama so powerful.

| Apr 20, 2020