The love story has promise, but the film surrounding it feels amateurishly directed and executed. At roughly 75 minutes, it is easy enough to sit through; with tighter editing ...

A weekend in the countryside gives the characters plenty of room to avoid one another—and eventually nowhere left to hide. They walk through the woods, prepare potato salad ...

It takes the prospect of Chen Ke leaving to make Yu Lei understand what he stands to lose. Until then, affection has been tangled up with competition, jealousy and the fear of ...

Calling this a comedy sets up an expectation the film never meets: I didn’t laugh once. The hired-boyfriend premise has supplied plenty of other movies with good comic ...

A rising body count ought to make a murder investigation feel more urgent. Here, it mostly makes the detectives look worse. Students are being brutally killed, yet Jade and ...