CJ Sheu
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CJ Sheu, an Assistant Professor of Applied English at Ming Chuan University, is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved, Taipei-based film critic for The News Lens.
‘Dealing with Dad’ Covers Old Ground with a New Twist
A woman reluctantly goes back to her hometown with her brothers to deal with the sudden depression of their father. But he’s actually nicer depressed than well.
‘The Bomber’ Turns Incompetence Into Vision
A top flight lawyer becomes a bomber after his client, a key witness in a government graft case, gets assassinated.
‘Rally Road Racers’ Is Derivative Fun with Chinese Characteristics
To save his grandma's home from demolition, a young race car driver competes against a vainglorious reigning champion and wins by finding his Dao.
Sports Film ‘Anime Supremacy!’ Romanticizes Overwork
Anime Supremacy! celebrates self-sacrificing teamwork in pursuit of a greater goal — even if it means working overtime.
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Is a Fitting Conclusion to a Wild Ride
“John Wick: Chapter 4” runs nearly three hours, but if you hop onto its overserious wavelength, the time flies by like a bullet.
‘Cyber Heist’ Is a Regressive Take on the Smart City
A cyber security engineer accidentally falls into an online financial conspiracy and has to fight to prove his innocence.
‘Bad Education’ Shows How a Morally Corrupt Society Rots From the Bottom Up
On the night of graduation, three high school students share their most unspeakable secrets, which go way beyond their imagination.
‘Return to Seoul’ Portrays the Plight of the Culturally Rootless
Freddie has many faces, but underneath them all is the cultural rootlessness that drives her self-destructive acting out.
‘The Novelist’s Film’ Reveals the Solitude of the Artist
‘The Novelist’s Film’ shows how the artistic life is incomprehensible to the outsider.