It’s not just a film, it’s where our love affair with Thai cinema/culture began.

Before Tropical Malady, before Ong-Bak, before any of it — there was Citizen Dog. And it hit us like a song we didn’t know we’d been waiting to hear. A love story that floats, flirts, and doesn’t follow any rules. A city portrait that turns Bangkok into a candy-colored surrealist maze. A movie where logic dissolves, but heart never does.

Yes, the narrative jumps like a…

In 2008, Chocolate felt like a revelation. A young autistic girl performing brutal Muay Thai combos with wide eyes and no wires — it was impossible not to be impressed. It felt fresh.

Rewatching it now, it’s harder to ignore how poorly the film has aged or even was made...

Yes, JeeJa Yanin still shines. Her physical commitment is undeniable, throwing herself through glass, steel, bodies. She brings something strangely tender to the violence. You want to root for her.…

Phuttipong Nakthong seems committed to building something — a cinematic universe, of sorts — rooted in Thailand’s underbelly. After 4 Kings and its sequel, this feels like the next chapter in his exploration of Thai masculinity in confinement, both literal and emotional. This time, the vocational schoolyards have given way to prison yards. Brotherhood is tested behind bars.

The premise is clear from the first frame — this is an action drama, complete with prison brawls, coded loyalties, and stylized…

There’s no denying the ambition here. By the Time It Gets Dark wants to rethink how we process memory, history, and the very act of filmmaking itself. It’s a film about stories that resist being told — about the unreliability of representation, and how trauma, especially political trauma, never really fits the frame.

Anocha Suwichakornpong builds a meta-cinematic labyrinth: stories within stories, characters recast mid-narrative, timelines that dissolve and reset without warning. It’s all deliberately disorienting — and often effective.…