Film, television, comedy, and the creators making work that reflects the full complexity of the Asian American experience. We cover what the screen gets right, what it still gets wrong, and the people changing the story.
The best Asian American movies and shows to stream, from Everything Everywhere All at Once and Past Lives to Beef and The Sympathizer, spanning Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Indian, Pakistani, and Vietnamese American stories.
The Furious is a knockout at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Here are five of the best martial arts movies with Asian leads from the 2020s, ranked by critics.
Ten stand-up specials by Asian American comedians, currently streaming on Netflix and HBO. From Ali Wong’s breakthrough to a James Beard newcomer of comedy.
K-pop has conquered American music in one of the most improbable stories in the history of the industry. A genre built on the systematic manufacturing of pop perfection, training programs that last years, synchronized choreography, visual aesthetics governed by very specific standards should not have crossed cultural lines that have historically been nearly impermeable. That…
The three-time Emmy winner is back with an interactive murder mystery that runs on AI — and is forcing the entertainment industry to figure out what AI storytelling can responsibly look like.
Everything Everywhere All at Once did not just win awards. It won them in a way that felt, to many Asian American viewers, like a kind of recognition that had never quite arrived before. The film swept the 2023 Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best…
Asian American comedians have fundamentally changed the landscape of American comedy. For most of American comedy’s history, Asian Americans appeared in one of two positions: as the punchline or as the invisible. The punchline version was well-established — the accent joke, the small-penis joke, the tiger mom joke, the “ching chong” joke. These weren’t always…
When Beef premiered on Netflix in April 2023, something unusual happened: it received the kind of critical reception that serious television rarely gets: near-universal praise, immediate conversation about its formal ambition, and a quick Emmy sweep that validated what viewers had already decided. It was one of the best television shows of the year, possibly…
The K-drama boom has reshaped global entertainment in ways that weren’t predicted even five years ago. Squid Game changed the conversation, but it didn’t start it. Korean dramas had been finding international audiences for years before Netflix’s global phenomenon arrived — through pirated downloads, through fan-subtitled files shared on forums, through the determined effort of…
Asian American experience films have rarely told the truth — until recently. For most of Hollywood’s history, Asian American films barely existed — or when they did, they reduced complex lives to caricature. For most of Hollywood’s history, Asian Americans were either invisible or caricature. The options were limited: the kung fu master, the silent…