Blue Bayou premieres in theaters on Sept. 17, 2021. Immigration stories told on film are almost always emotional wringers. Even if the person arrives in their new country with relative ease and no ...

Blue Bayou (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Justin Chon and starring Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Emory Cohen, Geraldine ...

Since making her English-language debut in 2012's "Anna Karenina," the Swedish actress has dazzled audiences playing sentient robots ("Ex Machina") and action heroes ("Tomb Raider"), winning the 2016 ...

With “Blue Bayou,” filmmaker Justin Chon is shining a light on what is a very sad situation, one many may find surprising. The drama — which he wrote, directed and stars in — is the story of a man ...

Filmmaker Justin Chon has built an impressive oeuvre over the past six years. An actor who broke out in the “Twilight” franchise, he has since dedicated his craft to writing and directing ...

Filmmaker Justin Chon has built an impressive oeuvre over the past six years. An actor who broke out in the “Twilight” franchise, he has since dedicated his craft to writing and directing ...

The well-intentioned but emotionally overwrought "Blue Bayou" takes an underexplored issue — the deportation of immigrant adoptees — and lays the melodrama on so thick that it's suffocating to the ...

From the director of acclaimed independent films “Gook” and “Ms. Purple,” “Blue Bayou,” tells the story of a uniquely American family, faced with a devastating dilemma. Justin Chon directs, wrote and ...

Sean Baker‘s “Red Rocket” won a pair of prizes at the 47th Deauville American Film Festival where “Blue Bayou,” “Down With the King,” “Pleasure” and “John and the Hole” also picked up awards during ...

A striking series of images pass late into Lamb, a chilly domestic drama directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, in which the lead actors Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason raise a lamb/human hybrid named ...

Justin Chon’s immigration melodrama counters its soggy storytelling with deeply felt performances. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...

Earlier this hour, we talked about the difficulty of fixing an immigration system that just about everybody says is broken. Here's another look at that issue through a very different lens, the new ...