Thai cinema earned global attention in the 2000s through the bone-crunching stunt work of Tony Jaa, with Ong-Bak putting Bangkok onto the action map in spectacular fashion. More recently, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies showed a quieter, more emotional side to Thai filmmaking, winning hearts across Southeast Asia and beyond. See what Macca made of these and more below.
Rating: 1.0★
There is a particular corner of low-budget genre filmmaking where Thailand and the United States occasionally meet, producing co-productions that are a little difficult to categorise and often equally difficult to track down. Dead Earth, released in 2020 under the banner of Kaos Entertainment, sits firmly in that
Rating: 4.0★
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupies a singular corner of world cinema, one that tends to divide audiences cleanly into the devoted and the bewildered. His work operates at a frequency all its own: unhurried, sensory, preoccupied with memory, landscape, and the thin membrane between the living and whatever comes after.
Rating: 2.0★
There are films made for the multiplex, films made for the festival circuit, and then films that seem to exist in a category entirely their own. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) falls squarely into that third group. Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known affectionately to critics and
Genre Drama
★ — Only God Forgives (2013)
Genre Action
★½ — Street Fighter (1994)
Genre Action
★★★ — Ong-Bak (2003)
Genre Drama
★★★★½ — How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
Genre Horror
★★ — Ziam (2025)
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