This is FRESH AIR. A new action movie shot in China by a Chinese director has a budget of $150 million and an American star. Film critic David Edelstein has this review. DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: "The ...

Legend has it, the Great Wall of China can be seen from space. "The Great Wall" opens with that long shot from orbit, zooming in, swooping over computer-generated Asian landscapes. The backdrop ...

It’s impossible to watch TV right now and not see an ad for The Great Wall. It’s also impossible to tell from the ads exactly what the movie is about. It’s an advertising trick we in the media like to ...

Zhang Yimou has made some of the most ravishingly beautiful films to come out of China. “Raise the Red Lantern,” “House of Flying Daggers,” and “Hero” are movies that are lavishly sensual in their use ...

Matt Damon stars in the fantasy epic 'The Great Wall,' directed by Zhang Yimou. (Jasin Boland/Universal) Especially now, you might think a movie titled "The Great Wall" would have something topical or ...

I am a Delhi-based journalist working for the Edit Page of The Times of India. I recently treated myself to a screening of the movie The Great Wall – China’s most expensive film till date and the ...

There is an alternate timeline wherein the image of a large wall keeping monsters at bay might not be soured by notions of contemporary xenophobia; where Matt Damon didn’t white-mansplain diversity to ...

The counterfeiters responsible for the bogus Tao Tei beverages didn't try too hard to make the product look genuine, but consumers were fooled nevertheless. The fakes could be easily identified from ...

Matt Damon is one of the most popular American movie stars of his generation. Similarly, Zhang Yimou is a filmmaker of supreme technical and emotional skill, which he’s been showing off consistently ...

opens with that long shot from orbit, zooming in, swooping over computer-generated Asian landscapes. The backdrop eventually transitions seamlessly to scenery of the type that exists in our ...

Matt Damon plays an accomplished bow-and-arrow warrior in ancient China in his latest film. Critic David Edelstein says The Great Wall is "lavishly ... terrible." This is FRESH AIR. A new action movie ...