Brandon Yu

Los Angeles, San Jose

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

writer // film critic @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @VanityFair, @RollingStone, @variety, @sfchronicle, etc. // brandonyu27{at}gmail

Articles

The Student Becomes the Teacher

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

The latest installment to the long-running franchise is a messy entry that tries to throw too many legacies into a blender. Karate Kid: LegendsDirected by Jonathan Entwistle Action, Drama, Family, SportPG-131h 34mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
Reseña de 'Lilo y Stitch': un caos tierno y veloz

2 weeks ago | infobae.com | Brandon Yu

Animated FilmsCamp, Dean FleischerGalifianakis, ZachSanders, Chris (Film Director)Lilo & Stitch (Movie)Lilo & Stitch (2025) (Movie)El remake de acción real de la exitosa película de Disney de 2002 es en su mayor parte entretenida y a menudo adorable, aun cuando las mejores partes de la original se hayan quedado atrás.
un caos tierno y veloz

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

El remake de acción real de la exitosa película de Disney de 2002 es en su mayor parte entretenida y a menudo adorable, aun cuando las mejores partes de la original se hayan quedado atrás. Lilo y Stitch. Credit...
‘Lilo & Stitch’ Review: Creature Chaos

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Brandon Yu

1 day agoThe singing competition has had upsets before, but Sunday’s finale reminded everyone that a smart song strategy and being vulnerable with the audience pays off. Jamal Roberts certainly seemed like a front-runner on “American Idol” this season, and judge Luke Bryan had a “gut feeling” he would take …
Opinião | ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow‘: NYT diz que filme de The Weeknd é ‘videoclipe prolongado’ e ‘vazio’

3 weeks ago | estadao.com.br | Brandon Yu

Por baixo da adrenalina vívida de Blinding Lights, de The Weeknd, que a Billboard classificou como a música número 1 de todos os tempos em 2021, há realmente uma história de vazio, explica Anima (Jenna Ortega). Uma super fã do cantor, ela conta isso ao próprio The Weeknd (também conhecido como Abel Tesfaye) — enquanto as mãos dele estão amarradas aos postes da cama em um quarto de hotel.
Five Free Movies to Stream Now

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

In films like "Embrace of the Serpent," you'll find stories about history and power. Here's a rundown of what's currently on Tubi, Plex and PlutoTV. In the frantic dark, a canoe carrying a shaman and an explorer makes its way across the Amazon River. Rounding one bend, the canoe re-emerges a moment later, carrying still the shaman but this time with another explorer, decades later.
The Weeknd's Overextended Music Video

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

A filmic companion to the Weeknd's latest album, this meta psychological thriller is all style and no substance. Beneath the lurid adrenaline of the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights," which Billboard classified as the No. 1 song of all time in 2021, is really a story of emptiness, explains Anima (Jenna Ortega). A superfan of the singer, she tells this to the Weeknd (a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye) himself - while his hands are bound to the bedposts in a hotel room.
Five Free Movies to Stream Now

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

In films like Andrew Haigh's "Weekend," you'll find new beginnings in time for spring. Here's a rundown of what's currently on Tubi, Plex and PlutoTV. Spring, with its blooms and many unfurlings, is a time of awakening. Yet birth and renewal also means being confronted with the cold light of day. The early seconds of Josephine Decker's 2018 film "Madeline's Madeline" opens on a theater exercise that doubles as a kind of transformation for its teenage protagonist.
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: Block by Bizarre Block

1 month ago | myheraldreview.com | Brandon Yu

Occasionally, amid the cycles of nostalgic clip-sharing that periodically occur online, you might happen upon the Berries and Cream video. The viral Starburst commercial, involving a briefcase-toting pilgrimesque lad, is a concise distillation of the particular brand of mid-to-late-aughts humor that dominated the early internet: quaintly absurd, silly, and above all, random.
'Sacramento' Review: Best Frenemies

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Brandon Yu

In this warmly funny indie comedy, two friends with a complicated past confront their grief and anxieties on a California road trip. SacramentoDirected by Michael Angarano ComedyR1h 29mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.