4 stars out of 5 -- Benjamin Kracun’s impressive cinematography captures just how hard Vietnam is trying to move on from its painful history.

A beautifully empathetic look at the immigrant experiences, of being of two places but feeling like you belong to neither. Thoughtful, delicate and graceful. Full Review

This is a thoroughly personal film....Driven more by mood than plot, the movie spends a great deal of time absorbing the sights and sounds of the former Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and, later, Hanoi.

Rating: 3/4 -- ...serves as a thoughtful exploration of a life displaced and a more than worthy vehicle for Golding's evolving talents. Full Review

[T]his is a fascinating and thoughtful follow-up to Khaou's well-received debut feature...

Rating: 4/4 -- Quietly shattering in its ruminations on cultural displacement, Monsoon is a stunning portrait of a man in limbo. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- It's all very delicately done, which may be the problem. Khaou is so intent on not being obvious about anything he wants to say that the dilemmas and dissatisfactions of the immigrant experience get lost among the subtleties.