Crazy Rich Asians: reviews, news, and analysis of the huge Hollywood milestone

It’s possible that no Hollywood romantic comedy has hit the big screen bearing more expectations than Crazy Rich Asians. It’s the first contemporary English-language Hollywood movie with an almost all-Asian cast in a quarter-century (the last was 1993’s The Joy Luck Club). And in risk-averse Hollywood, that means the film’s reception has huge implications for Asian and Asian-American actors and filmmakers in all kinds of genres.

That’s a lot of pressure for any film, but especially a romantic comedy — a genre that’s been sidelined for the past decade and is still considered less artistically important than prestige dramas or big-budget action movies.

Thankfully, all that pressure has pressed this film into a diamond: The phrase Crazy Rich Asians fails to convey just how fun and sweet this film is. Perhaps a more appropriate, if prohibitively lengthy, title would be “The Best Movie About Asian People in Decades and the Best Rom-Com of the Summer.”