Adele Lim's "Joy Ride" is a comedy celebrating women embracing their desires, packaged as a lively and unrestrained story about family, friends, and self-acceptance. This frank, sexually open film will likely cause discomfort for some viewers—particularly those with traditional views—and it’s worth experiencing every moment of that. A more fitting title might have been "Crazy Horny Asians." Four Asian-American fri…

The promotional material didn’t initially grab my attention. Thankfully, what followed proved the fault lay with whoever created those previews, because the movie itself is surprisingly good—among the better entries in its category. The story focuses on "Audrey" (Ashley Park), who needs to go to China to finalize a valuable business agreement if she wants to become a partner at her company. Against better judgment, s…

I don't usually go for humor that's crude or overtly sexual, but when it’s clever, inventive, and genuinely original, I notice—and this first film from writer-director Adele Lim certainly grabs attention right from the opening line and doesn’t let up. This fast-paced comedy centers on four young Asian women (Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Sabrina Wu, Stephanie Hsu) as they embark on a wild road trip across China that grad…