Justin Lin is no stranger to making movies built around spectacle. After all, he directed more Fast & Furious movies than any director working today before stepping away from the franchise (twice). He ...

By trying to be "all things to all people" — wanting to both affirm murdered missionary John Chau's humanity and criticize ...

This was, more or less, the trajectory Justin Lin found himself on when his feature debut Better Luck Tomorrow premiered at Sundance in 2002. The movie, about a group of high-achieving suburban ...

Keanu Reeves helped Justin Lin get his indie film Last Days, about murdered missionary John Chau, off the ground.

That’s the mystery director Justin Lin attempts to solve with “Last Days,” prompting an unexpected return to Sundance more than two decades after “Better Luck Tomorrow” launched his ...

Meanwhile, Justin Lin returned to Sundance with “Last Days,” his sensationalized dramatization of true-life travel turned tragic parable. In 2018, 26-year-old American John Allen Chau died ...

The film currently seeking distribution marks a striking artistic return to form for Lin; here’s hoping he continues to resist the urge to blow things up for a while. Based on Alex Perry ...

Yet all the promise of this premise is squandered in Lin’s adaptation, which in style and structure hews to hackneyed convention at every turn. After a brief overture flashing forward to this ...

But the 2025 festival sees Lin return to his indie roots, with his latest feature, Last Days. Last Days, which bows at Sundance on Jan. 28, tells the story of John Allen Chau, a Christian ...

Justin Lin is no stranger to making movies built around spectacle. After all, he directed more Fast & Furious movies than any director working today before stepping away from the franchise (twice).