‘Old Fox’ Review: A Mostly Compelling Taiwanese Melodrama Offers an Important Lesson About Values 

Set in Taipei, against the backdrop of the economic bubble of 1989, the Taiwanese international feature Oscar submission “Old Fox” is a relatively engaging popular melodrama about altruism vs. self-interest and inequality of all sorts. In his fourth feature, director Hsiao Ya-Chuan follows the unsentimental education of a motherless 11-year-old boy, Liao Jie (Bai Run-yin), raised in […]