Run time: 139 mins

Move over Doctor Strange, this is the real multiverse MVP. The directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert catapult us through a myriad of realities in this bonkers yet heartwarming yarn.

The film introduces a Chinese American family that owns a laundromat: the short-tempered Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) who is having a midlife crisis; her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) who feels neglected in their failing marriage; and their daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) who struggles with Evelyn’s intolerance of her basic identities.

While the dysfunctional family tries to juggle Evelyn’s father Gong Gong’s (James Hong) birthday party and a tax audit of their family business by an IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis) Evelyn is given the opportunity to universe-jump and experience her alternate lives.

Challenging our linear notions of time and space, the film brings Yeoh’s breathtaking range to the fore. As she engages in a number of escapades whilst  transitioning into her many personas, the action and spectacle ramps up to the point where you’re convinced this is a mega-budgeted blockbuster. But unlike most blockbusters, it has heart and soul to boot.