Justin Lin’s controversial new film, “Better Luck Tomorrow,” has Asian-Americans across the coasts raving about finally puncturing the model minority myth that Asians are honorary whites whose boldest ...

Janet Wang was a junior in high school when she watched “Better Luck Tomorrow,” a movie about a group of high-achieving Asian American high schoolers with a penchant for theft and murder.

Better Luck Tomorrow set the tone today." Beyond its vague connections as a distant Fast & Furious pseudo-prequel (as the first film in which Sung Kang plays a handsome enigma named "Han"), Better ...

Overachieving California teens start to cheat, steal, sell drugs and worse. Director Justin Lin's striking debut film has a twist: This time the kids are Asian-Americans. But Lin isn't a gimmick baby.

The Fast and the Furious wasn’t even out when Lin was co-writing Better Luck Tomorrow with Ernesto Foronda and Fabian Marquez. The movie is a crime drama about high schoolers in California and a ...

When it comes to Hollywood odd couples, Paramount Pictures and MTV Films are right up there with Miramax and Disney. The conventional 90-year-old studio and the music channel’s hipster film ...

Before working on Fast & Furious together, Lin and Kang worked together on the 2002 film, Better Luck Tomorrow, which explores Asian-American overachiever characters who begin to get involved in ...

Such honesty is offset by the film's dishonesty. Like countless teen-comedy trifles, Better Luck Tomorrow is absurdly parent-free, and its 17- or 18-year-old students are played by actors in their ...