Always Be My Maybe

Transmitting Culture: A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers

an Asian couple walks through San Francisco together in Always Be My Maybe
by Margaret Rhee
October 11, 2019 at 1:55pm
Always Be My Maybe, Searching, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their children, family, and friends.
an Asian couple walks through San Francisco together in Always Be My Maybe

Love, Factually: “Always Be My Maybe” Updates the Rom-Com Formula with Cultural Specificity and Heart

by Aline Dolinh
June 19, 2019 at 1:47pm
The best rom-coms make their predictability feel not like a weakness, but like a giddily essential pleasure. Read more »
an Asian couple dressed in a gold dress and a tattered, checkered suit attend a gala together

“Always Be My Maybe” Lets Its Asian Characters Simply Exist

by Bitch HQ
June 17, 2019 at 11:48am
Always Be My Maybe features characters that are only incidentally Asian. Read more »