Yining Yan

What are Yining Yan's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Yining Yan's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 1 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

• Prime Video1 title, browse their movies on this service
  • Unexpected Family (2026) · writer
• Tubi1 title, browse their movies on this service
  • Unexpected Family (2026) · writer · free

Subscription and free streaming for Yining Yan's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

4 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page.

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  Unexpected Family(2026)

  Writer

  Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films72^nd
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  Detective Chinatown 3(2021)

  Writer

  Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films33^rd
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  Detective Chinatown(2020)

  Show Writer

  Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows36^th
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  Detective Chinatown 2(2018)

  Writer

  Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films47^th

Career shape

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles from 2018 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Detective Chinatown 3 (2021)

$686M worldwide

Highest rated

Unexpected Family (2026)

Midcredits 72^nd

Most popular right now

Detective Chinatown (2020)

How do Yining Yan's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 47^th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 53^rd percentile for acclaim.

Shape of the crowd

None of their 4 titles divides audiences: 2 are Mixed.

112

• Crowd Pleaser1
• Broadly Agreed1
• Mixed2

Most loved · writer

Unexpected Family (2026)

Midcredits 72^nd · 62% liked

Reviewers score the dialogue 43/100 and the plot and story 48/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Yining Yan work with?

People who share at least 2 of Yining Yan's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sicheng Chen shares the most, 3.