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Category Archives: Movies
Woman of the Hour (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Appearing with a serial killer on TV
Anna Kendrick’s first feature film “Woman of the Hour”, which was released on Netflix on last Friday, chillingly examines sexism via an unbelievable story associated with one real-life serial killer in US during the late 1970s. Yes, as shown from … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Performer, Real-life figure, Real-life story, serial killer, TV show
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The Last of the Sea Woman (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): The Women and the Sea
Documentary film “The Last of the Sea Woman”, which is currently available on Apple TV+, is about a group of South Korean women who have worked as “haenyeo”, which means “Sea Woman” in Korean. For earning their living via collecting … Continue reading
The Shadow Strays (2024) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Extremely violent and incredibly excessive
Indonesian action thriller film “The Shadow Strays”, which was released on Netflix on last Thursday, is extremely violent and incredibly excessive. While it continues the trend of those bloody and violent Indonesian action flicks mainly represented by “The Raid: Redemption” … Continue reading
Tokyo Twilight (1957) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A bleak family melodrama from Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu’s final black and white film “Tokyo Twilight” is quite bleak compared to many of his gentler movies. Yes, as I observed in my recent review on “Tokyo Story” (1953), there is always a subtle sense of sadness and … Continue reading
Saving a Dragonfly (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Painfully personal
South Korean documentary film “Saving a Dragonfly” is painfully personal at times. It initially looks like as an innocuous personal project recording what was the most important period in the director and her classmates’ last high school year, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged College, Documentary, High School, Real-life figure, Real-life story, South Korean Film
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Paper Man (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A life on cardboard
South Korean independent film “Paper Man” works best when it humorously focuses on its pathetically desperate hero’s efforts for restarting his life. While we are sometimes amused by his comic struggles along the story, we come to care about this … Continue reading
No Heaven, But Love (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A modest high school queer romance film
I could not help but get distracted more than once as watching South Korean independent film “No Heaven, But Love”. While it mostly works as a modest but intimate high school queer romance film, the movie is rather uneven on … Continue reading
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Tagged Athlete, High School, High Schooler, Homosexuality, Romance, South Korean Film
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Debt (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A little comedy about debt
When I saw South Korean independent comedy film “Debt” early in this morning, two audiences sitting behind me, who were incidentally the only other audiences in the screening besides me, frequently chuckled from the beginning to the end. I wish … Continue reading
A Normal Family (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): They need to talk about their kids
South Korean film “A Normal Family” is a darkly tense drama about the two different couples facing a serious moral issue involved with their respective kids. As they become conflicted more over their shared matter, the movie coldly exposes more … Continue reading
Dirty Money (2024) ☆☆(2/4): A clumsy genre product
I do not mind watching movies about unlikable characters, but South Korean thriller film “Dirty Money” did not engage me at all. The movie is not only utterly contrived but also quite mediocre in terms of story and characters, and … Continue reading
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