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Tag Archives: Crime
Greenhouse (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): She has desperate issues…
South Korean film “Greenhouse” is mainly about one deeply troubled woman’s misery and despair – and how she comes to resort to some serious criminal measures because of that. While it is rather typical in terms of story and character, … Continue reading
Smugglers (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Female divers who become smugglers
South Korean film “Smugglers” simply has a fun with juggling its various colorful criminal characters, and I enjoyed that. Although you can clearly see where it is sailing right from the start, you will gladly go along with that while … Continue reading
They Cloned Tyrone (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): They indeed did…
Netflix film “They Cloned Tyrone”, which was released yesterday, is a modest genre mix which is often very familiar but also engaging enough in its own way. Definitely reminiscent of a bunch of notable African American films ranging from those … Continue reading
Emily the Criminal (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): As she tumbles into crime
“Emily the Criminal”, which is currently available on Netflix in South Korea, follows a young desperate woman who happens to tumble into crime out of her growing financial desperation. As phlegmatically observing her criminal descent, the movie slowly builds up … Continue reading
God’s Creatures (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): After her son returns
It took some time for me to get accustomed to what “God’s Creatures” attempts to achieve. Subtly shrouded in moody disturbance, this little Irish psychological drama slowly and gradually unnerves us as its ordinary heroine comes to realize something horrible … Continue reading
Missing (2021) ☆☆☆(3/4): Gone Father
It is rather difficult to describe the plot of “Missing”, a dark and disturbing Japanese mystery thriller film which pulls some surprises for us as unexpectedly shifting from one narrative point to another. I will be discreet here as much … Continue reading
Crown Heights (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): A harrowing real-life drama of legal injustice
“Crown Heights”, which is currently available on Amazon Prime, presents a harrowing drama based on one infuriating real-life case of legal injustice. Alternating between one wrongfully incarcerated man and his best friend willing to help him as much as possible … Continue reading
Confess, Fletch (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Fletch returns…
Gregory Mcdonald’s “Fletch” was one of numerous pulpy stuffs I gladly devoured during my wild and crazy childhood years in the 1990s. It is too bad that any of McDonald’s following sequel novels was not translated in South Korea, but … Continue reading
Tori and Lokita (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): A grim refugee thriller from the Dardenne brothers
The Dardenne brothers’ latest film “Tori and Lokita”, which received the special 75th Anniversary Award when it was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival early in last year, is another solid social drama to distinguish their long and admirable filmmaking … Continue reading
Next Door (2022) ☆1/2(1.5/4): “Why don’t you just call the police first, you idiot?”
Yesterday, I went to my dentist uncle for my routine scaling and a bit of dental treatment, and I had to deal with the possibility of physical stress and pain although everything turned out to be fairly fine on the … Continue reading
