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The Raid: Redemption (2011) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : A relentless action film with high body count

Posted on May 19, 2012 by kaist455

“The Raid: Redemption” will be the most single-minded and simple-minded action flick of this year. Until it finally arrives at its ending, the movie relentlessly and ruthlessly pushes its minimalistic premise to the extreme with its sole purpose – killing … Continue reading →

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Le Havre (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A small tale in one French port city

Posted on December 18, 2011 by kaist455

It is now late December, and it is getting colder here in South Korea. The shabby arthouse theater I visited in the last evening was a cold place with a very few audiences at that time(Besides me, there were only … Continue reading →

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Animal Kingdom (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : “Have you worked out where you fit?”

Posted on November 27, 2011 by kaist455

While revisiting David Michôd’s “Animal Kingdom”(2010), I wondered what it was like for its passive teenager hero to live with his heroin addict mother at their small home. We can only assume that she definitely could not get the Mother … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Bone (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Her desperate determination in cold, harsh world

Posted on January 24, 2011 by kaist455

 Although its story is driven by a mystery surrounding certain missing person, the mystery only serves as a trigger for something far more than itself in “Winter’s Bone”. While we follow its heroine’s plight and wait for the answer to … Continue reading →

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Under the Volcano (1984) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : One Alcoholic Day

Posted on November 2, 2010 by kaist455

 Spending almost two hours with the relentlessly drunk character is not a pleasant thing at all, and it is also not easy to watch the man who chooses to abandon himself to his own hell. He is almost near at … Continue reading →

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The Unjust (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Mean System

Posted on October 30, 2010 by kaist455

  There is one scene that strikes me hard in the middle of “The Unjust”. It is one of many unjust things happening on the screen, but none of two main characters who occupy that scene is someone we are … Continue reading →

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