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January 13, 2017
Top 10 films of 2016
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This is a top 10 list with a pretty big caveat. I simply do not get the time to go to the cinema with anywhere near the kind of frequency ...
August 13, 2016
Train to Busan (2016)
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Seok-woo is an office-bound Korean workaholic in the middle of an unpleasant divorce from his wife. Seok-woo's daughter Su-an (Kim Su-...
August 9, 2016
The Handmaiden (2016)
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In 1930s Korea a pickpocket named Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) is persuaded by the deceitful Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) to masquerade as a maid...
June 8, 2016
2,000 minutes
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Let's say you had 2,000 minutes that you wanted to spend watching movies. That breaks down to 33 hours and 20 minutes, so you could st...
March 9, 2016
Last Knights (2015)
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It is obvious from the key art used to promote Last Knights on home video that it is what industry types refer to as a 'europudding...
January 7, 2016
Asako in Ruby Shoes (2000)
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U-In (Lee Jung-jae) is a disenfranchised Korean public servant who has a boring life, constantly under-achieves and spends most of his spa...
September 1, 2015
Portrait of a Beauty (2008)
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Shin Yun Bok (Kim Min-sun) is a painter-in-training in 18th century Korea. While skilled and creative, he has two problems. Firstly, he is...
March 22, 2015
Wonderful Days (2003)
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By the mid-22nd century, environmental pollution has all but wiped humanity from the face of the Earth. Now two communities remains: the r...
March 6, 2015
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
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A family arrives in an isolated country house: a father, stepmother and two teenage sisters. From the outset it is clear that something is...
January 2, 2015
The 14 best films of 2014
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Unless you're a professional film critic, and can dedicate much of your working year to seeing every major and independent film releas...
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July 31, 2014
The Day He Arrives (2011)
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If you wanted to write an instruction manual on how to produce the most archetypal bad arthouse movie, you could do a pretty good job just ...
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July 25, 2014
JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
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Park Chan-wook remains one of South Korea’s most acclaimed directors – and deservedly so. JSA: Joint Security Area would seem almost inarg...
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July 18, 2014
Snowpiercer (2013)
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17 years after a catastrophic accident freezes the surface of the Earth, the last survivors of the human race live on the Snowpiercer, a hi...
June 12, 2014
Treeless Mountain (2008)
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Two young girls, Jin and Bin, are unexpectedly sent to live with their aunt while their mother leaves to find their absent father. Before l...
April 6, 2014
I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK (2006)
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Park Chan-wook remains a critical darling with international audiences, many of whom have experienced South Korean cinema either wholly or ...
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April 4, 2014
The Host (2006)
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Let me tell you about The Host . If you’re a fan of monster movies or South Korean cinema, it’s very likely that not only have you heard of...
February 5, 2014
The Restless (2006)
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Originality may take a back seat to the visuals in The Restless , but when they're visuals as pretty as these it's sometimes diffic...
January 23, 2014
Natural City (2003)
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This is hell of a fun movie. Natural City is a Korean sci-fi action flick, boasting buckets of CGI backgrounds, slow-motion kung fu gunfig...
November 15, 2013
Quick (2011)
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Former bike gang leader Han Ki-Su (Lee Min-ki) works as a motorcycle courier. One day, when unwillingly hired to escort his ex-girlfriend ...
February 25, 2013
The Last Stand (2013)
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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest name in cinema. He was one of the most iconic figures in American film,...
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