The dramatic moments are convincing mostly because of the good acting achievements and the well-crafted groundwork created by the well-written characters. Kang Seok-beom...
Thriller
The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale (2016), An often moving fable about fatherhood, nature and mysterious respect.
“The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale” is a visually impressive and very entertaining action film, that fans of Hollywood blockbusters are bound to love...
If you’re in the mood for South Korean folklore and a really creepy sensory aspect… why not try this one out. Korean writer director Huh Jung returns for the...
Call it cornball for the way this ostensible black comedy morphs into a family tearjerker, but I defy you not to be moved by its literal bromance. For once, a K-movie...
Action
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019), pulls off its familiar twists and turns with style and verve.
Like so many of the genre that hail from Seoul and its suburbs, this one punches well above its weight with an inventive reworking of well-worn plot tropes and slick...
A remake of the 2012 Spanish film The Body, directed by Oriol Paulo, the thriller doesn’t just simply ask the question. “The Vanished” is a thriller...
Horror
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), definitely a satisfying piece of less-is-more cinematic horror.
The atmosphere of mounting dread is matched by just-right performances, design and camerawork. This is a carefully structured film about grief and guilt, as well as...
It’s a period caper set in the late-eighteenth century, and replaces the targeted diamond of The Thieves with a more literal kind of ice which a corrupt official is...
The kind of sleek, precisely constructed genre work that’s gone missing from American summer movies. NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD is yet another addition to an exemplary...
It’s rare to find a horror that’s both frightening and genuinely moving, though The Closet pulls this off with confidence, and is all the more effective for...