Reviews
The Wandering Earth 2 Surpasses First
The world was a very different place when The Wandering Earth came out in 2019, and The Wandering Earth 2 meets our changed world…
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Missing Shows Screenlife is Here to Stay
Screenlife is here to stay, thanks to Timur Bekmambetov. A Kazakh-Russian director and producer, Bekmambetov is responsible for what’s likely…
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“Glorious” and “Gloomy”: The Drug King and President Park Chung-hee
No film has quite definitively evaluated the Park presidency-dictatorship quite like Woo’s 2018 drug themed crime drama, The Drug King.
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Humanism and Childlike Fun in Shin Ultraman
I remember walking out of the theater from Iron Man (2008) as a child, pushing the tips of my fingers to their…
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Broker is Kore-eda’s Anti-Manichean Masterpiece
Despite being completely snubbed at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards, South Korea’s more popular film award ceremony, the Japanese…
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Infernal Affairs and the Dark Night of the Soul
One thing I find displeasing about the contemporary Western cinematic landscape is its visual flakiness. The best shots of our…
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Oscar Goff’s Best Reviews of the Year
“One of the defining aspects of criticism is that the critic approaches the work with a set of standards, or…
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In the Mood for Love Approaches the Canon
I’ll never understand completionist critics. It’s better, they would have it, to see 10 unique films than only eight unique…
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My Top Ten Films of 2022
Damn, it was a good year for the movies. 2022 was my best year with new releases since at least…
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Special Delivery is Serviceable but not Special
An intentional riff on Baby Driver staring Park So-dam and Jung Hyeon-jun, two of the most internationally recognizable faces working in Korean…
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The Love of Cinema and Last Film Show
“I want to study light. Because light becomes stories. Stories become films.” India’s entry at this year’s Academy Award for…
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