• Extreme Job

    Dec 4, 2021

    What starts as an amusing, quirky action comedy goes off the rails around the hour mark, the makers falling foul of the obscure law of Korean blockbusters that means that they MUST have a duration of two hours or over.

  • Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

    Jun 7, 2015

    It doesn’t deliver as much as it promises and doesn’t quite hit the mark as a complete unit due to a less cohesive second half and not enough time spent establishing Dong-Jin’s character.

  • The Front Line

    Mar 15, 2015

    Wisely building to the big combat scenes, ‘The Front Line’ lets us, the viewer, get to know the characters and watch them transform through their actions and what they must go through to survive.

  • The Quiz Show Scandal

    May 16, 2015

    ‘The Quiz Show Scandal’ is a keenly-observed comic creation. As nutty as a Korean version of ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World’ should be while also succeeding in pulling off moments of mordant wit.

  • The Thieves

    Jun 10, 2015

    ‘The Thieves’ is the kind of bloated, star-studded jolly up that you may have been mistaken for thinking that Hollywood had copyrighted.

  • The Villainess

    Jun 11, 2018

    As much a twisty-turny drama as an all out action flick, ‘The Villainess’ overdoes both its noble attempts at gritty drama and action technical wizardry.

  • Thirst

    Jun 10, 2015

    ‘Thirst’ is an enjoyable but flawed experience, a stark, spooky drama with lashings of gallows humour that make up for its slight dips in story and style.

  • Welcome To Dongmakgol

    Jun 25, 2015

    Witty, moving and, most important of all considering its intentions, scathing without jaundiced polemic, this is a remarkable film.