HanCinema
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Panos Kotzathanasis, William Schwartz
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
6.5/10
Three Sisters (2021)
2
7/10
Seire (2021)
3
6.5/10
Climbing (2020)
4
The Medium (2021)
Genuinely intriguing presentation is mostly ruined when the story moves on to more boilerplate exorcist stuff.
Posted Dec 26, 2021
5
Vivo (2021)
6
One Second (2020)
7
You can also see flashes of tragic resignation in Ha Ji-won's performance that were much more effectively utilized in her later melodramatic career.
Posted Oct 1, 2021
8
6.5/10
Ten Months (2020)
9
6/10
Snowball (2020)
10
Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
"Escape from Mogadishu" is a great action movie that also works very well on a contextual level, due to the plethora of sociopolitcal elements included.
Posted Aug 12, 2021
11
Phone (Pon) (2002)
Phone is at best a historical curiousity...it's not a movie that's much worth watching in any case.
Posted Aug 4, 2021
12
Mi-seu-teo Go (Mr. Go) (2013)
Mr. Go is a delightfully whimsical movie, noteworthy mainly for its surprisingly sincere depiction of a generally absurd situation.
Posted Aug 4, 2021
13
Dragon Wars (2007)
D-War is a complete waste of time that shouldn't be watched by anyone, for any reason.
Posted Aug 4, 2021
14
The 8th Night (2021)
The 8th Night is not a particularly weird movie, although there's definite menace in the atmosphere.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
15
Inside the Red Brick Wall (2020)
Pre-familiarity with the subject matter is clearly assumed with the editing, to the point that the documentaries are nearly useless to viewers hoping to be educated.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
16
Plan B (2021)
17
Unique in its sheer mundanity, reading like a part of a hobo's obituary.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
18
Seobok: Project Clone (2021)
The grim, impersonal nature of the stakes in SEOBOK make for a powerful representation of suicidal impulses.
Posted May 3, 2021
19
Troubleshooter (2012)
20
Night in Paradise (2020)
Night in Paradise is overly long, poorly edited, and lacks bite. Even strong action scenes can't compensate for the trite melodrama.
Posted May 3, 2021
21
Introduction (2021)
"INTRODUCTION" continues the legacy of Hong Sang-soo, in his usual style everyone seems to enjoy, particularly when the duration is measured.
Posted Apr 11, 2021
22
"Our Twisted Hero" is an excellent adaptation, and an overall quite convincing effort of combining school drama with political allegory.
Posted Apr 11, 2021
23
Another Public Enemy (2005)
24
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Therein lies the fundamental absurdity that defines the film. The characters in Welcome to Dongmakgol all want to do evil, yet often have to be talked into it.
Posted Mar 24, 2021
25
The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
The production team pulls no punches when it comes to the terrifying nonsense of war
Posted Mar 24, 2021
26
1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
27
A Werewolf Boy (2012)
In excellent subversive faction, it's the feral boy that really connects with the viewer on screen.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
28
Space Sweepers (2021)
29
A Special Lady (Mi-ok) (2017)
30
A Dog's Courage (2020)
What starts out as a story of survival turns into an odyssey, at the clear expense of a well defined moral message.
Posted Jan 11, 2021
31
The Call (Kol) (2020)
32
Five Marines (1961)
33
The Woman Who Ran (2021)
Hong Sang-soo directs a movie that, once more, focuses on the details of everyday life, even including the mundanity that is associated with the lives of the "unremarkable"
Posted Dec 20, 2020
34
Me and Me (2020)
35
BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky (2020)
36
Fukuoka (2019)
Zhang Lu's characters persist in the dreamlike world that can only really be described as existing in a foreign country.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
37
The Swordsman (2020)
Writer/director Choi Jae-hoon has crafted a surprisingly ruminative and moody action flick about power and politics.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
38
An Old Lady (2019)
More than being about sexual assault and elder abuse as hot button issues, An Old Lady is a character study.
Posted Oct 30, 2020
39
Between The Seasons (2018)
40
41
Jesters: The Game Changers (2019)
42
Beauty Water (2020)
43
Steel Rain (2017)
While consistently excellent in individual sections, the ambiguous genre mix of Steel Rain does a lot to dilute the impact.
Posted Oct 1, 2020
44
Excellent self-critical stuff, the kind of movie a person could use to remind themselves that breaking up with an ex-lover was probably the smartest possible move.
Posted Oct 1, 2020
45
#Alive (2020)
#ALIVE plays its setting too safe, and while the end product is certainly watchable, it's ultimately nothing special.
Posted Sep 30, 2020
46
"Peninsula" is a film that aims to entertain and to sell tickets, and in that regard, it is easy to say that it succeeds to the fullest. In terms of context, though, not so much.
Posted Sep 27, 2020
47
The Wrath (2019)
48
The Dude in Me (2019)
49
Swallowtail Butterfly is a beautiful film that suffers much from its extended duration and the fact that Iwai tried to include many more elements than he actually could.
Posted Jul 26, 2020
50