Showing posts with label 류승범. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Review: INTIMATE ENEMIES Marks Low-Point For Im Sang-soo


By Pierce Conran

In a bid to branch out to a wider audience following the tepid critical and commercial response to 2012's The Taste of Money, director Im Sang-soo returned with the spirited but borderline incoherent action-comedy Intimate Enemies in 2015.

Friday, September 1, 2017

Review: THE NET Is a Simple Catch from Kim Ki-duk


By Pierce Conran

Complex issues get a facile treatment in The Net, the latest work from Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk. More coherent than his last two outings but a far cry from his best work, Kim's film comes off as little more than a simplistic sermon brought to life through routine indie specs.