A terrific and beautifully-shot melodrama full of warmth and pathos as Kore-eda invites and immerses us into the lovely world of three adult sisters and their much younger half-sister who has come to join them.
This is Kore-eda operating at his peak as he delivers one of 2023’s finest films with this intricately-structured and revelatory drama about the blind spots in our understanding of human behaviour and empathy.
It’s more of the same from Kore-eda, but transplanted into a Korean setting, in this heartening mid-tier drama about characters trying to remain human despite not always being on the good side of the law.
Despite its seemingly modest if meta-cinematic setup, Kore-eda’s first film made in the West with big stars reveals layers of subtlety and emotions that creep up genteelly to the surface.
Continue reading →Not his very best, but Kore-eda has an intuitive way of working with children, and this ensemble piece illustrates with delicate ease the filmmaker’s longstanding preoccupation with relational dynamics within the family unit.
Continue reading →Kore-eda changes his own scenery with a genre film in this largely humanistic if didactic legal procedural about a murky murder.
Continue reading →Not one of the master’s finest, but Koreeda’s subtle touch continues to bring warmth and insight to the complexity of modern family relations.
Continue reading →Koreeda’s mastery of the subtle gives this drama an emotional weight as pure as life itself.
Continue reading →One of the year’s very best, this new Koreeda feature is thematically dense, yet plays out in a highly resonating and honest way about human relationships.
Continue reading →Kore-eda’s second fiction feature sees him take on themes of memory and the afterlife through a meta-cinematic lens.
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