Bong’s grasp of tone is sometimes suspect, but this is still a fairly entertaining piece with strong ecological and anti-animal abuse themes.
Tag / 2017
Third Murder, The (2017)
Kore-eda changes his own scenery with a genre film in this largely humanistic if didactic legal procedural about a murky murder.
Angels Wear White (2017)
Qu’s second feature is a decent follow-up to ‘Trap Street’ in what is a bleak sociopolitical indictment of the treatment of women in modern society.
On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
In the context of Hong Sang-soo’s extramarital affair with actress Kim Min-hee, the work holds more resonance and significance than its delicate and melancholic style would suggest.
Claire’s Camera (2017)
Too loose and low stakes a film to work in a meaningful way—this is a disappointing effort by Hong Sang-soo.
Killing of a Sacred Deer, The (2017)
Absurdist cinema taken to the extreme, Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a harrowing work that is clinical in execution in more ways than one.
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
A much-needed tonic not just for weary audiences, but for a weary genre, in what is arguably one of the most hilarious movies to come out in recent years.
