The Sympathizer
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Pyramid Game
Dir. Park So-yeon
High school can be an incredibly cruel place, but it’s not as systematically cruel as the Baekyeon Girls’ High School…
Doctor Slump
Even before the worldwide pandemic, the field of medicine isn’t anymore the straightforward profession it used to be. It’s still…
Flex x Cop
Dir. Kim Jae-hong
With plenty of familiar elements, Flex X Cop should feel unoriginal. After all, a rich heir that plays at being…
The Killing Vote
Dir. Park Shin-woo
The Killing Vote takes the “vote to kill” storyline and pairs an anonymous vigilante with an ambitious yet apathetic officer,…
The Kidnapping Day
Dir. Park Yoo-young
Genuinely exciting but with more than enough heart to keep its genre trappings from overwhelming the story, The Kidnapping Day…
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
For the unfamiliar, isekai is the fantasy subgenre where a character is transported into a different world. Usually, this is…
A Shop for Killers
Dir. Lee Kwon & Noh Gyoo-yeob
For better or for worse, we don’t know who our guardians really are, whether that be our parents or other…
Return to Seoul
Dir. Davy Chou
In both documentaries and films, adoptees meeting their biological parents for the first time is an event often painted in…
