
"[A] surprisingly stirring drama about family honor and loyalties....THE HOST evolves into that rare horror film that's also inconsolably poignant."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]art of what makes it so enjoyable is how much stuff it contains while never losing sight of its prime directive, which is to thrill and terrify."Premiere "This wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "There is an appealingly absurdist quality to the film but also a dark undertone that taps into deeply held fears of monsters..."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[The film defines] horror for the new millennium. This you have to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] darkly comic, bittersweet, tragic monster movie about a family's attempts to rescue a little girl from a mutant creature..."Total Film "A delicious, often darkly funny combination of monster movie and dysfunctional family drama..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he digital effects and direction are both stunning..."Ultimate DVD29.28984
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"[A] surprisingly stirring drama about family honor and loyalties....THE HOST evolves into that rare horror film that's also inconsolably poignant."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]art of what makes it so enjoyable is how much stuff it contains while never losing sight of its prime directive, which is to thrill and terrify."Premiere "This wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "There is an appealingly absurdist quality to the film but also a dark undertone that taps into deeply held fears of monsters..."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[The film defines] horror for the new millennium. This you have to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] darkly comic, bittersweet, tragic monster movie about a family's attempts to rescue a little girl from a mutant creature..."Total Film "A delicious, often darkly funny combination of monster movie and dysfunctional family drama..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he digital effects and direction are both stunning..."Ultimate DVD29.28984
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"[A] surprisingly stirring drama about family honor and loyalties....THE HOST evolves into that rare horror film that's also inconsolably poignant."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]art of what makes it so enjoyable is how much stuff it contains while never losing sight of its prime directive, which is to thrill and terrify."Premiere "This wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "There is an appealingly absurdist quality to the film but also a dark undertone that taps into deeply held fears of monsters..."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[The film defines] horror for the new millennium. This you have to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] darkly comic, bittersweet, tragic monster movie about a family's attempts to rescue a little girl from a mutant creature..."Total Film "A delicious, often darkly funny combination of monster movie and dysfunctional family drama..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he digital effects and direction are both stunning..."Ultimate DVD29.28984
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"[A] surprisingly stirring drama about family honor and loyalties....THE HOST evolves into that rare horror film that's also inconsolably poignant."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]art of what makes it so enjoyable is how much stuff it contains while never losing sight of its prime directive, which is to thrill and terrify."Premiere "This wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "There is an appealingly absurdist quality to the film but also a dark undertone that taps into deeply held fears of monsters..."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[The film defines] horror for the new millennium. This you have to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] darkly comic, bittersweet, tragic monster movie about a family's attempts to rescue a little girl from a mutant creature..."Total Film "A delicious, often darkly funny combination of monster movie and dysfunctional family drama..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he digital effects and direction are both stunning..."Ultimate DVD29.28984
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3 stars out of 5 -- "The most expensive Korean movie ever made....lashed together with streaks of loopy black humour."Total Film "[The director] transplants Sergio Leone's enduring epic to '30s Manchuria, recasting Clint's Blondie as a laconic, rifle-toting bounty hunter..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Kim adds in some clever allusions to varied films like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, APOCALYPSE NOW, and GIANT. Kim's cinematic vigor never flags..."Box Office "THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD's real strength is in the way it establishes what it's going to be about right from the start....Kim's inventive action sequences develop like short films, with their own plots and props..."A.V. Club "Action set pieces move from train shootout to marketplace shootout to horseback-jeep-motorcycle shootout before the inevitable three-way showdown..."Los Angeles Times19.30937
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3 stars out of 5 -- "The most expensive Korean movie ever made....lashed together with streaks of loopy black humour."Total Film "[The director] transplants Sergio Leone's enduring epic to '30s Manchuria, recasting Clint's Blondie as a laconic, rifle-toting bounty hunter..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Kim adds in some clever allusions to varied films like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, APOCALYPSE NOW, and GIANT. Kim's cinematic vigor never flags..."Box Office "THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD's real strength is in the way it establishes what it's going to be about right from the start....Kim's inventive action sequences develop like short films, with their own plots and props..."A.V. Club "Action set pieces move from train shootout to marketplace shootout to horseback-jeep-motorcycle shootout before the inevitable three-way showdown..."Los Angeles Times19.30937
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3 stars out of 5 -- "The most expensive Korean movie ever made....lashed together with streaks of loopy black humour."Total Film "[The director] transplants Sergio Leone's enduring epic to '30s Manchuria, recasting Clint's Blondie as a laconic, rifle-toting bounty hunter..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Kim adds in some clever allusions to varied films like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, APOCALYPSE NOW, and GIANT. Kim's cinematic vigor never flags..."Box Office "THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD's real strength is in the way it establishes what it's going to be about right from the start....Kim's inventive action sequences develop like short films, with their own plots and props..."A.V. Club "Action set pieces move from train shootout to marketplace shootout to horseback-jeep-motorcycle shootout before the inevitable three-way showdown..."Los Angeles Times19.30937
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3 stars out of 5 -- "The most expensive Korean movie ever made....lashed together with streaks of loopy black humour."Total Film "[The director] transplants Sergio Leone's enduring epic to '30s Manchuria, recasting Clint's Blondie as a laconic, rifle-toting bounty hunter..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Kim adds in some clever allusions to varied films like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, APOCALYPSE NOW, and GIANT. Kim's cinematic vigor never flags..."Box Office "THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD's real strength is in the way it establishes what it's going to be about right from the start....Kim's inventive action sequences develop like short films, with their own plots and props..."A.V. Club "Action set pieces move from train shootout to marketplace shootout to horseback-jeep-motorcycle shootout before the inevitable three-way showdown..."Los Angeles Times19.30937
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"[T]he film is tightly knitted with echoing motifs....[Kim Ok-vin's] eyes express everything between yes and no, and she is demonically able to shift through a whole lexicon of contradictory emotions in one blink."Film Comment 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here is no denying that THIRST casts a hypnotic visual spell over its vampiric goings-on."Box Office "[A] rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft, ravishing undead, biting passion and a healthy splash of irony as well as iron in all that spilled blood..."Los Angeles Times "Fans of vampire movies are not likely to see anything more graphic, extreme or twisted than THIRST."USA Today "It is a bloodstained horror movie, a dark comedy, a noirish psychodrama of crime and punishment, a melodrama of mad love, a freehanded literary adaptation and, of course, a vampire movie."New York Times "[A] gaudy, daring, operatic, and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook....THIRST is gorgeous, every shot a keeper, even as blood flows in rivers and hell beckons." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "[I]ts turgid pace creates a queasy fascination all its own, drawing viewers into an ever-darkening locus of sin and obsession..." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "Movies exist to cloak our desires in disguises we can accept, and there is an undeniable appeal to THIRST."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] ripe stew of horror, erotica and tragedy. It's scandalously self-indulgent, but there's no denying its invention and visual power."Uncut19.30937
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"SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office "SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office13.68376
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"[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office13.68376
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"[F]rom start to finish, Lee crafts scenes that show how people lie to themselves, in ways both subtle and deeply disturbing....SECRET SUNSHINE is a frequently beautiful film..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "SECRET SUNSHINE has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings....Mr. Lee, a distinguished novelist before he turned to filmmaking, composes the cinematic equivalent of prose that is clear, elegant and lyrical."New York Times "Jeon received the Best Actress at Cannes for her wrenching performance....Jeon gives an emotional depth to Shin-ae's psychological trauma."Box Office13.68376
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Rolling Stone (1/4/01, p.116) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000".Rolling Stone (3/30/00, p.62) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...Smith is simply inspired....she's back to life, taking on the whole world. She belts manifestoes, plunges headlong into love, offers benedictions and hurls herself into history and myth....all done with a revitalized band..."Entertainment Weekly (12/29/00, p.138) - Ranked #5 in EW's Top 10 Albums of 2000.Entertainment Weekly (3/31/00, pp.67-8) - "...a collection of hypnotic, human rock & roll that extols such seemingly antiquated virtues as moral fiber, history, and love as spirituality..." - Rating: AMagnet (6-7/00, p.91) - "...Contains all the hallmarks that make the Patti Smith Group formidable flag-bearers....GUNG HO is pure PSG....heir to the group's initial '79 swan song WAVE..."The Wire (4/00, p.52) - "...The trademark Smith sound...has always been thrilling and it's no less here....[Her] strong point has always been her delivery...and it's easy to be seduced by her voice alone....unfailingly demonstrates that you're in the presence of something extraordinary..."CMJ (3/20/00, p.3) - "...Smith rocks with a conviction as powerful as anything since her '88 comeback album, DREAM OF LIFE....the tracks gather strength from unity and rememberance..."Mojo (Publisher) (5/00, p.105) - "...Once Patti hits her stride that yearning, passionate vibrato and lyric flashbacks...suggest there's life in the original Righteous Babe yet."NME (Magazine) (3/18/00, p.34) - 6 out of 10 - "...[She] fixes her wild eyes on more overtly political themes....there's music here that's full of the febrile commitment and unashamed passion that marked her as a valid icon in 1975..."17.905
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Vibe (12/97-1/98, p.179) - "...a collection of reinterpretations guaranteed to lift your spirits....each track on the album is danceable enough to spice up everything from your office holiday party to an all-night Santa Watch at the Catch-One disco..."11.02968
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Rolling Stone (p.94) - "Kang's score and the choir's blackened beauty have the weight and menace of Norwegian death metal and British goth without the posing."Spin (p.102) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ruly out there....Inspired by Renaissance-era texts, he utilizes the voices of Mike Patton and Jessika Kenney to render his chillingly phantasmal choral arrangements."9.776289
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[Chyau's] deadpan expressions and youthful pithiness is as earnest as his character's name."Box Office "[A] sweet 'n' sour comedy....Endearing..."Entertainment Weekly9.775576
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Rolling Stone (12/10/99, p.129) - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5) - "...Silly, yes, but also good, discombobulating fun - like a Firesign Theater album without any actual verbal content..."Spin (12/98, pp.185-186) - 8 (out of 10) - "...TALLY HO! constitutes one of 1998's nmost potent arguments contra the tired notion that electronic music is intrinsically cold and emotionless. At his sentimental and melodic best, Luke Vibert is simply one of the top songwriters around, it's just that he's serenading us with beats and samples rather than vocal chords and chord strum."8.962709
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CMJ (p.30) - "While remaining gentle and peculiar throughout, CO ORDINATES' drones, pulses, ragas, microtones and modes are diverse and unpredictable, making a maximalist record with minimalist techniques."7.744335
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