What Does That Nature Say to You

What Does That Nature Say to You

The season’s best romantic comedy has finally landed stateside, although it’s been making the rounds on the festival circuit for a year now. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait: Hong Sang-soo’s 33rd feature and his funniest ensemble of the decade so far, What Does That Nature Say to You, takes some of the genre’s most familiar tropes and gives them the sort of spin only Hong could pull off. (Who else could make a straightforward narrative feel so fresh without any of the typical experimentation or structural mold-breaking?) We find ourselves in the car with Donghwa (Ha Seong-guk) and his girlfriend, Jun-hee (Kang So-yi), parked outside her parents’ house following a drive in from Seoul. After watching Jun-hee’s mom (Cho Yun-hee) drive off, Donghwa is tempted to take a look at the place – a beautiful mountainside home custom-designed

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Roughly 28 weeks after one of the most bizarre cliffhangers in summer-blockbuster history, a follow-up has finally arrived, albeit through a different lens. Vacating the

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One Battle After Anotehr

One Battle After Another

[Note: This review contains spoilers for Vineland and One Battle After Another.] At the conclusion of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, the characters are celebrating the

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The Running Man

The Running Man

Stephen King’s 1982 novel The Running Man is one of the author’s more uncharacteristic works. This dystopian science-fiction tale – set, as it happens, in

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Bugonia

Teddy (Jesse Plemons) has a plan. He has done his research. He has procured all the necessary supplies, including padlocks, steel cables, and bulk quantities

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

From a distance, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey resembles any other Hollywood romance, one featuring bankable, charming stars and a light enough tone to appeal

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Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest

Back in 2008, DreamWorks and Universal were intent on remaking a South Korean thriller that is widely regarded as one of the best films ever

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Him

Him

Cameron Cade (Austin Pulliam) was raised to revere the American Holy Trinity: God, family, and football. In young Cam’s personal theology, the only figure that

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