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Minari

2020

Lee Isaac Chung

Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S. Kim ...

6.7

9,524

Drama David, a 7-year-old Korean-American boy, gets his life turned upside down when his father decides to move their family to rural Arkansas and start a farm in the mid-1980s, in this charming and unexpected take on the American Dream.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A gentle, sweet, and yet staggeringly powerful story (...) [It] interrogates the American Dream with the hard-edged hope of a family that needs to believe in something before they lose all faith in each other"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The charming low-key humor and the actors are all winning without being coy or cutesy. A modest film but very human and accessible"	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"Chung has hit a peak as a filmmaker that might have been unthinkable just a few years ago. As the family in 'Minari' also learns, experience and perspective are often the greatest gifts of all."	POS
United Kingdom	Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"A loving, delicately crafted portrait (...) a special experience that should resonate with audiences"	POS
United States	David Canfield Entertainment Weekly	"[It] works quietly and methodically, embracing its lush rural setting with striking glimpses of its characters, alone against vast and empty landscapes."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Chung transforms the specificity of his upbringing into something warm, tender and universal."	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"It is a classic immigrant story with specific, often unique new details (...) There is a ring of truth to every moment and conversation"	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"The best movie you'll find anywhere about what it means to be a family (...) A cast that could not be better (...) Out of the deceptive simplicity of 'Minari', which honestly earns every laugh and tear it delivers, emerges a thing of beauty"	POS

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