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Broker

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Broker

2022

Hirokazu Koreeda

Lee Ji-Eun, Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona ...

6.6

3,364

Drama Group of people, brought together by a baby box, set off on a journey that will lead to destinations they never expected.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Nobody makes films about families quite like Hirokazu Kore-eda (...) Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"A warm and unexpectedly nonjudgmental look at the Korean gray market for adoption (...) Kore-eda is surprisingly generous toward his characters"
		Kayti Burt Paste Magazine	"Every baby deserves to be loved and taken care of, but so does every adult. 'Broker' does an impressive job of articulating how these two truths are inextricably intertwined"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"There is a bit of slackness in the storytelling here (...) but it’s still a warm, often funny account of people finding their way through a tricky predicament."
		Ella Kemp IndieWire	"Hirokazu Kore-eda conjures another unconventional, achingly empathetic family drama (...) The master filmmaker is back with another unclassifiable triumph"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"A fine but none-too-memorable drama (...) Mid-level Kore-eda is still more acute than most, even if top-level Kore-eda would be even better"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An unwanted infant stirs powerful, sometimes conflicting feelings for the characters in Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s lovely examination of spiritual and physical abandonment."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The movie is fundamentally silly, with tiringly shallow characterisation and broad streaks of crime-drama intrigue, which only underline the fact that not a single word of it is really believable (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"The hackneyed thieves-with-a-heart-of-gold trope is reinvigorated by the sharpness of the writing and Song's Basset Hound charms (...) Koreeda keeps it the right side of cutesy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kenji Fujishima Slant	"Even when it edges toward sentimentality, Broker is redeemed by Kore-eda’s customarily bracing humanism (...) Kore-eda’s cast also helps immensely in putting across the drama (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Chase Hutchinson Collider	"The latest from writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda proves once more that he is one of the most humanist filmmakers working today"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"'Broker' might have played well as a thriller, but the material is a poor fit for one of Kore-eda's ostensibly kindhearted dramas"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"One of the year's most delightful films (...) Which other writer-director has Kore-Eda's impeccable skill, delicacy and compassion? None that I can think of (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Delia Harrington Den of Geek	"A masterful drama that challenges you to the core (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"There's a lot at work here, even if it's presented with a generous, accessible touch (...) Uniformly fine performances"
		Martin Tsai AV Club	"Kore-eda's positions on social issues are far from neutral. He reveres the resilience of those who have been dealt a bad hand in life, a sentiment that certainly shines through in 'Broker'"
		Ian Freer Empire	"In true Kore-era style, the film morphs into a lovely study of a makeshift family living on the fringes of society (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lindsey Bahr Toronto Star	"A reminder that filmmakers looking to explore society's ills don't need to make something a misery fest to do so effectively and powerfully"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'Broker' is the sweetest movie ever about human trafficking (...) The movie may just win [your heart] over (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Marshall Shaffer Decider	"[It] is human drama done right"

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