Disappointing supplements notwithstanding, this release of the under-seen The Last Stand does well by a film that’s proud to be small.
Kim Jee-woon makes savvy use of Schwarzenegger as both a newly world-weary figure and, more frequently, the ever-reluctant hero.
You might have noticed that Hollywood’s superhero well is running a little dry.
The New York Asian Film Festival has emerged as quite possibly the most sheer fun of all the major New York film festivals.
Another Korean revenge fantasy that negates its moralizing by wallowing in the ghastliness it nominally asserts is unfulfilling and destructive.
A Tale of Two Sisters takes the hostility and mutual mistrust that can keep “blended families” from blending and turns the dial up to 11.
To say that Kim Jee-woon’s film is problematic would be a vast understatement.
Truly an exercise in internal horror, the glossy Tale of Two Sisters could just as easily have been called What Lies Beneath.