As Bong Joon-ho accepted the Academy Award for last year’s best picture winner “Parasite,” the South Korean writer/director begged audiences to give films with foreign-language subtitles a chance.
It’s ridiculous that “Minari” isn’t up for Best Picture this Sunday at the Golden Globes, instead relegated to the Best Foreign Language Film category despite being largely in English, set in America, ...
“Minari” does that miraculous thing that good movies can do: drop you right out of your head and down into your heart. While it’s true that you can’t always trust the critics, this time, you safely ...
Minari (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Lee Isaac Chung, and starring Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Yuh-Jung Youn, Will Patton, Darryl Cox, Esther Moon, Ben Hall, Eric Starkey, ...
It took four movies before Lee Isaac Chung was ready to tell the kind of story first-timers so often rush to share straight out of the gate. Not a coming-of-age movie so much as a deeply personal and ...
Inspired by writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood as the son of South Korean immigrants in rural Arkansas, “Minari” is a gentle story of a family’s unexpectedly rich harvest. At its center is an ...
Minari, a plant commonly used in Korean dishes, is known for its relentless growth and capacity for rebirth. Along the same stem comes a titular film about growth from the soil up and the renewal of ...
Over the last couple of national election cycles, a topic of much discussion and often heated debate has been immigration. In light of the impassionate rhetoric, many have neglected the human, ...