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Minari

2020

Lee Isaac Chung

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

6.7

9,553

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.

	Media	Author	Review
		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"
		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"
		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."
		Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"A loving, delicately crafted portrait (...) a special experience that should resonate with audiences"
		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."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Chung transforms the specificity of his upbringing into something warm, tender and universal."
		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"
		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"

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