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TV tonight: loads of fun with the supercharged Gladiators reboot

Viewers, ready? It’s the return of the brilliant 90s challenge show. Plus: Big Zuu’s fantastic foodie tour continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Killers of the Flower Moon to The Kitchen: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Martin Scorsese’s 206-minute epic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, and a striking sci-fi that’s part Blade Runner, part District 9 and brims with rage

The Guardian - UK

Ranked: 12 best Asian films of 2022, with trailers

Tom Cruise and James Cameron may be vying for global box office dominance this year, but there has been no shortage of films emerging from Asia to delight, inspire and provoke audiences around the world.

Bangkok Post

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Oscars 2023: Actor power rankings

Awards season greetings! What you have here is the Gold Standard's first batch of acting power rankings where, yes, this week, it's a man's man's man's world. (We'll get to the women next week.) These are the performances that people are talking about, counting down toward the ones that are…

Los Angeles Times

Why Park Chan-wook crafted 'Decision to Leave' so love is more mysterious than murder

A detective falls for a beautiful murder suspect. But that's just the beginning of the experience of "Decision to Leave." In the hands of South Korean master Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy," "The Handmaiden"), that familiar noir premise is just the outermost layer of a cinematic onion — a sweet one nevertheless…

Los Angeles Times

Decision to Leave: Here are the other South Korean films you absolutely shouldn’t miss

From The Host to The Handmaiden, here’s our top picks

Evening Standard

"Decision to Leave" seduces & mesmerizes

The "Oldboy" and "Handmaiden" director delivers a romantic thriller that took Cannes by storm

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Review: Park Chan-wook's thrilling mystery 'Decision to Leave' is noir at its most nourishing

At first glance — and it rewards several glances — "Decision to Leave" seems to tell the story of a police detective and the beautiful woman who upends his dull, well-ordered existence. It's a tale of impossible longing, the kind that can undo a marriage, ruin a career and send…

Los Angeles Times

Q&A: Park Chan-wook on love, genre and 'Decision to Leave'

Long before Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and devilishly elaborate vision of Korean cinema

The Independent UK

What to stream: With arrival of 'Decision to Leave,' revisit the best from Korean director Park Chan-wook

South Korean master auteur Park Chan-wook has a new film, “Decision to Leave,” hitting theaters this Friday, the first film in his career selected as the South Korean submission for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Park has gained a cult following across the globe for his…

Tribune News Service

15 must-see films from the Toronto International Film Festival

It was like a muscle memory, quick to come back. That feeling of hustling from theater to theater, waiting in lines and just being surrounded by other people that used to be an annual tradition as part of the Toronto International Film Festival but for many longtime attendees has been…

Los Angeles Times

From Wakanda Forever to Don’t Worry Darling: the best films to see in autumn 2022

The Avatar sequel arrives, Michael Flatley’s secret agent struts in, Marvel returns to Black Panther territory – and Harry Styles teams up with Florence Pugh in a horror-thriller

The Guardian - UK

South Korean auteur behind 'Oldboy' returns with 'pure' love story

Seoul (AFP) - Filmmaker Park Chan-wook, known for his ultra-violent thrillers that helped catapult South Korean cinema onto the global stage, is back with an altogether different work -- a restrained yet deeply emotional love story.

AFP

S.Korea Has Big Cannes Night with Actor, Director Awards

The South Korean cinema industry added to a global winning streak on Saturday by scooping two key prizes at the Cannes Film Festival for a pair of beloved veterans. Star film-maker Park Chan-wook clinched the best director award for his erotic crime movie "Decision To Leave" while Song Kang-ho, best…

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The Guardian - AU

Cannes 2022: South Korea scoops record awards haul

Parasite star Song Kang-ho becomes first South Korean male to win an acting prize, while director Park Chan-wook wins for Decision to Leave

Asharq Al-Awsat

Korea’s Park Chan-Wook Leaves Violence behind in New Film

Celebrated South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, best known for his brutal Vengeance Trilogy, is covering new ground with his latest Cannes competition entry, "Decision to Leave." The romantic thriller about a detective and murder suspect who become infatuated with one another features, contrary to the expectation of some, little violence…

The Guardian - UK

Decision to Leave review – Tang Wei stuns in Park Chan-wook black-widow noir

Park’s tale of a married detective torn between infidelity and moral duty keeps the viewer off-balance at every turn

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