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- 2020
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 55 m
- 2020
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 55 m
Summary A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the...
Written By: Lee Isaac Chung
- 2020
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 55 m
- 2020
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 55 m
Minari
8.0
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Summary A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the...
Written By: Lee Isaac Chung
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
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98% Positive
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2% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
89
98% Positive
48 Reviews
48 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s at once intimate and expansive – a film with a big heart and not a bad word to say about anyone.
The most efficient review of Minari would be something along the lines of “It’s wonderful. See it. You’ll love it.” But you need to know more than that about Lee Isaac Chung’s partly autobiographical drama.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 212 User Ratings
8.0
87% Positive
184 Ratings
184 Ratings
10% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
3% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 212 User Ratings
8.0
87% Positive
184 Ratings
184 Ratings
10% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
3% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
One of the best movies of the new decade. It's truly amazing along with the brilliant performances of the actors.
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It's that kind of movie who made you feel happier at the end and after of that, and the score was perfect, sometimes I felt high.
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Everybody’s talking about this unassuming, but also unmissable and unforgettable slice of Korean-American life and for good reason: Lee Isaac Chung’s heartfelt tale of his own childhood is the best movie you’ll find anywhere about what it means to be a family.
Chung transforms the specificity of his upbringing into something warm, tender and universal.
What makes this more than just another formulaic feelgood film is the grit with which Chung evokes the hardscrabble lives of his characters, balancing the dreamier elements of the drama with a naturalism that keeps it rooted in reality.
Chung’s nuanced portrait of a family figuring out their place in the world is both small and somehow rather grand.
The narrow and merely illustrative drama is matched, unfortunately, by an impersonal cinematography that fails to suggest texture or intimacy.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Minari revolves around a family trying to live out the "American Dream" after moving from California to Arkansas to start a farm. There are plenty of touching and funny moments throughout and good acting by the cast that helps drive the film despite a couple of flaws that keep it down.
The movie struggles in the second half as it plays out rather predictably while also dealing with an incredibly slow pace that the first half didn't deal with. It brings the movie down quite a bit IMO but it doesn't make it unwatchable. If you're looking for a decent drama to watch then, by all means, give it a shot, but I think it can hit one too many familiar tropes along the way that prevent it from truly being great.
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Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) plays the father of a young Korean immigrant family who moves from California to Arkansas, where he plans to start a farm. Considering this was the 80s, there was surprisingly no racial pushback from this small Southern town. Instead, they deal with growing his crops and family challenges (including the grandmother who arrives from Korea). The cast, along with director Lee Isaac Chung, has created characters that are real and quietly involving. It runs longer than needed and never gets especially involving, but it is a low-key, modest human drama. (Mostly in Korean with subtitles)
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Production Company
Plan B Entertainment
Release Date Dec 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline A timeless story of what roots us.
Website
https://gaga.ne.jp/minari/
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Wins & 12 Nominations