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‘Hope’ Review: It’s Aliens Vs. South Korean Villagers In Na Hong-Jin’s Wild Non-Stop Action-Driven Genre Movie – Cannes Film Festival

17 May 2026 at 22:39
Much has been written about this year’s Cannes Film Festival being ignored by studios and crowd-pleasing blockbuster type movies, in favor of the more familiar auteur driven quieter films. Well, fasten your seat belts. Cannes just unveiled Hope, a sci fi Alien monster mash from South Korean director Na Hong-Jin that never lets up for […]

‘Hope’ Review: Na Hong-jin’s Overlong Creature Feature is a Guns-Blazing Riot of Bawdy Humor, Bad CGI and Brilliant Action

17 May 2026 at 22:10
For a decade, since 2016’s extraordinarily uncanny horror-hybrid “The Wailing,” fans of Korean director Na Hong-jin have been peering anxiously at the horizon awaiting his next uncategorizable genre mash-up. More recently, like a bumbling local police chief removing his mirrored aviators to squint at an unidentifiable what-the-hell-is-that wreaking havoc in the distance, we’ve tracked reports […]

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