Weekly Review Round-up (10/08-10/14, 2011)

A number of reviews covering a wide array of films coming in from the just wrapped-up Busan International Film Festival, although not quite as many as I would have thought. I imagine that given how Asia-centric the festival was this year, not too many English-language publications sent a critic. Also a few reviews from this year's Sitges Film Festival this week.

RECENT RELEASES

Always

(Blog About Everything, October 6, 2011)

Amen

(Busan Haps, October 8, 2011)

(You'll Never Be Hungry Again, October 8, 2011)

A Reason to Live

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 8, 2011)

Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2011)

Black Dove

(Variety, October 13, 2011 - Subscription Required)

Blades of Blood

(Pop Matters, October 6, 2011)

Choked

(Screen Daily, October 12, 2011)

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2011)

Dangerously Excited

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2011)

End of Animal

(Twitch, October 10, 2011)

(Wildgrounds, October 13, 2011)

Hanji

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2011)

I Am a Dad

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 12, 2011)

Metamorpheses

(Hangul Celluloid, October 10, 2011)

My Black Mini Dress

(hancinema.net, October 8, 2011)

Pink

(Screen Daily, October 10, 2011)

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2011)

Poetry

(Twitch, October 12, 2011)

Punch

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 10, 2011)

The Cat

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 9, 2011)

The Day He Arrives

(East Asia, October 3, 2011 - French)

The Unjust

(Twitch, October 7, 2011)

The Yellow Sea

(Eye For Film, October 12, 2011)

(Row Three, October 10, 2011)

(Twitch, October 13, 2011)

White: The Melody of the Curse

(Japan Cinema, October 5, 2011)

PAST FILMS

Black Hair, 1964

(New Korean Cinema, October 8, 2011)

Castaway on the Moon, 2009

(Kim Bong Park, October 13, 2011 0 French)

My Sassy Girl, 2001

(dramabeans, October 11, 2011)

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