Inkoo Kang

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For 395 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Inkoo Kang's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Shoplifters
Lowest review score: 10 Ghost Team One
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 166 out of 395
  2. Mixed: 144 out of 395
  3. Negative: 85 out of 395
395 movie reviews
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    The Boy
    Nearly free of gore, the film taps into the deep and always welcome vein of the opulently bizarre things that rich, emotionally stunted people get into when they’ve got too much money. Stacey Menear’s script is careful and clever about revealing what Brahms really is, for he’s certainly got a mind and will of his own.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Inkoo Kang
    American Jesus
    Garriga aims for depth in the third act, contextualizing religious conservatism as a reaction against the social revolutions of the 1960s. But the reduction of Christianity into just another political group feels like a dilution, a conversion of wine into water.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    When the Game Stands Tall
    "When the Game” is like a bad seven-layer salad: it's tempting in theory, but it's really just a jumble of random ingredients that wind up supremely unappetizing in the aggregate.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Inkoo Kang
    Raze
    Raze is a sweaty, queasy, bruising experience — and a superbly crafted film.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    The Quiet Ones
    Despite its outstanding performances, The Quiet Ones remains the very thing its protagonist scoffs at: a pointless story about “evil begetting evil for the sake of evil.” Evil can be defeated, but emptiness always prevails.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Inkoo Kang
    Better Living Through Chemistry
    Never feels as triumphant or as affecting as it should, but the script boasts some amusing meanness of spirit.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Deliver Us From Evil
    For all its embarrassment of riches, “Deliver” never manages to transcend its bloody, screechy, pulpy origins. That makes the film both a horror tale and a tragedy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    Make Your Move
    Its core dance styles are a wonderfully frenetic fusion of tap and hip-hop and a truly novel blend of Japanese taiko drumming and K-pop girl-group choreography. Whenever actor Derek Hough and BoA stop leaping and twirling, though, Make Your Move is an underwritten mess.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    Brick Mansions
    The parkour is breathtaking and the plot twists are off-the-charts ridiculous.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    Aftermath
    The apocalypse is no fun for anyone, but the dreariest possible scenario probably entails being stuck in a house without a functioning toilet and with nine of the dullest people left alive.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    The Nutcracker’s onslaught of wholesomeness also lays waste to anything that might stand in its way, leaving it crushed under the boot heels of its tin soldiers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    The Maid's Room
    There's just enough compelling reversals and anything-could-happen suspense to make this increasingly claustrophobic work effective.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 35 Inkoo Kang
    The Green Inferno
    At best, The Green Inferno is a reliable shock and disgust-delivery system. At worst — and it certainly veers toward the worst — it’s a racially reprehensible work that exploits one of the world’s most powerless peoples. And no number of movie-geek references to “Cannibal Holocaust” is going to change that.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    Men in Black: International
    Overstuffed and far from spry.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    A Case of You
    A Case of You is a disappointing romantic comedy that aspires to social relevance until the third act, when it settles for pat Freudian revelations.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    2 Jacks
    False gravity weighs down 2 Jacks, a father-son drama less interested in exploring familial relations than in tut-tutting the millennials.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    And So It Goes
    Douglas and Keaton conjure just enough empathy and optimism and cozy charm between them to make us believe that anything can happen at twilight.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Inkoo Kang
    Sweet Talk
    The mustiness of many of the script's ideas hardly detracts from what feels like a radical premise, at least in film — that a woman can get off with a stranger and leave it at that. Erica Jong would be proud.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 45 Inkoo Kang
    Love
    Love feels deeply, but not complexly. Both Murphy and Noé’s sustained sex scenes understand want and need, but there’s little to invest in emotionally.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Annabelle
    The late-60's Satanic panic and housewifely ennui make for a surprisingly complementary mix of fear and paranoia in Annabelle.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    Jessabelle
    Unfortunately, it's just when Jessabelle looks like it might transcend its haunted-house trappings that the Southern Gothic clichés rear their tortured, screaming heads.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    Caught in the Web
    Chen's grand opus about the perils of the Internet already feels obsolete.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    Last Love
    This somber work about the worthiness of living has little life in it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    Goodbye World
    An unconvincing, poorly conceived hybrid of end-of-the-world thriller and relationship drama.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    Sex Tape
    Sex Tape is a hustler of a film — it works very hard for its laughs — but it's so haphazardly directed (by Jake Kasdan) and written (by Kate Angelo and Segel and Nicholas Stoller) that it can easily be divided into three distinct sections.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Inkoo Kang
    The Hot Flashes
    The raunchy, feminist-revenge jokes are the best part of this feel-good, you-go-ladies sports comedy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    Serena
    Densely packed and gorgeously expressionist, the old-fashioned tragedy is very nearly a satisfying experience despite its various shortcomings.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Inkoo Kang
    Velvet Buzzsaw
    The sum amounts to far less than its parts, but oh, what parts!
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Inkoo Kang
    Dumb and Dumber To
    The visuals remain homely and brutally efficient, the plot convoluted but the pacing brisk, and the humor often inventive and resourceful — and just as often tired or offensive (to women, people of color, gays and lesbians, old people, take your pick).
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Inkoo Kang
    The Kitchen
    I felt resentful of my own feelings of gratitude while watching The Kitchen, a joyless and exhausting movie that squanders the talents of a dream trio: McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss.
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