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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Inkoo Kang
    The Water Diviner
    Crowe’s beauty-seeking, but exoticizing camera is slightly outmatched by his performance, which anchors the film with regret tinged with hope. But what continues to haunt after the credits finish rolling are the film’s explorations of the trauma of life after war: The brutally quick political shifts, the lingering shame of committing vicious and dishonorable acts, and the bitter knowledge that there’s no such thing as lasting peace.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    John Doe: Vigilante
    The fatal flaw of "John Doe" is its focus on ideas, rather than people.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    Ex Machina
    A chilly, yet engrossing drama, elevated beyond its four-people-locked-in-a-house framework by the eerie beauty of the production design and the thoughtful curiosity of Garland’s screenplay.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Inkoo Kang
    Lost River
    Lost River is little more than Detroit-based ruin porn, an aesthetic exploitation of poverty and hardship punctuated by splashes of neon and blood.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Inkoo Kang
    Monkey Kingdom
    The film boasts all the cinematic strengths we’ve come to expect from the animal-focused nonfic label... But director Mark Linfield’s film is also distinguished by its fascinating focus on the rigid but not immutable social hierarchy of the macaque world, as well as a smartly structured story of repression, rebellion, and triumph.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    The Sisterhood of Night
    The Sisterhood of Night is too messy to qualify as a great film, especially when it begins introducing, in passing, peripheral characters who survived rape and incest, but it certainly isn’t muddled.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Effie Gray
    Laxton’s measured pace appropriately parallels the slow stifling that Effie undergoes, but he extends his muted approach too far, depriving the film of the emotional crescendo it badly needs.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 35 Inkoo Kang
    Ned Rifle
    The mystery is solidly structured, but the answers it gradually yields are silly at best and lazy and offensive at worst.
    • 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    Get Hard
    Ferrell and Hart don’t bring anything that we haven’t seen from them before, but they create a bouncy, playfully defiant rapport. It’s promising enough that you wish they could have made a movie in which they’re just making us laugh, instead of leaving us wondering how every third scene could be made less offensive.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Inkoo Kang
    A Wolf at the Door
    As with so much of Brazilian cinema, the framing of the plot as a social allegory instead of a psychological portrait doesn't yield the most emotionally satisfying experience. But Wolf serves as an important feminist correction -- and a compelling reminder that predators can come from anywhere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Inkoo Kang
    It Follows
    It’s an undeniable triumph of mood — perfect for anyone who wants to practice clenching their fists for nearly 100 straight minutes — as well as an ambitious effort at reinventing horror by eschewing the genre’s common tricks.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Inkoo Kang
    The Riot Club
    Director Lone Scherfig’s stagings of these suspenseful set pieces are masterful, but the rest of the thriller is a fairly predictable manifesto against Britain’s de facto oligarchy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Inkoo Kang
    52 Tuesdays
    Grippingly plotted and exquisitely thoughtful, 52 Tuesdays is a poignant reminder that neither confusion nor crisis is doomed to be calamitous.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    Seymour: An Introduction
    Hawke is probably too respectful a director and disciple to challenge anything that his subject says, or even query about the vaguest outlines of his personal life.... The title is truth in advertising; “Seymour” really is only an introduction.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    The Lovers
    Bring a notebook and some tissues — the mission to protect the queen becomes a tangle of shifting alliances between local and British forces that might require visual aids, while the snail-slow realization of gloomy prophecies may well tear you up in boredom.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Inkoo Kang
    Home Sweet Hell
    A rancid comedy fueled by male entitlement and uxoricidal rage.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Inkoo Kang
    The Hunting Ground
    A timely, thorough and truly inspiring documentary about the financial and marketing imperatives that lead academic institutions to deny their students safety and justice.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Inkoo Kang
    Drunktown's Finest
    Drunktown’s Finest shouldn’t be viewed simply as an anthropological curiosity, though, but as the promising debut of a gifted filmmaker who wants to show the beating and hurting hearts of the people behind the headlines.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Inkoo Kang
    The DUFF
    There’s no doubt that The DUFF is clever, funny and quotable enough to become this decade’s “Mean Girls.” Watch your back, Regina George — there’s a new queen bee in town.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Ana Maria in Novela Land
    This switching-places comedy warmly and trenchantly sends up the telenovela genre’s swooning melodrama and oversexed-but-prudish contradictions.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    The Last Five Years
    Without that emotional groundwork to establish the contours of Cathy and Jamie’s relationship, “The Last Five Years” is largely a numbing experience.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 65 Inkoo Kang
    Fifty Shades of Grey
    Starring a vivacious Dakota Johnson and a game Jamie Dornan, Taylor-Johnson’s erotic romance is a skillful distillation of James’ first book that captures the heady exhilaration of being someone’s fixation.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    Love, Rosie
    A misguided attempt to spin a nightmare scenario into a cutesy rom-com premise, this British production takes place in a harrowingly claustrophobic world where personal growth ends at age 18, and you meet everyone you’ll ever become friends with in your whole life during high school.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Girlhood
    Save for a few standout scenes of carefree elation and daring camaraderie, Girlhood is largely a grim and stilted study of oppression.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Cake
    A thoughtful and frequently moving drama that insightfully illuminates what it’s like to live with illness and agony at least as well as last year’s other Best Actress vehicles like “Wild,” “Still Alice,” and “Two Days, One Night” do.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Inkoo Kang
    Red Army
    Red Army is a thoughtful and cheer-worthy examination of how sports can shape cultures, redraw borders and change history.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Inkoo Kang
    Salvation Army
    Despite stilted camerawork often locked in the medium shot, Salvation Army is a touching ode to the freedom to finally be who we want to be — if we can ever find where we belong.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Inkoo Kang
    The Boy Next Door
    Neither good nor bad, nor campy nor scary enough to be in any way memorable, The Boy Next Door is a lot like our own neighbors, just there. You could make the effort to sneak a peek, but it probably wouldn’t be worth your while.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Inkoo Kang
    Appropriate Behavior
    Unabashedly truthful and restlessly intelligent, Akhavan’s remarkable, near-perfect debut has wit and charisma to spare. Miss it at your own risk.
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