Grass
Cinema Guild | Release Date: April 19, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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91
The Film StageRory O'Connor
Are the grand and absurd moments of our lives perhaps more closely acquainted with one another then we’d like to admit? Grass seems to think so, and it delivers that assumption with a welcome–indeed, almost humane–dose of humor. Read full review
90
Screen DailySarah Ward
Grass demonstrates a fresh type of playfulness from the prolific filmmaker. It’s a movie filled with his usual intimacy, but it’s also one that’s purposefully more concerned with the bigger picture than the individual details. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaApr 15, 2019
What’s most fascinating about Grass is the way Hong modulates the film’s atmosphere, gradually transforming its banal beginnings into something genuinely haunting and unresolved. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 22, 2019
Grass, true to its title, is small, sharp and bladelike. It may strike you as more of the same until you see it and its implications and possibilities begin to grow and multiply. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 18, 2019
When the writer opts to just let things be, the movie is at its most content. Read full review
75
The PlaylistBradley Warren
For all the artists that populate Hong’s cinematic universe, the director has yet to foreground the creative psyche in as thought-provoking of a manner as he does in Grass. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young
Kim’s Areum is edgy, multi-layered and far from docile. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid Ehrlich
Much less consistently enjoyable than many Hong films twice its length, Grass compensates for its dramatic slackness and deviant sobriety by honing in on the ideas that its director’s work often skirts around. Read full review
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