Iron Crows
Film Forum | Release Date: August 26, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyJohn AndersonAug 25, 2011
Virtually an experimental film -- the humanity is rich, but pure image and sensation are what makes it tick. Read full review
80
Time OutKeith UhlichAug 24, 2011
The filmmaking is patient and participatory, getting down in the dirt with the workers (in one case the lens is even soaked by a spray of sludge) and allowing several touchingly distinct personalities to emerge. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 23, 2011
A startlingly beautiful documentary by Bong-Nam Park that is also devastatingly sad. Read full review
75
NPRScott TobiasAug 25, 2011
Iron Crows isn't the miserablist wallow you might expect. While director Park Bong-Nam observes the hazards of ship-breaking with a thoroughness that borders on fetishization, he also catches the humor and camaraderie of men in the trenches. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAug 24, 2011
The movie has no story per se, and there are times when it does seem like Park is hovering, vulture-like, over his subjects' shoulders, waiting for a disaster. But Iron Crows isn't devoid of natural human exuberance, nor is it immune to the awesome spectacle of a dangerous job. Read full review
70
Village VoiceNick PinkertonAug 23, 2011
Park's view - clearly inscribed in his well-structured, practically chapter-headed ("After Hours," "Payday," "Back at the Village") documentary - is that the hideous working conditions and low wages are due to man-made avarice; the workers, though, tend toward a fatalism based in religious predestination. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierAug 22, 2011
A maddeningly blunt and syrupy rendering of a piquant socio-economic configuration, Park Bong-Nam's Iron Crows is ultimately third-world documentary filmmaking at its most exploitatively surface-groping. Read full review
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