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Evening Standard
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Hamish MacBain

Monster review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s subtle, smart and beautiful work is up there with Shoplifters

Remember Shoplifters? What a wonderfully warm-but-sad, clever movie Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme D’Or-winning, Oscar nominated 2018 film was.

His last, Broker from 2022, was equally superb, but somehow felt overlooked on this side of the globe: the western world apparently only having capacity for a finite number of Asian films per year – ie one or two – to receive wider attention.

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