On the action front, it's a great example for how directors can experiment in the genre as well. The year 2019 was a pretty good one for action movies, although not all the best examples came from the big screen. War movies are not traditional action movies in the usual sense. It’s rare you have people from West Virginia to Saudi Arabia united in praise about a Korean movie. The film topped Korean box offices upon its release thanks predominantly to female viewers. Neeson is clearly enjoying making these movies and that goes a long way to letting the audience go along for the ride. The top 50 films as voted on by our pool of 304 film critics is listed below. Millions of Korean women found Kim Ji-young‘s portrayal of patriarchy highly relatable. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho imbued the film with a rollicking story about a poor family who scams their way into becoming the household staff of a rich family. This, combined with a timely anti-Japanese tilt, likely endeared the film to Korean theatergoers. Innocent Witness begins with a purported crime. Korean Title: 악인전 (Ak-in-jeon) | Director: Lee Won-tae | Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Kim Mu-yeol, Kim Sung-kyu | Genre: Action, Thriller. It's also been shot in one long take, which makes the grueling action sequences even more astounding. IndieWire published the full critics poll earlier this week, but now we’re giving readers a bigger look at the Best Film category.

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Beyond US$120 million in theatrical takings, Parasite won the Palme d’Or at 2019’s Cannes Film Festival, and has Oscars nominations for Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature. If you missed it, go fix that. Godzilla: King of the Monsters clearly heard that critique, because a lack of action is not a problem here. Starring: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace If you enjoy fictional characters that spend the bulk of the film cracking the code to a mystery, this one's for you.

It was a film released exclusively on Netflix, but even on the smaller screen, it's worth checking out. It's an unrelenting movie and one of the best 2019 has to offer, period. In 2019, South Korea maintained its status as East Asia’s cinematic powerhouse.