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September 11, 2026

At The Movies: The Korean thriller ‘Hope' is a creature feature to the tilt

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

Na Hong-jin makes chase movies and it can be incredible where they go. His latest, “Hope,” is his biggest and wildest movie yet. But despite its heft in scale and run time, it rarely pauses to take a breath.

Though some of Na's contemporaries are better known in the West, the South Korean writer-director has for two decades been a must-see filmmaker for breathless spectacles laced with pointed satire and scruffy humanity. His appropriately titled 2008 debut, “The Chaser,” focused on a pimp and former police officer trying to find a missing sex worker in a helter-skelter search through nocturnal Seoul.


 
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