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  • NEW WORLD Receives Favorable Reactions from Foreign Press
  • by KIM Hyun-min  /  Mar 29, 2013
  •  “Both Less Bloody and More Thoughtful than Most of Its Genre”
     


    PARK Hoon-jung's New World, the first film for grown-ups to attract over 4 million viewers in 2013, has been receiving a mass of favorable comments from the press since its release in North America on March 22nd. IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes posted psotive comments from renowned press companies as follows:
     
    New World is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses.” New York Times (Jeannette Catsoulis), “Writer-director Hoon-jung PARK tells this twisty story of internecine warfare within a Korean corporate crime syndicate with patience, elegance and no small amount of bloodshed.” Los Angeles Times (Gary Goldstein), “All that said, no one in American movies has made a crime opera this good in years.” Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir) and more. The flood of praises proved the potential of New World in the United States.
     
     
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