The best moment in every movie about organized crime comes when the aspiring gangster becomes an actual one. In Goodfellas, it’s when Henry returns from his first arrest and is rewarded by fellow ...

Polygon is looking ahead to the movies, shows, and books coming soon in our Spring 2024 entertainment preview package, a weeklong special issue. To help with that, here is a list of five South Korean ...

Korean audiences are turning away from formulaic genre films and gravitating instead toward more human-centered stories that ...

South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, also a novelist and screenwriter, directed several films in the 1990s and early 2000s that were highly and deservedly praised. A number of those films, along ...

The gangster movie genre is as old as cinema itself, with silent era masterpieces like Intolerance and early efforts like Scarface setting the template for future crime dramas. With such a rich ...

South Korean director Park Ri-woong’s “The Land of Morning Calm” won the top prize, the Golden Cyclo, at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. The jury, headed by Chinese auteur Jia ...