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Parasite tells the story — alternately comedic and dramatic — of a poor family infiltrating the lives and home of a rich family in present-day Korea.
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
In the video, Jean Carlo Leon, a TikTok star and influencer, struts between a series of red rooms dressed alternately in a suit, a snug tank top, chunky leather boot, printed short-sleeve shirt and tailored shorts.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025
So, this alternately cocky and petulant child of privilege insists on a pugilistic path to show up Daddy?
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
Culkin has swept just about all of the awards-season precursors, and his lovely performance as an alternately charming, infuriating, manic, troubled American tourist in Jesse Eisenberg’s very good A Real Pain deserves the acclaim.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
In the video, Jean Carlo Leon, a TikTok star and influencer, struts between a series of red rooms dressed alternately in a suit, a snug tank top, chunky leather boot, printed short-sleeve shirt and tailored shorts.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025
So, this alternately cocky and petulant child of privilege insists on a pugilistic path to show up Daddy?
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
Culkin has swept just about all of the awards-season precursors, and his lovely performance as an alternately charming, infuriating, manic, troubled American tourist in Jesse Eisenberg’s very good A Real Pain deserves the acclaim.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
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