Introduction feels like a mediation on how time chips away at first impressions: What started as something beautiful and simple can become complicated, unattainable, and hard to hold on to.

| Feb 3, 2022

There's very little substance, with only a meager bit of exposition providing any kind of throughline, yet the film confounds in its modest ambitions.

| Jan 28, 2022

Another of the writer-director's sharp, elegant miniatures.

| Jan 28, 2022

It's a taste worth acquiring.

| Jan 20, 2022

The battle of the generations is fought passive-aggressively in this spare, wry, yet bitter drama by Hong Sangsoo.

| Jan 18, 2022

Slight and discursive even by the filmmaker's idiosyncratic standards, "Introduction" refuses to auto-correct for anyone who doesn't already speak conversational Hong.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 6, 2021

The director knows exactly how to reel us in, and to make us stay invested in a story which seems to flow with such fluidity that you never know where you are going to end.

| Mar 2, 2021

Even if Introduction feels like just that, an appetizer, it still offers up more to chew on than some full meals.

| Mar 2, 2021

It's not clear with which position Hong's own opinion of acting aligns, but the director keeps creating consistently fascinating explorations of the tensions that this disagreement evokes.

| Mar 2, 2021

There is an unmistakable and mature film-making language on display: a simplicity and charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2021

As bracing as a brief dip in a freezing sea after a rather too soju-soaked luncheon.

| Mar 2, 2021