Hope

The sheer spectacle whipped up by director Na Hong-jin is remarkable.

The rickety CGI not its strong suit, “Hope” never quite follows through on its crafty first hour of peekaboo velocity.

Hope is the kind of movie that encourages talking around, in part that’s because it’s surprising, strange, and entertaining enough to make spoiler avoidance unusually worthwhile. That’s also not the whole story.

...Hope offers genuine entertainment while subtly weaving in catastrophic commentary on humanity, exaggerations that resonate with these times of intolerance, oppression, and war. [Full review in Spanish]