The Journals of Musan(무산일기)

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Group scenes, meanwhile, often suffer from a peculiar handheld drift, as if in troubling over which insult to add to which injury, the filmmakers neglected to attend to rudimentary blocking.

Time Out by David Fear

An attempt to detail the plight of North Koreans in their new homeland, The Journals of Musan doesn't soft-pedal the hardship; Park, however, apparently felt obligated to stack the deck against the film's passive protagonist to a ridiculous degree.

The New York Times by Mike Hale

Mr. Park's screenplay, pedestrian direction and stolid performance don't set us up to care.