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By Richie27 M (12) on 24 Jan 2018

A story who never hear about one of the toughest times in this nation. Amazing indie film…

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By Keno G (1) on 20 Dec 2017

Gook doesn't tell its story in the way most movies do…

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By Riff J (755) on 20 Dec 2017

Gook doesn't tell its story in the way most movies do…

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By Tony B (947) on 29 Nov 2017

Great movie, extremely well acted and has a great score…

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By Daniel H (1,174) on 29 Nov 2017

Great movie, extremely well acted and has a great score…

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By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 20 Nov 2017

Stark and incisive, with many moments of levity, Gook offers a rare look at impoverished Americans trying to get on with their lives in impossible…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 01 Oct 2017

The racial discussions happening throughout are far from simplistic or rudimentary, this fearless multidimensionality giving Chon's script…

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By Abigail S (96) on 01 Oct 2017

It gave me goosebumps. Speechless.. basically all I can say…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for ABC Tucson (117) on 27 Sep 2017

Works best in its slow, steady moments, which allow its characters to breathe and help the film's sense of time and place flower to life…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Sep 2017

The provocatively titled indie film Gook is both incendiary and lyrical…

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By Melanie J (115) on 22 Sep 2017

Saw it, it was brilliant! James you outdid yourself…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 20 Sep 2017

Justin Chon's Gook, an admittedly uneven film with a lot on its mind, acts as an ever-present undercurrent to a particular form of racial strife…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Sep 2017

The cacophonous result comes a lot closer to recapturing the spirit of Crash than to recapturing the spirit of 1990s independent cinema…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Sep 2017

Like Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit, set half a century ago, Chon's Gook uses the past to speak to a tumultuous present…

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By Ashley Bulayo (1) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 11 Sep 2017

it's as if Gook came out at the exact time we needed it…

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By Ly G (53) on 09 Sep 2017

August 18, 2017 At first glance, Gook seems like it's striving to be the latest poster child for independent cinema: it has been shot in black…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 07 Sep 2017

Although it's rough around the edges, the expected low-budget trappings work mostly to the benefit of this gritty and evocative drama…

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By Katie A (115) on 01 Sep 2017

I thought this was a very powerful movie, although not an easy movie to watch…

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By Herbert F (5) on 27 Aug 2017

A must see film. I just saw it tonight, and was very surprised, and elated to see the LA riots told from this perspective…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 24 Aug 2017

Poignant, powerful black-and-white drama set amid '92 riots…

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