Review of Shoplifters (2018) by Richard Whittaker for Austin Chronicle — 03 Jan 2019
Yet in many ways Shoplifters is an unlikely yet organic extension of his last film, 2017's crime drama "The Third Murder." Less a whodunit than a whydidyoudoit, that legal procedural was really a subtle assault on Japan's judicial system, in which it's more important that a case makes sense than it reaches the truth.
Shoplifters cuts close to the same marrow as "The Third Murder," but with how Japan views families as his subject.
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This review of Shoplifters (2018) was written by Richard Whittaker and published by Austin Chronicle on 03 Jan 2019.
Shoplifters has generally received very positive reviews.
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