In Between Days Reviews
November 18, 2011
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
November 17, 2011
Original Score: 5/5
July 31, 2011
Centering on a young immigrant Korean girl in Toronto, this Sundance indie marks the feature debut of a gifted female director.
Full Review
| Original Score: B
July 8, 2009
There's an authenticity about this work that gives it a chilling flavor.
Full Review
| Original Score: B-
December 7, 2007
Full Review
| Original Score: 3.5/5
November 29, 2007
In Between Days is a wise and beautiful study of yearning and repression.
October 4, 2007
This superb debut feature by Korean-American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.
September 7, 2007
This artfully muted film pays off with a desperate act of eloquence.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/4
September 7, 2007
Kim keeps dialogue to a minimum and provides the barest of story arcs, using a handheld camera to probe subtle shifts of emotion in her nonprofessional actors.
August 3, 2007
A touching and personal story that captures the swirling emotions of adolescence and the immigrant experience - and the heartbreak of being in the middle of both.
Original Score: 3.5/4
August 2, 2007
[It] feels honest and direct, which is more than you can say about a lot of movies these days.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/4
August 2, 2007
Too minimalist for its own good when it comes to story details and even essential basic factual information, In Between Days can best be described as a skillfully lensed missed opportunity.
July 11, 2007
A quiet specimen of personal storytelling at its most exciting.
Full Review
| Original Score: A
July 6, 2007
In Between Days plays like a teen movie with all the narration removed.
Original Score: B+
June 29, 2007
In Between Days is a small slice of a suspended life, intimate and filled with the mundane details most people forget when the waiting is over and their real lives begin.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/4
June 29, 2007
While Kim is unable to keep us riveted on her near-silent performance, the script and direction have a gentle sensitivity, subtly addressing cultural divisions while reminding us that angst, at least, is universal.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
June 27, 2007
In Between Days is instantly compelling.
June 27, 2007
Its theatrical release today is an encouraging sign that there is still room, even in the midst of the summer glut, for a small, serious, unpretentious film.
Original Score: 4.5/5
June 27, 2007
Full Review
| Original Score: A
June 19, 2007
The most intriguingly circumscribed romance of the year, In Between Days locates two Korean teens at a precarious point in their relationship.
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| Original Score: 3/4