Review: Minari and Tom & Jerry

Minari might be the perfect film to watch during this horrid wave of Anti-Asian and Anti-Asian American crime in the US to help others understand that we’re not different, we’re all human. Then there’s the visually unsettling and unnecessary Tom & Jerry to consider.

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More about Minari – A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Starring: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Yuh-Jung Youn, and Will Patton.

More about Tom & Jerry:

One of the most beloved rivalries in history is reignited when Jerry moves into New York City’s finest hotel on the eve of “the wedding of the century,” forcing the event’s desperate planner to hire Tom to get rid of him, in director Tim Story’s “Tom and Jerry.” The ensuing cat and mouse battle threatens to destroy her career, the wedding and possibly the hotel itself. But soon, an even bigger problem arises: a diabolically ambitious staffer conspiring against all three of them. Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda, and Ken Jeong.