From 'The Handmaiden' to 'Alienoid,' Kim Tae-ri is a dynamite screen presence that makes everything better.
Trying to find the most accurate way to describe Alienoid is like attempting to hold the sands of time in your hands. Directed by Choi Dong-hoon, the South Korean time-traveling action film is one that dips its toe into both science fiction and fantasy, becoming a bit of a glorious mess that is a formidable one to grasp. Telling a story that spans multiple timelines and genres, it can be rather unwieldy in ways that are hard to fully get a handle on.
In Space Sweepers, an underrated science fiction space opera from last year, she played Captain Jang. She is the head of a ragtag crew who travel through the galaxy on their ship Victory as the so-called space sweepers of the title. They go around collecting debris in space that they can sell to survive only to get swept up in the chaos of it all. From the moment we first get introduced to the captain, she is just cool as a cucumber and brings real confidence to the character.