Tony Rayns, British critic who introduced Korean films to the world, dies at 77

Tony Rayns, the British film critic who introduced Korean cinema to global audiences, died Wednesday. He was 77. The Busan International Film Festival announced his death on social media the same day. "Tony Rayns, who championed the value of Korean and Asian cinema to the world ahead of anyone else, has passed away. May he rest in peace," the festival said. Born in 1948, Rayns worked as a film critic for Sight and Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, and as a programmer for the Lon