We watched 28 movies at Korea's Busan Film Festival this year, and only three of them excited us enough to bring them to New York: Alone, The Boys Who Cried Wolf and this, the new film by A Muse (NYAFF 2013) director Jung Ji-woo. A two-hour drama about a 12-year-old kid, his mom, and his swimming coach sounds like boredom squared, but this flick is a take-no-prisoners examination of winning and losing. Gwang-su (Park Hae-jun), a one-time Olympic swimmer who never lived up to his potential, is now coaching kiddie swim teams. Jin-ho (Yoo Jae-sang, scouted from a school swim team) is his latest victim. Hired by the kid's Tiger Mom, Gwang-su believes that beating his students is the best way to win. And the more he beats Jin-ho, the better the kid swims. There are no bad guys here. Jin-ho likes finally being a winner, his mom is genuinely terrified that her son won't be prepared for the real world, and Gwang-su is coaching the same way he was taught: with an iron fist. Whether it's indulging in a beautiful sequence of a kid swimming alone after dark, or a furious mom is trying to run someone down with the family minivan, Fourth Place is a raw, urgent masterpiece. And we don't use that word lightly around here.