Oldboy

Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare.Read Full Review »

Whatever its oversteps and excesses (I do think Park ran a little amok with the computer gimcrackery), Oldboy has the bulldozing nerve and full-blooded passion of a classic.Read Full Review »

Anguished, beautiful and desperately alive, Oldboy is a dazzling work of pop-culture artistry.Read Full Review »

As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip.Read Full Review »

Obviously, this sort of taboo-flouting imagery isn't for everyone, but Park's vision is all of a piece.Read Full Review »

Its magnificence is that it takes itself dead serious. It's not entertainment, but it's sure a piece of toughness.Read Full Review »

You will surely leave this movie shocked, shaken and surprisingly moved. And definitely stuck on that poor octopus.Read Full Review »

Regardless of how you look at Oldboy, it's unlike anything you are likely to have seen before.Read Full Review »

More than anything else, Oldboy recalls Alfred Hitchcock with all restraint tossed to the wind, or Hitchcock's most obsessed devotee, Brian De Palma, at his most nastily inspired.Read Full Review »

It says something when you come out of a film as weird and fantastical as Oldboy and feel that you've experienced something truly authentic. I just don't know what. I can't think of anything to compare it to.Read Full Review »