This disc’s gorgeous 4K transfer and slate of extras make a strong case for the importance of physical releases of streaming titles.
Criterion has fully honored and even redefined the film’s robustly imagined, terrifying, and humorous aesthetic.
Bong historic international breakthrough receives a superlative Blu-ray package from Criterion.
Given the academy’s long history and resurgent embrace of technical triumphs, we’re not holding our breath for an upset here.
One of the realities of the Oscar race is that you never want to peak too early.
Even the most casual exchanges at the festival ended with some variation of a sentiment that arose as a mantra: “It’s complicated.”
Bong Joon-ho’s excoriation of a dehumanizing social culture is mounted with dazzling formal invention.
In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.
Okja suggests that the sarcastic humor of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s best films doesn’t translate well.
The politics of the boat as it reaches calamity are mostly reduced to a singular urge to kill one character.
Cinephiles in sync with the film’s politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
There are simply too many amazing films—thousands, really—that could occupy every slot on this list just as confidently as the ones that are here.
Curling is a psychological study that refuses to go deeper than what the naked eye can detect.
Now, to be clear, Inception, which makes the juggled alternate realities of Back to the Future Part II seem complicated in comparison.
Poetry nudges us a bit too hard every now and then, mostly when a kindly poetry teacher lectures his class about learning to truly see.
Any film that has a line as hilariously warped as “Jesus, that thing’s hairy” deserves some recognition.
A worthy release that does justice to Bong’s terrific thriller. Hitchcock would be proud.
Wild Grass was the zippy standard bearer for the spirit of “there’s nothing you can’t do.”
There’s no denying the power of Bong’s tremendous stylistic control over the film’s shifts in mood.
There’s nothing in recent memory quite like Merde.