Fresh
Both brutal and lyrical, writer-director Park Chan-wook's existential nail-biter has torture scenes that will have you avoiding dentists, sushi bars and badly appointed hotel rooms.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Oldboy
15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance.
2003 · 2h · R
Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Park Chan-wook
Overview
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shakespearean in its violence, Oldboy also calls up nightmare images of spiritual and physical isolation that are worthy of Samuel Beckett or Dostoyevsky.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
There's a lot less here than meets the eye.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Quite an achievement then, and well worthy of its Cannes prize.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
It's hard to make an argument for Oldboy based on anything other than pure cinematics, but when the style speaks this loudly, it's an argument worth making.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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