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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1   "[T]he movie approaches us as if we were both a primitive religious congregation and a benumbed action-picture audience, in either case a group in need of shocks."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale "The climax depends on knowing that justice -- bizarre or practical, deserved or excessive -- is done."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 5/5 "The buzz was right: Oldboy confirms Park as one of the best filmmakers working today."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 4/4 "Wow!"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "...the movie just isn't that good."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "That Park has talent in the technical department is a given; that he's a good filmmaker is debatable."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "The suffocating Oldboy’s existentialist angst promises sophisticated returns only to spiral into callous Identity territory."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A "The one Asian movie you need to see this year"   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 4/5 "Definitivamente no para todos los gustos, esta violenta y asombrosa película coreana promete convertirse en una de las verdaderas sorpresas del año."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "There's a singular vision at work here, a mind full of imagination and cleverness, and a sharp skill for storytelling. The movie is dark, mad and haunting, and wonderfully so."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "Este no es un filme para todo el mundo. Lo cual no es necesariamente algo malo."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena C+ "As ludicrously complex and silly as any of Brian De Palma's worst thrillers...suffers from an excess of filmmaking brawn and a lack of brains."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "Oldboy is consistently compelling."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "a deeply passionate movie, but its passion is the kind that gets splattered on walls"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Haunting, horrifying Korean psycho-drama action film will make you sweat -- and works as the violence-flick equivalent of opera."   Netflix   James Rocchi 3/5 "Oldboy is a true-to-form sendup of grittier, more lurid manga fare. This is good news for die-hard fans of the form and teeth-gritting torture for those who are not."   Los Angeles Alternative   Jay Antani 3.5/4 "Carefully crafted chaos cloaked in gloriously gruesome color."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 8/10 "The film likes itself. It likes its mysterious plot, it likes the black humor it operates in, and it likes being goofy, lurid and sick."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "Even if Old Boy only intermittently coheres into a whole, there are enough must-see moments here, that the film is sure to become a cult hit."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 9/10 "You gotta see what the folks in this movie do. Incredible!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "The kind of big, beautiful, delicious mindtrip that practically begs to be watered down and Americanized by some tool like Brett Ratner to make as a vehicle for Vin Diesel."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 4/4 "Brilliantly crafted, with gut-wrenching performances and a multi-layered story that covers action, comedy, horror, tragedy, surrealism, even romance."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "has something for just about anyone who can watch a man eat a live octopus or extract another man's teeth with a hammer."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/4 "This is absolutely not a film for all tastes, but it's a masterpiece of pitiless power whose audacious, ambiguous climax strikes a note of insane romanticism as haunting as it is perverse."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4/4 "There is a beautiful symmetry about the story"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes C+ "Argues for its own pointlessness."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Fortalecido pelas performances de seu elenco principal, o filme guarda suas maiores armas para o ato final."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "Kinetic and energetic, funny and more than a little insane, the film ingeniously gets us into the mind of its hero."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- "The overly constructed nature of the script smacks from too many hands messing with it"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B- "... any intended irony is beaten into submission."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/4 "Reaps its full portion of machismo's horrors and hosannas."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 9/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1