| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 15, 2008

The talky redemption element, however, ultimately feels artificially tacked on.

| Aug 13, 2008

Stylistically as well as thematically complex.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2008

Oliver's film manages to grapple with some knotty questions about justice, even if it is not nearly as bold or ironic as Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine"

Full Review | Aug 13, 2008

Take is too enamored of its time-shifting gimmick and cheap suspense to ultimately have much impact.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2008

This melodrama about capital punishment has no shades of gray, only beige.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 24, 2008

Take suffers from story overload, which is distracting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2008

Obscured by ugly, dark photography, a jumbled script, mumbled performances, and clueless direction that make it impossible to see or hear a lot of what's going on even if you cared, the result is a film of monumental incompetence.

| Jul 23, 2008

Dramatically, however, Take consistently works, and, with such a story, that's an amazing thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2008

A woefully earnest indie about a crime and its aftermath.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2008

It's like a full-length public service announcement.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2008

If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it's the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2008

Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought.

| Jul 16, 2008

Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2008