An engrossing, if demandingly obscure, watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2005

If the snail's pace doesn't send you to sleep, you'll be rewarded with a tender and unusual love story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2005

What is so engaging about the film is the way its director, Ki-duk Kim, manages to keep our interest intensely focused on the couple.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2005

A movie meant to be taken on faith more than anything else. The more you can grant it, the greater the reward.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 4, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2005

For the most part they achieve a delicate balancing act, mixing near-silent comedy with an old-fashioned sense of whimsy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2005

It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.

| May 20, 2005

Kim works with the barest of materials but returns the viewer's attention to the pure visual pleasure of filmmaking.

| May 20, 2005

Moves from a strangely spiritual reality to a really strange spirituality -- and leaves its best parts behind.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2005

A mesmerizing, offbeat, violent, playful yet serious parable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2005

What is meant to be profoundly puzzling can start to seem just theatrically silly.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2005

3-Iron may not be a horror movie, but it is still haunting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2005

Here is where things get murky, intriguingly so.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2005

A lyrical, sporadically violent tale of love on the run that gradually turns into something spooky, poetic and disarmingly gentle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2005

A hypnotic, almost wordless love story about transience physical and spiritual.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2005

An uncanny spiritual exploration of the unlikeliest of great loves.

| May 12, 2005

For all its pretense, 3-Iron is never pretentious and is so beautiful to look at.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2005

3-Iron is a romance of tenderness and increasingly poignant silence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2005

It takes talent to entice an audience without any dialogue. In the case of South Korea's Kim Ki-Duk, he's not just good at silence; his oddball artistry depends on it.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2005

Raises questions that are more frustrating than provocative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2005