A Taxi Driver’s goal is to get ordinary viewers willing to risk their life and sacrifice their financial well being to help redeem others’ names from slander in the name of truth and democracy

| Jan 1, 2025

It still pulls more from its viewers: Do these images pain you? What choice will you make when our world asks for you to make a choice?

| Jul 5, 2024

“A Taxi Driver” is an engaging and educational historical drama that sheds light on a tumultuous period of South Korea’s history. It’s also well-paced and features great performances by its talented cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2023

Despite overlong and emotionally elaborate, Hun Jang's drama film has its moments and ensures amusement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2020

2017's runaway box office success starring Song Kang-ho, inspired by the one of Korea's most notorious incidents...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Violently captivating and emotionally effective, A Taxi Driver showcases the talented Song Kang-ho with one of the most invigorating and captivating performances of 2017.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2019

"A Taxi Driver" is a truly great film that manages to combine entertainment and meaningfulness, in a visually impressive package, under the elaborate direction of Jang Hoon and a great performance by Song Kang-ho.

| Mar 7, 2019

A Taxi Driver delivers a powerful and heartbreaking, yet inspirational, true story framed within a Summer blockbuster.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 26, 2018

A perfect mixture of action and reflection. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2018

Song Kang-ho is the perfect actor needed to portray [the driver]... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2018

Although it doesn't full investigate political issues, the film does not lose its effectiveness because of it... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 8, 2018

The gaze upon that part of the population that looked away is the counterpoint to the friendly face of a proposal based on real events... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2018

A single father who is cynical and miserly at first, the cabby emerges as a delightful and layered protagonist after an impressive character arc, thanks to director Jang Hoon's superb storytelling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2017

While conventional wisdom would lead to you expect a somber affair, Jang instead takes a national tragedy and crafts a winning film about sacrifice and honor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2017

Song's brilliantly layered performance embodies the emotions of an entire nation, and is almost certain to garner the actor serious awards attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2017

A powerful film set in the relatively recent past, but with messages and themes that remain every bit as relevant in today's world.

| Sep 2, 2017

An entertaining journey into a tragic and violent chapter of Korean modern history.

| Aug 16, 2017

An eye-opening look at a tragic moment in time, A TAXI DRIVER veers dangerously into schmaltz, but is kept afloat by the fluid, feeling performance of the innately watchable Song Kang-ho.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2017

A richly imagined tribute to a working-class hero.

| Aug 13, 2017

Jang Hoon's vision is focused and his delivery is compelling. While the story praises the courage of Peter to tell the story of a massacre that would have otherwise been swept under the rug, the heart of the story is in Mr. Kim's personal transformation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2017