...Hong doesn't seek to make a statement or offer answers with this jam, which plays out in real time, somewhere between comedy, poetry, and therapy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2025

Hong Sangsoo's film is so airy and delicate that it's hard to follow, and while the main character is quite charming, the film as a whole lacks the strength to truly pull you in. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2025

Hong Sang-soo teams up with Frenchwoman Isabelle Huppert to compose a free-spirited cinematic exercise that is as witty as it is lighthearted. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2025

...[A Traveler's Needs] is enjoyable, yes, but also lethargic and lacking in motivation to move forward. Minimalist cinema for a very specific niche audience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2025

A masterclass in cinema and good humor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 14, 2025

There isn't much of a narrative... Hong Sang-soo teams up with masterfully understated actor Isabelle Huppert for a third time, simply observing interaction and forcing the audience to look under the surface for any resonant thoughts or feelings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 20, 2025

A Traveler’s Needs feels like an experiment whose results are more intriguing than worth publishing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 7, 2025

While the lives captured may appear random and superficial, Hong effects a poignant examination of values and behavior

| Dec 24, 2024

As the film is so intensely aware of Huppert’s presence and the charisma she carries, there’s a magical weight to her blankness, her unexplained idiosyncrasies.

| Dec 11, 2024

Every film of Sang-soo’s is unique to some degree, and his latest has plenty of distinguishing features to keep it from being an entirely experimental exercise in nothingness.

| Nov 27, 2024

The comedy/drama A Traveler's Needs offers a unique slice-of-life story of an unorthodox French-language tutor in South Korea. It's best enjoyed by viewers who appreciate dialogue-driven movies in ordinary realistic settings. Everyone else will be bored.

| Nov 25, 2024

Its rhythms are patient, easing you into one subtly profound moment of everyday human connection after another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2024

In the end, what we’re left with can only be described as a minor Hong film, one whose pleasures, as enjoyable as they may be in the moment, evaporate too quickly to have an impact.

| Nov 22, 2024

There is just enough intrigue this time to suggest hidden depths.

| Nov 21, 2024

A beguiling Isabelle Huppert anchors the best (and funniest) Hong Sang-soo film in several years. Long may this exciting yet bizarre actor-director collaboration continue.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2024

Hong Sang-soo feels like the closest modern example of the genius of Yasujirō Ozu in his understanding of how to capture the everyday drama and emotions of life and project them in a way uniquely poignant and meditative.

| Nov 15, 2024

Achieves, thanks to Isabelle Huppert's mastery, a small miracle in which the relationship between adverse worlds explodes with force. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 29, 2024

Hong Sang-soo has made yet another breezy, undercooked and meandering film with very little dramatic tension and dry, observational humor. Isabelle Huppert's charismatic performance helps to keep the audience somewhat engaged.

| Oct 14, 2024

A return to some of the...wonder and estrangement that made [Hong] a critical darling...but it’s also the work of an artist emphatically concerned with finding ways for visual, aural, and linguistic modes of expression to be developed and pushed forward.

| Oct 12, 2024

A Traveler's Needs has much in common with Wim Wenders' Perfect Days. These protagonists are people of very limited means and ambitions. They just float around living life as truthfully as they can. Never looking backwards but always forward.

| Oct 10, 2024