Burning...refers to the resentment and the anger felt by the young and struggling towards the rich and overbearing. Revelations like these hover just beneath the surface of this beautifully directed mystery.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 25, 2019

Lee hypnotises with his story of a love triangle, crafting a movie that could be described as visual poetry.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 21, 2019

This is the kind of film that all but demands a second viewing in order to appreciate the complex elegance of the design, assembled from details systematically calculated to lend themselves to more than one interpretation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2019

Wave your lighters in the air. This bleak movie is one of the year's best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2019

It's chilling and brilliant.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 3, 2019

Burning casts such a strange spell.

| Feb 2, 2019

A twisted love triangle at the core of this Korean thriller...becomes something far more unsettling thanks to a bracing midway plot jolt and a powerful atmosphere of doom and dread created by the director Lee Chang-dong.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2019

This is a landmark film, stunning in execution and engrossing in its narrative. A trio of excellent performances give the film a magnetic quality under the assured hand of Lee Chang-dong. Destined to be one of the films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2019

Burning is primarily about the novelistic imagination, but Jongsu's story also coalesces the mood of uncertainty that has been visible in the Korean left during the ultra-rightwing presidencies of Lee Myungbak and Park Geunhye.

| Jan 31, 2019

I like haywire. And Burning, in its sombrely burnished way, is very haywire.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2019

So much ambiguous detail to ponder, while the visual design insidiously marks your memory.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2019

Slow and difficult to get a hold on, Burning emerges as a brilliantly made one-off; puzzling, intelligent and ultimately mesmerising. And Jong-seo Jun is a revelation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2019

It's the type of movie that demands immediate discussion afterward.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 10, 2019

Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" will leave you breathless.

| Original Score: A | Dec 14, 2018

The film paints vivid portraits of three distinct characters and inspires sympathy with a bewildered protagonist; moreover, it depicts a particular social milieu in such a way that one comes to see it as existing beyond the subjects' control.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2018

A languorous, catlike psychological puzzle from one of the essential international masters, Lee Chang-dong...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 29, 2018

This absorbing, if fitfully frustrating, portrait of love, obsession and jealousy is rarely less than fascinating. It's also a fine showcase for Steven Yeun ("The Walking Dead"), who proves he's much more than a Happy Meal for zombies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2018

The kind of movie whose takeaways you could spend hours debating and still feel miles away from being sure of anything at all.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 27, 2018

Burning is an intriguing dramatic mystery that rarely bequeaths answers, usurping the male gaze and dichotomy between the well-meaning creep and madman.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 20, 2018

A beautifully cryptic slow burner that lingers long in the senses.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 15, 2018