Although this is a story of murder and death, it is also one of tenderness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 18, 2024

While this mingling of crime and romance plots reveals the stern policeman to be a fundamentally fallible person, it also underscores the problems inherent in police work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2024

Director Park weaves many clever motifs and symbolic imagery into his film to heighten the tension and keep up the storm of anxiety as the characters’ clashing duties and wants threaten to finally meet.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2024

It’s a tale told in yearning glances and whispered half-truths, one where the words “I did it” and “I love you” always seem to be just out of reach.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Unlike once great directors whose vision becomes stale, repetitive, and predictable, Park is always raising the bar for himself and setting the new standard for those behind him. His work is always fresh, and I love that he keeps pushing himself

| Jun 8, 2024

In a tender cat-and-mouse game, Park Chan-wook plays around with his favourite themes of a forbidden romance at the intersection of a murder mystery.

| Jan 23, 2024

It's admirable how Park Chan-wook states that violence is expressed in different ways. In this case, it will be neither guns, nor blood, but love, which will stain the retinas of the viewers with red. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 19, 2023

Park Chan-Wook’s police procedural is one of the most romantic films ever made.

| Nov 2, 2023

Park Chan-wook takes a classic tale of star-crossed lovers and gives it a new spin in this murder-mystery romance saga of a detective falling for his suspect.

| Sep 13, 2023

A sequence of Hae-joon and Seo-rae eating a premium sushi dinner in an investigation room and then cleaning it up as they have done it together all their lives might be the sexiest scene of the year.

| Jul 25, 2023

Park manages to invoke the styles of Wong Kar-wai and Alfred Hitchcock in the same breath. A mix of film noir and sensual love story, a tale of revenge and violence neatly tied together with love.

| Jul 24, 2023

Decision to Leave has Park Chan-wook’s signature brutality and sexpionage, but they’ve been placed in the background, focusing instead on the tender romanticism that is as explosive as the violence.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

Decision to Leave has the South Korean director at his most restrained narrative-wise, yet that doesn’t affect the prowess of his directorial abilities nor the thematic expansiveness of the story at hand.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Style is the name of the exposition game[....] What’s a little murder in the face of true love?

| Jul 11, 2023

Cinema at its purest with subterranean emotions simmering underneath the story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 6, 2023

Chan-wook Park achieves an extraordinary resolution, combining natural elevations and intimate abysses with lyricism and profound beauty. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 8, 2023

By the time it works its way to its tragic conclusion, Decision to Leave has spun a fully immersive web of romantic intrigue that demonstrates without doubt that Park is just as good in a restrained mode as he is when he lets it all fly.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023

Its crawling pace and repressed emotion can be stifling at times, though, and the movie's second half deliberately repeats elements of its first, which makes for a long, winding road along which we confirm our worst fears about everybody involved.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2023

Park Chan Woo wraps the mystery in sumptuous visuals, ranging from his attractive looking stars to locations in the Busan area, including scenic beach fronts and a mystical temple.

| Mar 2, 2023

A detective thriller noir that tries to get you to feel something for its flawed protagonists. But they’re a little too quiet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2023