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

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

Park Chan-wook puts a ravishing spin on a timeless story of romantic obsession and a detective who falls for his suspect.

| Dec 27, 2022

It’s not as immediately gripping as his previous work, but it lingers like perfume.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2022

Possibly the sexiest movie of the year and certainly one of the best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2022

Park’s willingness to court a lot of momentary confusion about who’s who and what’s what will be a little much for some. I feel this way: When the filmmaking and the acting’s on this level, Park can zag around all he wants.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2022

One of the smartest, most satisfying murder mysteries in years.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 27, 2022

The narrative is structurally audacious, and regularly deploys flashbacks and clever cuts, and scenes within scenes. It’s also the most melancholic film of Park’s career...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 26, 2022

An uncomfortable, challenging joy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 26, 2022

Decision to Leave is a subtle masterpiece from Park Chan-wook, braiding a heart-stirring tenderness into a murderous thriller.

| Oct 25, 2022

Decision to Leave fits perfectly within the director’s meticulously assembled canon. His twin obsessions are lust and caution – and with apologies to filmmaker Ang Lee, Park has mastered both of those fixations.

| Oct 24, 2022

...this combination of sensuality and the sensory experience makes it so profound.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 23, 2022

What we’re left with, ultimately, is a fragmentary and occasionally alienating journey that nevertheless provides some genuinely lovely sequences...

| Oct 23, 2022

This is one of the most intriguing, sexy and just plain lovely films to arrive in a long time. It’s also baffling, long and sometimes obtuse. The one balances the other.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

Park’s ability at the movie’s end to balance closure for one character and indeterminacy for another may be the most striking thing in a quietly striking film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2022

At once needlepoint precise, and as woozy as 3am.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 20, 2022

Another movie in which style overwhelms substance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2022

A spry police procedural fused with an achingly intense romance, Decision To Leave keeps you off-kilter throughout, in the best possible way. Make a decision to see it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2022

At over two hours, Decision To Leave is an intricate and challenging thriller – thought-provoking and with style to spare.

| Oct 19, 2022

Compared to the brutal, exacting nature of his most renowned work, the Korean director’s latest film is more like a trip to the spa.

| Oct 19, 2022

Even the most expositional passages of this elegant, tricky murder mystery brim with quietly stunning craft.

| Oct 18, 2022