A career-defining performance from lead Bae Doona in July Jung's feature debut...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Sophisticated, perplexing and unnerving, A Girl At My Door will haunt long after viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2019

July Jung's A Girl at My Door offers a South Korean domestic abuse psychodrama marked by its slow pace, minimalist framing and unsettling sexual overtones

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2019

A Girl at My Door is well-acted and crisply shot, a highly assured debut from Jung who should have a bright future as she grows beyond Lee's tutelage and develops her own voice.

| Nov 21, 2017

A soulful, shattering drama that highlights the lengths desperate people will go to survive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2016

July Jung skilfully keeps you guessing in a film that might move slowly but is rich in sexual and psychological tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2016

It's intriguingly set up, very well acted, and exerts a compassionate fascination, but offers a - perhaps intentional - disquieting, not quite satisfactory outcome that is less than the 'and they lived happily ever after' suggested.

| Oct 14, 2016

A Girl at My Door is not revolutionary or radical cinema, but it gestures 
towards new and bold representations of kinship and community that are sorely missing 
in society.

| Original Score: Highly Recommended | Jun 14, 2016

Happily, The Girl at My Door gives the divine Ms Bae an opportunity to flex all of her acting muscles, albeit with small, delicate motions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2016

This thought-provoking film grips. With its two outstanding leads, it couldn't fail to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2015

Though the plotting is by turns too opaque and then ultimately too convoluted to be entirely satisfying as a drama, Bae and Kim are consistently compelling as oppressed characters who find a strange kinship in an intolerant society.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2015

An intriguing tale that twists and turns in some unexpected ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2015

[Here,] the city slicker is a taciturn lesbian police chief with a scandalous past, a passionate dislike of bullies and a penchant for lonely late-night drinking sessions. She's played, with mesmeric stillness, by rising star Doona Bae.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2015

The provocative themes ultimately get lost in the surfeit of overwrought emotions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2015

A detective story with a satisfying social justice twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2015

It's an atmospheric, thought-provoking, melodramatic debut from July Jung.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2015

This is a little contrived and soapy, although Doona Bae has vivid presence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2015

A breathtaking lead performance from Doona Bae will ensure you remain invested from the start, right through to the bitter end.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2015

The pic is ultimately held together by the mesmerizing presence of Bae Doo-na in the title role and an equally bracing performance by teen thesp Kim Sae-ron.

| Aug 25, 2015

While Jung's efforts to avoid sensationalism and employ multiple threads are very admirable, the result is a mild-mannered piece short of a sufficiently substantial exposition of its plethora of characters and the problem they face.

| Aug 25, 2015