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

[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

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

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

The debut feature of 34-year-old July Jung deals frankly with issues of sexuality and gender in a refreshing way. The film's style is restrained, but the criticism of the culture of repression in Korea is extremely trenchant and powerful.

| Aug 25, 2015

The film plays like Jang Chul-soo's Bedevilled (2010), only without ever quite allowing its bunny to boil. A deep moral ambiguity comes cloaked in a happy-seeming ending that cannot quite keep off the rainy chill.

| Jan 2, 2015