That may sound like some terribly serious arthouse navel-gazing, but ultimately Hill of Freedom is surprisingly satisfying in its sheer - albeit abjectly disjointed - fish-out-of-water ordinariness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2020

The ingenuity of the movie's structure is stimulating and delightful...

| Jun 11, 2020

With modest means and a limited field of action, Hong achieves a complexity akin to the grand historical meditations of Alain Resnais; steering clear of explicit politics, he conjures revealing attitudes through reverberant-and often comical-details.

| Oct 6, 2014

It isn't without its pleasures and occasional insights, but ultimately little more than an excuse for Hong to try out a new stylistic color in his auteurist palette.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2014

The prolific South Korean writer-director's funniest work ...

| Original Score: A- | Sep 11, 2014

The mismatched narrative suggests two possible endings for the film, and where Hong's characters usually lose out in playing the field, for once both conclusions seem equally affirming.

| Sep 7, 2014

"Hill of Freedom" is an amiable way to spend 66 minutes learning how even cultures that seem closely related to Western eyes, can clash. And how cultures that seem so far from our own can be trumped by the same universal experiences we all share.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 6, 2014