His message, framed in a terrifying and morbidly humorous narrative that recalls the tropes and themes of Greek tragedy, is clearer than it's ever been. It's also never been quite this powerful.

| Jun 16, 2024

It's a ballet of dark desires that seems more inventive after a second viewing, when its shock value takes a back seat to its artistry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2019

It's something twisted you can tell other people about, but looking for anything beyond its grotesque surface is a waste of time.

| Jun 26, 2019

By no means is it for everyone, but Moebius is a devilish perversion that can be enjoyed even whilst averting one's own eyes in utter revulsion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

There is a certain kind of theatre to the violence here, the physical movements almost dance-like as our actors portray all through the power of facial expression.

| Feb 28, 2019

"Moebius" is a very difficult film to watch, a fact stressed by its obvious low budget. However, if one were to surpass the shock, he would discover a true masterpiece of the grotesque

| Nov 3, 2018

With the interesting film structure Moebius was able to keep my interest, even though the subject matter was less than interesting for me.

| Aug 21, 2018

I never saw it as the black comedy Kim [Ki-duh] may have intended, but it's unlikely you've ever seen anything exactly like it.

| Aug 22, 2017

The clever twists in the story are captivating enough to compensate for the disgusting nature of the acts on-screen.

| Oct 31, 2014

[Kim Ki-duk] peppers his film's nastiness with baroque humour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2014

A formalist slice of perversity that never coheres into anything more meaningful than a willful piece of cinematic provocation.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 27, 2014

[Moebius] would be easy to dismiss if Kim weren't so sincere and sober in pursuit of his Oedipal and other emotional concerns.

| Aug 21, 2014

Even by Kim's extreme standards, Moebius maintains such a pitbull hold on its straight-world targets that it enters a shadowy realm of post-subversion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Moebius marks another feature to come from an innovative director who manages to live up to expectation, and yet at the same time, he never fails to compel and surprise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2014

So let the viewer beware: Moebius' rubbernecking appeal is hard to resist, but you run the risk of winding up feeling like a mouse caught in the hypnotic snare of a snake's unblinking gaze.

| Aug 15, 2014

It's one from the heart, and a twisted tale it is.

| Aug 14, 2014

Such is Kim's plotty momentum that the whole thing feels like an extreme joke made of pained silences, one that somehow strips bare the subtext of overbearing parents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2014

When it comes down to it, this a movie where the only major female characters are intentionally interchangeable and exist only to castrate men.

| Original Score: C | Aug 14, 2014

A kind of silent opera in which the actors' precise facial emoting and a muscular editing rhythm create a melodrama by turns horrific and hilarious.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2014

There's mischievous humour here - and, oddly, grace, right up to the enigmatic Buddhist sign-off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2014