The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them like a voyeur, and then scolded for doing so.

| Feb 8, 2010

It's impossible to recommend this film to a general audience, but I would think that the bleery-eyed viewers like me who populate the fest at times like this would eat a film like this up.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

After the experience of this down and dirty South Korean psychological thriller, park benches may never quite seem the same.

| Apr 25, 2007

Uma histria de amor absolutamente atpica que, depois de provocar uma estranheza inicial, acaba levando o espectador a mergulhar em sua lgica particular.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2006

It's all distressing, superficial and caveman-like in its amour fou.

| Original Score: C | Apr 12, 2006

Kim Ki-duk nous offre qu'un simple exercice de style se concentrant uniquement sur sa prmisse de dpart sans se soucier des lments extrieurs au rcit.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 15, 2006

The plotting keeps getting away from Kim as the story progresses.

| Jun 22, 2005

I was confused and discomfited by Bad Guy , but I loved it too.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 20, 2005

Bad Guy's riddles are so hauntingly strange and its plot so artfully ambiguous that you just might find the film's grip harder to shake than Han-gi's unnerving silence.

Full Review | May 29, 2005

It's difficult to watch and even more difficult to understand, but the intriguing material is generally well-crafted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2005

His fascination with allegory and symbols is evident here, too, but his narrative strays too far from the dreamlike towards the just plain dumbfounding.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

Bad Guy's greatest fault is that it is a listless exercise, that goes nowhere except further into the mire.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2005

The film is filled with lovely images (Kim studied painting in France), and ultimately becomes, against all expectations, quite moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

One can't get out of the theater fast enough.

| Mar 31, 2005

So vilely misogynistic does the film appear at first glance that it's no surprise it hasn't been previously released here...

Full Review | Mar 30, 2005

Uncompromising, unpleasant and emotionally brutal, this twisted love story of emotional bondage is oddly compelling.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 18, 2005

Its international reputation seems difficult to justify.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Certainly offbeat, but not on a level with director Kim's previous work about marginalized people.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2005

Really, who needs a bad guy who's this guilty about being bad?

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 23, 2005

Almost entirely garbage.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 20, 2005