A loving and lovely film.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 9, 2004

A brave film in the way it shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2004

The actors' scenes together are simultaneously abrasive and oddly gentle: two untamable people trying to stabilize each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2004

Lee's humanitarian plea for tolerance is one of the most original films of the decade, and Moon provides the soul.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2004

A love story of two young people marginalized by family and society that becomes a scorching indictment of the indifference, cruelty and hypocrisy of those institutions as the couple inevitably come into profound conflict with them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2004

Take my word for it: Oasis is one of the most deeply felt love stories of the screen in ways that you must endure a little suffering of your own to appreciate.

| May 20, 2004

You'll have to look long and hard to find a performance as emotionally raw as that of Moon So-ri.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2004

This remarkable if overlong Korean film strips away much of the sentimentality and goody-two-shoes attitudes that the movies traditionally display toward disabled people.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2004

Strange and beautiful film about an ex-con and a disabled girl whose odd bond brings them briefly out of the dark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2004

No movie in recent memory has translated so clearly the secret language of lovers normally lost on the rest of the world.

Full Review | May 4, 2004