Okja is a satire on corporate greed and how awful we are. I know people who stopped eating meat after they saw Okja.

| May 18, 2020

Essentially a pro-animal liberation movie, this becomes a pretty wild ride as the Korean child doggedly pursues the pignappers all the way to New York

| Mar 27, 2020

Okja pushes Bong Joon Ho's talent for spanning moods and genre conventions to its limit. The movie features his trademark sharp shifts in tone, but also melds Western imagery, music and cultural touchstones.

| Dec 20, 2017

Pitch-black satire, heartwarming devotion, over-the-top performance, and subtle drama are engineered into something decidedly (if improbably) delicious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2017

The movie is enjoyable, but part of me wishes it had really gone there  - I mean, why not?

| Aug 9, 2017

It may not end up being my favorite film of the year, but I can easily see it being someone's favorite-hell, I can see it being someone's favorite film of all time. It's that special.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2017

What makes the jumble cohere, as usual with Bong, is his extraordinary grasp of space and speed, especially in the Korean half of the film.

| Jul 3, 2017

The best parts of the movie are also the least wacky.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 30, 2017

It's a sublime tale of the value of humanity, and the horrors we often have to suffer through to hold on to that.

| Jun 30, 2017

The fact that it exists at all, in what is so clearly a form unsullied by executive hands, is a victory. That it's brilliant is a nice bonus.

| Jun 30, 2017

It's a testament to Bong's sprawling ambition that Okja manages to be so many things at once -- a caustic satire of corporate evil, an intercontinental action/adventure epic, a coming-of-age narrative for the girl.

| Jun 29, 2017

A strange, well-intentioned but heavy-handed girl-and-her-animal story that merely demonstrates Netflix still has a lot to learn about the movie business.

| Jun 29, 2017

The film shares Bong's casual ping-ponging of tones, his fascination with picking at society's many scabs, and the way his films frequently skid into violence and cruelty without warning.

| Jun 29, 2017

Okja moves seamlessly between fairy tale, action caper and crime drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2017

It will be a forgiving audience indeed that doesn't recoil from this approach, which is too much stick and not enough carrot.

| Jun 29, 2017

Chilling, subversive ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2017

Okja is an uneven but never complacent mix of fantastic fairy tale; social satire; heavy-handed commentary on corporate greed and our consumer-crazed culture, and bizarro action film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2017

To me the idea that it will be largely confined to people's living rooms seems absurd.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2017

One of Okja's great charms lies in its director's ability to vary tone, pacing, and style between scenes without losing the viewer's patience and sympathy.

| Jun 29, 2017

Bong Joon-ho's all-star eco-fable of a girl and her giant pig Is wacky, weird and wonderful. It's also part kiddie treat and part horrorshow, but hang on-it's worth it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2017