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Parasite Reviews
Watching that drama -- the bricks sort of build and then topple -- is so satisfying.
| Feb 14, 2020
[Bong Joon-ho]'s work is as playful as it is sincere and revelatory. He'll make you feel at home, and then rip the rug out from under you.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2020
This is what a true masterpiece looks like.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2020
A tragicomic masterclass that will get under your skin and eat away at your cinematic soul.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2020
Far from hiding, the film's beguiling charm stokes the deeply dystopian vision of its maker. In Bong's world, despite tokens like a cell phone or pizza dinners, social mobility doesn't quite exist.
| Feb 8, 2020
Using industrial-strength social satire, [Bong Joon Ho] strips the veneer off the myth of classlessness, giving an outrageously entertaining instant classic.
| Feb 7, 2020
It works on every level which is, perhaps, fitting for a film about levels and whether you are at the top or bottom in life.
| Feb 7, 2020
Parasite works as entertainment and analysis, treat and treatise.
| Feb 5, 2020
An imaginative comedy-thriller with darkness at its core.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2020
Though we largely root for the Kims, Bong doesn't allow anything as simple as rich versus poor, good versus bad. No wonder this movie speaks to global audiences - it's a parable about our capitalist world.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 5, 2020
A film that always has two thoughts in its head at once, a spectacular epic and tightly wound chamber piece, chicly sophisticated, brutal as a hammer.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 5, 2020
A miracle of a film. It feels like Bong Joon-ho's already extraordinary career has been building to this: a riotous social satire that's as gloriously entertaining as it is deeply sardonic.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 3, 2020
If the movie is a Rorschach of who you identify as parasite and host, it's a test you're just as likely to fail; a filmgoing experience that refuses to fit into any box, and forces viewers to breathe the dangerous air outside of it too.
| Original Score: A- | Dec 11, 2019
Let's just say that by "Parasite's" conclusion, what started out as a comedy of manners has become a furious snarl of rage and his most arresting social satire yet.
| Dec 11, 2019
It isn't an easy ride, and as with life in the non-metaphorical world, the destination is uncertain. You'll see strange and wonderful things along the way.
| Dec 11, 2019
It is a sitcom with teeth and haunting moral echoes, no small amount of vulgarity and a smart streak of comedy.
| Nov 20, 2019
Parasite is a beautiful movie, wonderfully acted, impeccably shot.
| Original Score: A+ | Nov 6, 2019
It's a fitting movie for our times, and Joon-ho delivers with uncompromising clarity and vision. See it before the inevitable American remake sands down all its razor sharp edges.
| Original Score: A | Nov 3, 2019