A pathological case study disguised as a romantic melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

This is powerful stuff, so why does the movie feel less convincing the longer it goes on? There are two ways to tell this story -- coolly distanced or melodramatically hot -- but [director] Kim combines both approaches, and the mixture doesn't congeal.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2007

Time is well worth your time as a moviegoer.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2007

As tautly 'pretty' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 18, 2007

Few modern filmmakers are as adept at crafting a haunting image as Kim.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 13, 2007

Viewers in Gotham will be perplexed, frightened, disgusted -- and, mostly, entertained.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

An unnerving riff on South Korean women fixated on the idea of ul-jjang ('best face').

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Throughout Time, Kim Ki-duk flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2007

In addition to statements about urban anonymity and the cult of beauty, writer-director Kim is also making a mordant statement about love, the kind you can get lost in while losing yourself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2007

With a wry tone all his own (the writer-director calls his thesis 'absurd'), South Korea's Kim Ki-duk asks in his calmly assured spellbinder a simple question: How far can we go to transform who we think we are?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2007

Time, with its mysteriously apt title and harshly lit modern interiors, succeeds on its own terms, establishing a daring atmosphere of dread.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jul 12, 2007

Woe are the fools who define themselves by physical appearance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 11, 2007

Whatever else it is, it's a clean, economical and handsome film, terrifically acted, with a heart full of treachery and mystery.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2007

I can't see how anybody, no matter how keen to preserve a positive self-image, could fail to identify with Time, [director] Kim's cheerfully lunatic allegory about two young lovers.

| Jul 10, 2007

Kim brings more warmth and humor into Time than he has in some of his best-known work.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2006