Lady Vengeance is an electrifying South Korean thriller with a strong female protagonist, a bold color palette, and a healthy dose of dark humor.

| May 24, 2022

[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance] far surpasses Oldboy in its ability to dazzle and unnerve.

| Jan 5, 2021

Park Chan-wook focused on a female character and created a unique amalgam of black humor, blasphemous irony, extreme violence, which at times, is turned on children, and liberating humanism, chiefly depicted in the final sequence of collective revenge

| Apr 6, 2019

As a man is made to mediate the terms of his own murder, Park Chan-wook offers a perfect resolution to his "Vengeance" trilogy: an acutely agonizing elegy for whatever shred of humanity is left after the impulse for vengeance has worked itself out.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2010

Talks Sin and Salvation while spending all his creative energies on debasing gags and sneering wide-angle shots

| Aug 30, 2009

Park Chanwook works his Grand Guignol sense of humor against Korean social conditions to effect a call-and-response logic to the metaphoric and literal things that happen onscreen.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 15, 2009

The kind of glorious sensory rush that you can only get when a supremely confident director fully kicks out the jams. Submerged within the flash, however, is a nihilistic worldview that may be even more curdled than its predecessors.

| Oct 21, 2007

The story is delightfully multilayered, the look stylish, and the horror component top notch.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

If you have a taste for revenge or just a taste for wickedly well-done filmmaking, help yourself to a serving of Lady Vengeance.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2007

What most will take from Lady Vengeance is a director in love with film and the ability to express that passion through the language of his medium.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Exciting, nerve-wracking and utterly original.

| Mar 1, 2007

No capítulo final de sua trilogia sobre a Vingança, Park (com seu dom habitual para criar belíssimos quadros) concebe um conto de moralidade surpreendente, complexo e assustador, levando o espectador a confrontar sua própria percepção sobre o assunto.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 31, 2006

Park Chanwook's latest revenge thriller isn't as graphic as earlier ones, but may be even more psychologically violent -- and that's a compliment, as it leads to astounding revelations about guilt and justice.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2006

Didn't have enough heart for me to find its soft spot.

| Original Score: C | Dec 20, 2006

The theme of how all-around bad revenge is starts to wear a little thin... But there's always a perverse delight in just watching how a Park movie is executed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2006

A collideorscape it is, and a very fine one.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2006

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

It has an operatic scale and an emotional eloquence and, along the way, in the juxtaposition of its variously conflicting elements, we see how vengeance turns to redemption.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2006

may be the most emotionally affecting, perversely amusing and deeply disturbing of the trilogy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2006

Park cleverly shows us that justice and revenge can be equally horrifying

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2006