Despite a strong premise, powerful visuals, and excellent performances, I could not even grasp what it was trying to say by the end.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 12, 2020

Idiosyncratic, of course, but immensely impressive.

| Sep 22, 2020

Tsai's Kafakaesque existential nightmare turns quarantine into a uniquely harrowing love story, its digressions into abstraction in turn terrifying and rapturous.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 15, 2020

With its flashes of humor and music, The Hole is a disturbingly timely depiction of humanity in crisis as well as a reminder that there are always places to find light if you squint hard enough through the gloom.

| Sep 15, 2020

The Hole is a near-perfect summation of that approach, making something both plaintive and flamboyant out of an odd, small concept that requires little beyond his two favorite actors.

| Sep 15, 2020

It's a fascinating combination of reality and the fantastical notion of the ways in which we cope.

| Sep 15, 2020

The feelings that "The Hole" awakens will be recognizable to anyone, even if no one else could possibly have made it.

| Sep 14, 2020

A story of lonely hearts in quarantine, longing for love amid the day-to-day drudgery of life during lockdown.

| Sep 11, 2020

In a restored re-release, "The Hole" proves to be an eerily prophetic and timely movie, perhaps better now than it ever was.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 10, 2020

I tend to think it's good, if you can appreciate what it sets out to be. My problem is that it's representative of a type of filmmaking I can't appreciate and don't enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2005

An illuminating, musical embrace for the ages.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2003

A minimal story that is too thin for a feature film.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 26, 2003

The humor and ennui that Tsai's vision of dystopia evokes is both unique and compelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 13, 2002

If you enjoy movies that provoke 'what if?' debates afterwards in the theatre lobby, you'll dig The Hole.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2001

Cheerfully postulates the end of the world as an invitingly loony escapade.

| Original Score: short | Jul 7, 2001

| Original Score: low -1 out of -4..+4 | Jan 1, 2000