Immediately immersive, The Villainess has everything you want.

| Sep 14, 2021

"The Villainess" spins with dynamic energy of wanton mayhem and operatic displays of graphic violence when the talking stops and confrontations begin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2021

Frenzied and kinetic, The Villainess careens all over the place with reckless abandon, where it hits manic, thrilling, dangling-off-a-speeding-bus-while-wielding-a-hatchet highs.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2020

The Villainess is a hyper-violent revenge movie with fight scenes to die for.

| Mar 2, 2020

"The Villainess" is so much more than an action flick, particularly through its production values, acting and directing on the action scenes

| Dec 25, 2019

Your eyes might feel bruised but your pulse will remain elevated throughout Jung Byung-gil's erratic slice of brutal revenge, The Villainess.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2019

See The Villainess for some of the craziest stunts and amazing fights, but don't expect an easy ride for plot.

| May 16, 2019

It's a frankly ridiculous combination but somehow it works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2019

Coming out swinging from the opening frames, writer/director Byung-gil Jung's The Villainess pistol-starts with a breathtaking first person action sequence... then proceeds to top itself repeatedly.

| Nov 2, 2018

A much-needed shot in the arm in terms of action films, female-led films and South Korean cinema. I hope that actress Kim Ok-bin and director Jung Byung-gil will be appreciated for their efforts and move on to do more ambitious work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The Villainess works best when it's not concerned with its plot and story and focusing on presenting intricately choreographed visceral action that builds to bloody crescendos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The Villainess is an action film that simultaneously echoes the spirit of 90s Asian action movies, the cinema of Park Chan-wook and even Euro crime-thriller classics...and yet feels...contemporary in its unrelenting energy and aesthetic polish

| Aug 27, 2018

Villainess is an ambitious whirlwind that just misses its target, but it's a helluva ride.

| Aug 27, 2018

While often enthralling, The Villainess is also a frustrating example of excess run amok.

| Aug 21, 2018

The fight choreography was absolutely ridiculous but in the best possible way.

| Aug 20, 2018

The Villainess will do the job for those who like their violence harsh and unforgiving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2018

That's how to kick off an action spectacle.

| Mar 2, 2018

This Korean action-thriller is more everything than the John Wick films and Atomic Blonde put together.

| Feb 2, 2018

It's not merely that the action is superb in this movie; it's superb without ever repeating itself, and that's all the more impressive because there is a whole lot of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2018

... if you're a fan of ultra-violent action and stunt scenes, you'll have much to enjoy.

| Dec 18, 2017