Walk Up is about the lives we haven't lived and the ones we still have yet left to live with the hope there'll always be someone willing to imagine them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2023

In Korean, Tab translates as “top,” a play on the word “tower,” and Hong uses the title building well, with each floor representing a different stage in Byung-soo 's life. If he intended the film as a self-portrait, though, it's not a very flattering one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

Walk Up is built from repetition and a difference in the conversational sequences of its honest characters, creating a sensation of temporary stillness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2023

Walk Up is a formally cheeky, confident film from one of contemporary cinema’s true masters.

| Aug 21, 2023

Hong Sang-soo takes a simple premise, and uses it to experiment with storytelling asking his audience to immerse themselves in a rewarding ending.

| Jul 25, 2023

Walk Up is in B&W, which adds to its air of minimalist drollery. I’ll admit, after many tries, Hong’s peculiar, personal, very consistent cinema still doesn’t do much for me.

| Jun 8, 2023

A handful of characters... share wine and food as they converse, talking and talking and talking with a static camera watching from medium long shot. As in real life, the casual exchanges reveal a world of psychological attitudes and cultural attributes.

| May 4, 2023

A movie to be puzzled over instead of solved, seemingly designed to trip up anybody trying to take things too literally.

| Apr 26, 2023

Walk Up is amusing, and as visually pleasing as any of Hong’s films, with its studies of interior spaces, glimpses of exteriors, and questions about the in-betweens.

| Apr 21, 2023

The word is once again the absolute protagonist of Hong's film and the long conversations take place with his customary unimpeded air of naturalism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 11, 2023

Walk Up presents a wonderful triptych (with an epilogue-esque addendum at the very end) that showcases Hong Sang-soo's narrative finesse.

| Original Score: 8.4/10 | Apr 7, 2023

It's as if Hong was daydreaming about the possibilities of his future, dreaming about retiring in Jeju Island, possibly with someone who will support him and spoil him. Interesting to see how small things in life inspire Hong to make a film.

| Apr 3, 2023

It has a beguiling, haunted feeling—a sense that even as things are moving up, they’re slipping away.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 1, 2023

“Walk Up” flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward.

| Mar 30, 2023

Hong Sang-soo’s characters have grown older with him, and most of the main figures here are middle-aged, reckoning with the breakdown of the body and how most relationships expire, or how sometimes people eventually find they’re best suited to be alone.

| Mar 27, 2023

Like many great artists, Hong appears in some ways to be trying to tell the same story over and over, each new film an attempt to solve the same essential riddle about what makes us tick. Just as well.

| Mar 23, 2023

This delightful film is not so much a crowdpleaser than it is a sly peephole; it wonders at the sheer simplicity of everyday life. A delightful addition to the prolific auteur’s oeuvre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 21, 2023

Without leaving his comfort zone, Hong expands the margins of his repertoire just a little bit more in this film anchored by a new theme of an artist’s incompatibility with domesticity.

| Oct 10, 2022

What Hong subtly and impressively achieves in his film is a merging of time and space, allowing the apartment building to strip away any sense of when its events are occurring.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 7, 2022

The remarkable achievement of Walk Up is that Hong manages to accommodate both... a linear, behaviorally coherent chronology and a metaphysical image of simultaneously coexisting presents.

| Oct 1, 2022