Whatever else it may be, the film is an unflattering portrait of this egotistical, self-important professional layer in South Korea, conformist but bullying.

| Feb 15, 2021

Woman is the Future of Man is close to a masterpiece from writer/director Hong Sang-soo.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 29, 2019

One of the easiest films of Hong Sang-soo to watch, and a movie that all fans of art house films will enjoy, even if this is their first experience with Hong Sang-soo.

| Apr 21, 2019

The simple structure, unwinding over roughly 36 hours, unassumingly encompasses a lifetime of disappointment and inescapable male foolishness. It's quite a rich, absorbing spectacle.

| Apr 11, 2018

Hong sticks to lengthy, static shots, but still somehow manages a heartbreaking grace.

| Apr 19, 2007

Brace yourself for several extended, sexually-explicit scenes which would qualify as soft porn. Rebels in heat looking for release, not for love or a relationship.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2007

Isn't terrible. but it doesn't linger well in the memory.

| Mar 1, 2007

has an elliptical rhythm to it that's extremely reminiscent of French romantic films

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2007

Acutely perceptive and mournful character study.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2006

... elliptical portrait of bored, womanizing men in contemporary South Korea crippled by a lack of ambition and simple human compassion.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2006

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2006

Hong has a grace and stealth of his own, and his scenes tend to tilt in directions that few of us would dare to predict.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2006

Hong Sangsoo's character development and, similarly, relationship progression never develop beyond the slam-bang aspects of romance.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2006

If [viewers] stick around, however, they might find themselves becoming fans of the cerebral South Korean auteur.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2006

Basically, it's an elegant jeu, played and constructed with an almost Gallic lightness heightened by Jeong Yong-jin's bursts of music, all bouncy piano and pizzicato.

| Mar 2, 2006

Hong may experiment with story flow and import, but he's nothing if not focused on Korean twentysomethings and their untethered life path of power-boozing, disconnection, and romantic failure.

| Feb 28, 2006

Hong's linear fifth feature film is much more than what meets the eye.

| Original Score: A | Feb 21, 2006

Provocative, even disturbing in its resistance to categorization, demanding from its viewers a response without the reassurance of psychology or narration.

| Jun 21, 2005

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 28, 2005

Everyone ends up in bed. Given that, you'd expect this to be good, racy fun. Given its thinky title, you might at least expect it to be, in some way, profound. It is neither.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 20, 2004