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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Unlike the previous two installments, Lady Vengeance generates on odd feeling: hope. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    "Old Boy's" vivid star Choi Min-sik plays a terrible schoolteacher -- yet another damned soul in Park's inflammatory, inimitable movie inventory of hell on earth. Read full review

  • 88
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    Less bloody than its predecessors, Lady Vengeance wraps up with a killer (literally) finale that calls into question the killer instinct. It's one of the reasons Park's brutal films are so emotionally rewarding. Read full review

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Lady Vengeance is not for everyone. The violence, while less over-the-top and orgiastic than Park's two previous installments, is still hard and crackling. The sex is grim and graphic. And deadpan nihilism permeates the air. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    What you get for your entertainment dollar in Lady Vengeance is Korean director Chan-wook Park's brilliantly orchestrated story of how Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae ) got her groove back. Read full review

  • 80
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    Dense with pathos, poetry and humor, this is Park's finest work to date. His stomach-churning climax -- which depicts gruesome bloodshed without directly showing it -- simultaneously gratifies and indicts our most primitive instincts. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    For most of Lady Vengeance, Park is playing with us. But the jokey atmosphere dissipates and the fun turns inside out in the movie's last act. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Derek Elley

    A wildly inventive, highly cinematic director's showcase that looks likely, at least in the West, to enthuse fans of Asian -- especially Korean -- genre movies more than general auds. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    Mixes comedy and melodrama to a typically baroque degree. Like his "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," the film displays an audacious visual and narrative style, often sacrificing credibility and coherence along the way. But there is no denying its originality. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times |

    A convoluted hodge-podge of time frames, subplots and bit player back stories. Read full review

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