Oldboy (2005)Movie Reviews

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

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Its magnificence is that it takes itself dead serious. It's not entertainment, but it's sure a piece of toughness. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    His film is not for the weak of stomach or heart, but it's a stunner all the same. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    A wild, intensely cinematic ride into two men's burning desire to get even. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    You will surely leave this movie shocked, shaken and surprisingly moved. And definitely stuck on that poor octopus. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    This nightmarish revenge drama from Korea is grueling, intense, cruel -- the very definition of extreme cinema. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    It says something when you come out of a film as weird and fantastical as Oldboy and feel that you've experienced something truly authentic. I just don't know what. I can't think of anything to compare it to. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Oldboy caused a love-it-or-hate-it stir at Cannes last year, and how could it not: It's an onslaught made to cause a sensation. Consider me simultaneously jolted and depressed. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Entertaining to watch - notwithstanding the scene in which Dae-su eats a live animal - which is a good thing, because there is not much to think about here, outside of the choreographed mayhem. Read full review

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