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Metascore®85 out of 100 | Universal acclaim

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

  • 100
    The New Yorker | Anthony Lane

    I have seen The Host twice and have every intention of watching it again. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    With a subversive streak as wide as the Han and a title open to interpretation, The Host confounds our expectations while providing top-notch entertainment. For Bong, the monster movie is an ample vessel, one that he can fill with social criticism while discovering exuberant amusement in the process. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The Host is a cautionary environmental tale about the domination of nature and the costs of human folly, and it may send chills up your spine. But only one will tickle your fancy and make you cry encore, not just uncle. Read full review

  • 90
    Time | Richard Corliss

    If this madly entertaining movie has a fault, it's that it's too ingenious for the genre it ostensibly inhabits. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    This Korean-made film takes the well-worn creature-feature genre and spins it on its head thrillingly. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Most of all, The Host functions as a popcorn movie par excellence, loaded with the most familiar conventions, but shot through with such conviction and visual panache that even its clichés seem invigorating. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    On almost every level, there's never quite been a monster movie like The Host. Egregiously subverting its own genre while still delivering shocks at a pure genre level, and marbled with straight-faced character humor that constantly throws the viewer off balance. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | J. Hoberman

    Gross-out horror is never far from comedy and The Host, Bong Joon-ho's giddy creature feature, has an anarchic mess factor worthy of a pile of old "Mad" magazines. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The Host is a strange little movie: part creature feature, part social commentary, and part slapstick comedy. The problem with the film is that the sum isn't greater than the parts and the pieces don't fuse in a way that's consistently pleasing or cinematically satisfying. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.3 out of 5

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