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

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A gaudy, daring, operatic, and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times |

    Are you hungering for that rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft, ravishing undead, biting passion and a healthy splash of irony as well as iron in all that spilled red blood? Wait no longer, Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's Thirst should satisfy. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Thirst is deliriously bonkers and keeps getting more so; you watch it holding your breath, waiting to see where Park will zigzag next. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Movies exist to cloak our desires in disguises we can accept, and there is an undeniable appeal to Thirst. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Unfortunately, it is also less than the sum of its parts -- overly long, lacking in narrative momentum and too often choosing sensation over coherence. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Stunning production quality and the story's extremity should arouse interest beyond the specialty Asian market. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Forget "Twilight." Fans of vampire movies are not likely to see anything more graphic, extreme or twisted than Thirst. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post |

    Thirst is good, insolent fun for about two-thirds of the way, before it stumbles and drowns in a pool of its own excess. Still, you can't help but admire a horror movie that prompts us to wonder how vampires with a surplus of blood got by before the advent of Tupperware. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    I'll stick out my neck and say that Park Chan Wook's wildly gruesome Thirst is the most whacked-out version of an Emile Zola novel ever to reach the screen. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    An overlong stygian comedy that badly needs a transfusion of genuine inspiration. Read full review

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