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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: There is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how, in the flip-flop of courtship, we often reel in when we should be playing out. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: As gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be, they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an Asian landscape painting. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Once [Kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors, you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: A gorgeous and grotesque Korean film by director Kim Ki-Duk, who seems torn by his artistic and exploitive impulses. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, Time Out: Its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: I don't think I've been as entranced and appalled by an Asian film since Shinya Tsukamoto's Iron Man. Read more
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: Spring, Summer fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes. Read more