3-Iron Reviews

Artful and engrossing, but the hero's insolent silences get to be a pain.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Raises questions that are more frustrating than provocative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Moves from a strangely spiritual reality to a really strange spirituality -- and leaves its best parts behind.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

| Original Score: 2/4

The attention Kim pays to the spirit world is obsessive and alluring, but his view of flesh-and-blood women and victimhood is still a problem.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The change in tone, from swiftly destabilizing drama to outright fantasy, feels less like Kim provocatively switching gears, and more like he's painted himself into a corner.

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As repellent and repellently opportunistic a piece of work as the various shock-horror provocations that helped to launch [Ki-Duk's] worrisome career.

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I was bored half to death by it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

What is meant to be profoundly puzzling can start to seem just theatrically silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

It's really a point of departure, though, toward bloodier precincts.

The quirkiness does get a little tiresome, even though director Kim Ki-duk and cinematographer Jang Seung-beck are able to capture some eerily beautiful images.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This Korean import boasts good performances and lovely imagery, but it all feels a bit gimmicky.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Wings of Desire ... in reverse

Full Review | Original Score: A

This enigmatic and in some ways maddening motion picture has the power to haunt every viewer it reaches.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

You realize that you've been more hypnotized than intellectually involved. The movie is nothing like a think piece, just a clever diversion, like a glossy action movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A lovely and sublime romantic drama; sometimes strange, but always riveting

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Their speechlessness gives this love story a ghostly, unsettling vibe, depriving us of a key way we usually get to know movie characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

3-Iron matches apparent simplicity to a beguiling inscrutability and ends with the most beautifully bizarre menage a trois to have been seen since Takashi Miike's Gozu.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

...μεθυστικοί ρυθμοί και εκκωφαντικές σιωπές...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Captures raw realities about modern life while telling a genuinely touching romance using virtually no dialog.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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