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07/05/05
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Oldboy (2005)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:96
Rotten:22
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A strange, powerful tale of revenge.
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04/23/05
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04/29/09
Quite an achievement then, and well worthy of its Cannes prize.
01/26/06
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10/18/08
[T]he movie approaches us as if we were both a primitive religious congregation and a benumbed action-picture audience, in either case a group in need of shocks.
04/27/05
The more of the plot's secrets are revealed, the more laughable it becomes.
07/11/04
Consistently, astonishingly, inventive ... relentlessly and ruthlessly vile. Style may ultimately not be able to triumph over content, but it's one hell of a fight.
04/21/05
Oldboy has the fatal air of wanting so desperately to be a cult movie that it forgets to present itself as a coherent one.
03/22/05
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, 'Paybacks are a b*tch'.
04/11/05
The gratuitously vile Oldboy seems content to toy with viewers' sensibilities for no other reason than a few cheap shocks.
02/23/05
That Park has talent in the technical department is a given; that he's a good filmmaker is debatable.
10/14/05
We're riveted throughout, almost pulled into the protagonist's mania -- who has perpetrated these horrors on him and why.
06/01/04
The suffocating Oldboy’s existentialist angst promises sophisticated returns only to spiral into callous Identity territory.
06/07/04
As ludicrously complex and silly as any of Brian De Palma's worst thrillers...suffers from an excess of filmmaking brawn and a lack of brains.
04/06/05
There's a lot less here than meets the eye.
04/17/07
You will either feel mollified by the hysterically moral denouement or feel offended by the filmmaker's strategy of debasement, which reduces the audience to the mongrel-like prostration of its protagonist.
03/26/05
Top CriticParts of the movie are luridly enthralling, and its ugliness is strangely appealing (at least to people with a high tolerance for such things). Yet it pushes too many buttons and is filled with so many false endings that eventually it becomes tiresome.
04/29/05
Its tentacles are still wriggling in my memory, as if I just ate something that should never have been served in the first place.
10/31/05
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