Park demonstrates how the complicated relationship between role-play, desire, secrecy, power and revenge prove ripe for darkly comic (and perverse) fodder.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2023

Beautiful images in the frame with a grotesc story about the survival in a context war. You have to watch it. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2022

It’s a beautiful film of quality and cleverness.

Full Review | May 19, 2022

Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden envelops the viewer in a clever con game of psychological duplicity, depraved predators, dark humor, and sordid sexual delights.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 9, 2022

While its a feat of technical brilliance and visual genius, its the way Park uses his story to force his audience to question their assumptions that made me speechless the first time I saw it.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2022

The Handmaiden is a remarkably progressive film that, despite using and abusing sex for the most part, refuses to objectify its subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Through the extremity of the story, Park manages to present a number of social messages, once more

Full Review | Apr 11, 2021

Whether you've seen it before or not, now's as perfect time as any to see what all the fuss is about while [director director Park Chan-Wook] begins filming his upcoming his romantic murder mystery Decision to Leave this year.

Full Review | Feb 25, 2021

The drama combines the sumptuous art direction and black humor of Park's past work with a warmth and compassion that feeds the soul.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2021

A complicated revenge story, ripe with detail and secrets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

The Handmaiden is an epic illustration that there is perhaps nothing more human than inhumanity.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2021

The twists in The Handmaiden come fast and furious. It's an engrossing tale that will constantly have you guessing which direction the narrative is headed.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Plenty of humor and an incomparably depraved, unyielding, violent, rebellious level of creativity.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 5, 2020

...the love between the two lead women is what drives this film.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2020

Throbbing with greed and passion, deception and betrayal, the story remains every bit as gripping on screen as it was on the page.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 16, 2020

A rapturously seductive slow burn watch.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2020

"[Park]'s clearly a believer in the Roger Ebert school of thought, which favors appreciation over deconstruction."

Full Review | Aug 28, 2020

"[Park]'s clearly a believer in the Roger Ebert school of thought, which favors appreciation over deconstruction."

Full Review | Aug 28, 2020

After witnessing this spectacle of eroticism and betrayal, we officially confirm that there is Park Chan-wook's cinema for a while. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 26, 2020

The Handmaiden is ambitious, hypnotic, and elegantly constructed, even with all of its countless twists and misdirections.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2020