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Lady Vengeance Review

Movies.com Critics

4.5

Dave White Profile

… less frenzied, less bloody … Read full review

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

  • 4.0
    75

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    A convoluted hodge-podge of time frames, subplots and bit player back stories.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Derek Elley

    A wildly inventive, highly cinematic director's showcase that looks likely, at least in the West, to enthuse fans of Asian -- especially Korean -- genre movies more than general auds.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

    Mixes comedy and melodrama to a typically baroque degree. Like his "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," the film displays an audacious visual and narrative style, often sacrificing credibility and coherence along the way. But there is no denying its originality.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Lady Vengeance contains violence (some extreme), but it is not an action film. It is deliberately paced, allowing the audience to have time to reflect upon what's happening. And the comedy is of the gallows variety.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    A comedy of evil and strange redemption, Lady Vengeance makes sure that we feel the pain, that we know what it's like to unreasonably suffer, because those are the rules of its mad, wounding, vengeful world.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    "Old Boy's" vivid star Choi Min-sik plays a terrible schoolteacher -- yet another damned soul in Park's inflammatory, inimitable movie inventory of hell on earth.

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