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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Oct 2018

This stunning, slow-build thriller from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong sizzles with a cumulative power that will knock the wind out of you…

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By Malik Adan (19) for Film Threat (5,156) on 05 Oct 2018

Like a brooding nightmare, Burning washes over audiences with passing visions of multiple lives, secrets and betrayals, all leading to no single,…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Oct 2018

Burning actually justifies its running time by slowly building paranoid atmosphere before an explosive, hauntingly ambiguous finale…

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By Niles Schwartz (11) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2018

With Burning, Lee Chang-dong extraordinarily obliterates the bifurcation between life and representation, the thing in itself and the metaphor…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Sep 2018

As it dips into murder-mystery territory, then something more quiet and philosophical, Chang-dong writes a story both expected and surprising…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2018

Both a slow-burn suspense drama and an intriguing enigma, his film is beautifully executed throughout: the three lead performances are all…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2018

Simmering with ambiguity, Burning plays its staging, writing, dialogue, acting, music, everything with carefully calibrated minimalism, but…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2018

Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 May 2018

Burning is a character study that morphs, with masterly patience, subtlety and nary a single wasted minute, into a teasing mystery and eventually…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 16 May 2018

This is Lee’s closest ever film to a thriller, but it defies expectations, offering multiple, murky solutions to a set of mysteries at once…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 May 2018

Once again, Lee has crafted a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 May 2018

Burning simmers…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 16 May 2018

Burning keeps twisting back on itself, charting the path of a man waking up to the world, only to find that it won’t stop messing with him…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 May 2018

This is a beautifully crafted film loaded with glancing insights and observations into an understated triangular relationship, one rife with…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 May 2018

Burning might not have a huge amount going on below its gorgeous surface, but it drags the viewer along with all the seductive intrigue of…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 May 2018

The degree to which Burning succeeds will depend largely on one’s capacity to identify with the unspoken but strongly conveyed sense of jealousy…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 16 May 2018

There is so much fascinating, underplayed tension running through Burning…

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