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By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 02 Jul 2017

There is a lot going on in this film, in terms of plot, themes and tone, and director Joon-Ho Bong shows himself to be a master at holding…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 02 Jul 2017

Audacious, socially-conscious allegorical fable…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 02 Jul 2017

Okja is a fairy tale of sorts, though too foulmouthed for children; it nips from pastoral bliss to a terrorist pig-napping by the Animal Liberation…

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By Betty Jo Tucker (725) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 02 Jul 2017

Outrageous as the 'Okja' plot may seem, it deals with important issues and makes us think-- not simply enjoy. It ends up being a movie that matters…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Jun 2017

It's everything you want a movie to be: smart, daring, lavish and packed with surprises…

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By Michael Heaton (182) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 29 Jun 2017

While the eco-parable Okja has some good and some not-so-good qualities, it suffers from a fatal flaw that goes to its very core…

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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 29 Jun 2017

Hijinks and high-speed chases give way to horror and Holocaust imagery as we see the conditions in which Okja's factory-farmed brethren live…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 29 Jun 2017

It's a riot of shifting tones, bouncing from adorable girl-and-her-pet comedy to rescue action thriller to over-the-top satire…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Jun 2017

A nutty, awkward, oddly impassioned parable that mashes together so many different genres that calling it “unclassifiable” doesn’t really…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 29 Jun 2017

Bong Joon-ho guarantees Okja is not your typical girl-and-her-giant-hippo-like-pig story…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 29 Jun 2017

It's a sublime tale of the value of humanity, and the horrors we often have to suffer through to hold on to that…

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By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 29 Jun 2017

Bong wants us to get worked up ...but Okja's plot itself is modified for people who don't know they're watching propaganda so long as it pushes…

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By Dominick Mayer (133) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 29 Jun 2017

For all of the chaos that Okja eventually steers into, its best face is as a simple story of a child on the cusp of young womanhood, trying…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 29 Jun 2017

The fact that it exists at all, in what is so clearly a form unsullied by executive hands, is a victory. That it's brilliant is a nice bonus…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Jun 2017

Offers more high-energy genre subversion from South Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho, who this time uses a Spielberg-ian children's fantasy…

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By Ken Tucker (102) for Yahoo! TV (20) on 29 Jun 2017

It is the many ravishing depictions of Okja's life with Mija -- the beauty the film finds in even so large and ungainly a creature -- that…

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By Greg Bruce (1) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 29 Jun 2017

When the stuff we're watching in the theatre is mostly dross, and we're sharing not others' pleasure but their disappointment, isn't it nice…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 29 Jun 2017

It’s not the savage darkness of Okja that lingers most after it ends, or even the political allusions…

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By Lauren Carroll Harris (50) for Junkee (216) on 29 Jun 2017

The first half is weird and tough; until you realised you have to read the film like a fable; it's like a live-action version of Spirited Away…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 29 Jun 2017

A rollicking tale about animal rights, interspecies love, and corporate greed…

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