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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 26 Nov 2013

[Spike Lee's] new version of 'Oldboy' feels like someone stranded by material rather than someone liberated by it…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 26 Nov 2013

The suspense is taut, provided you can prevent yourself from frequently yelling, That's not possible…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2013

[VIDEO COLUMN] By no means should anyone squander the time they would spend watching Chan-wook Park's Oldboy on Spike Lee's deflated rendering…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 26 Nov 2013

It's an echo of Park's film and will be quickly dismissed in the legacy of its director…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 26 Nov 2013

a superior remake that improves upon its (admittedly solid) predecessor in most aspects…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 26 Nov 2013

If the film's successive missteps are frustrating, though, it is because the rest of Oldboy has a dangerously irresistible ambience difficult…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 26 Nov 2013

Lee, in a sort of humorless send-up of Tarantino, substitutes kinky for mystery, explicit sex and violence for sex and violence with real shock…

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By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Nov 2013

Surprisingly, the movie doesn’t bear much of the stylistic stamp we’ve come to expect of Lee, who’s in his generic journeyman mode here…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 26 Nov 2013

Revenge is a dish best served cold, but I'll take it lukewarm as long as I get to watch Sharlto Copley's brilliance in action…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 26 Nov 2013

Too ridiculous to be taken seriously and far too self-serious to qualify as escapist entertainment…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 26 Nov 2013

This new take is an exhilarating, swiftly paced display of Lee's mastery of movie language as well as a convincing argument that at the movies,…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for Grolsch Film Works (64) on 26 Nov 2013

What makes the original's eccentricity easy to accept is the foreignness Western audiences attribute to it…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The Robot's Voice (149) on 26 Nov 2013

s strong as it may be in some areas, this new version is still ultimately little more than a passable cover tune…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 26 Nov 2013

One of the surprises of Spike Lee’s Oldboy is just how dark the film dares to get…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 26 Nov 2013

There are considerable pleasures in watching Lee work in B-movie mode, but they can't distract from the fact that his remake's determined darkness…

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By Jimmyo (378) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 26 Nov 2013

This is simply a cold and calculated revenge thriller that is satisfied to offer a few shocks, good performances with a little sex and violence…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 26 Nov 2013

Let's put it this way: five years from now when you're talking about Oldboy, nobody's going to say 'Which one…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 26 Nov 2013

Given the considerable reputation of Park's original with genre fanboys, the only legitimate reason to revisit this material in English is…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 26 Nov 2013

Lee's failure to choose between movie-ness and deeper meaning leaves the concept under-explored, which is why his version of Oldboy, in part…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Nov 2013

Lee and Protosevich have made a picture that, although several shades edgier than the average Hollywood thriller, feels content to shadow its…

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