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By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 06 Jan 2017

In all, Kim Jee-woon may be a filmmaker not best-known for emotional subtlety, but with the right material he knows how to deliver the goods…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 05 Jan 2017

The scenes are visually interesting, but with the work running at 140 minutes, its single-note grimness is wearying and the whole affair is…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 08 Dec 2016

It's a rich stew of a tale, with Korean resistance fighters, Hungarian revolutionaries, Japanese police officials and double agents…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 03 Dec 2016

A sumptuous submersion into the spy realm…

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By Julian Wood (63) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 02 Nov 2016

a convincing and substantial piece of cinema…

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By Kahron Spearman (20) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Oct 2016

Excellent gunfight scenes, and the director's stunning images and settings... overcome most of the film's character-specific problems…

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By Shane Slater (54) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 23 Oct 2016

A cat-and-mouse game propelled by Jee-woon Kim's dynamite direction…

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By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 18 Oct 2016

The Age of Shadows [is] a joy to watch, its 140 minutes of action unspooling with barely a pause for breath…

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By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 05 Oct 2016

[Kim Jee-woon's] plot is labyrinthine and almost inscrutable, but he relays information with a fast and slick artistry…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Sep 2016

The Age of Shadows has no pretensions to being a particularly deep or politically resonant piece of filmmaking…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 22 Sep 2016

[This] spy picture is top-notch, with masterful editing, and inspired musical cues that include Louis Armstrong's When You're Smiling as a…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Sep 2016

While Kim’s filmmaking is typically engaging, it’s really Song Kang-ho who carries the viewer’s interest…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 22 Sep 2016

Kim Jee-woon will always gravitate towards the bleaker side of the things, but “The Age of Shadows” suggests that his stories might benefit…

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By Ken Jaworowski (128) for New York Times (5,786) on 21 Sep 2016

The Age of Shadows might tempt another filmmaker to dwell on issues or delve deeper into its characters’ hearts…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Sep 2016

You may have seen parts of The Age of Shadows before, but they're rarely this well assembled…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Sep 2016

Nothing in this gratifyingly focused movie feels excessive or gratuitous, and a situation that repeatedly threatens to spiral out of control…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Sep 2016

The movie’s visual panache and fog-of-war ambiguity are as universal as the desire to detonate TNT under your enemy’s headquarters…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Sep 2016

It's all wonderfully stylish and handsome - the train sequence in particular may send some viewers into an aesthetic swoon - but it's also…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Sep 2016

Like I Saw The Devil, The Age Of Shadows is a cat-and-mouse scenario that thwarts and subverts audience expectations…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Sep 2016

The first act is logy and the finale goes from protracted to exasperating, but a gripping centrepiece sequence on a train from Shanghai to…

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