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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Sep 2016

Park goes all-out in series of gratuitous, nearly explicit, sex scenes…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 07 Sep 2016

An appealing world which has been built upon the bowels of Hell, a spectacular drama with fierce performances and fiery sensuality…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Jun 2016

[CANNES 2016] Lush production designs and keen cinematography drink in dynamic performances (by Kim Min-Hee and Kim Tae-Ri) teeming with an…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 25 May 2016

The Handmaiden is sexy and twisty and so compelling despite this, lodging itself in the points of view of two women who are constantly underestimated…

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By Catherine Bray (216) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 May 2016

Practically every surface in the film screams fetish, and, as in his underrated Stoker, Chan-Wook locates eroticism in some unusual places…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 May 2016

Expectations are fully met in Park Chan-wook’s exquisitely filmed The Handmaiden (Agassi), an amusingly kinky erotic thriller and love story…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 20 May 2016

No matter its overarching ridiculousness, The Handmaiden remains a hugely enjoyable dose of grotesque escapism from a master of the form…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2016

An intensely pleasurable, lavishly shot dessert tray of utter hokum, The Handmaiden is a prime example of why we should be glad that there’s…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 20 May 2016

The film reveals its twists and turns with a delicate hand and always manages to stay one step ahead of the audience, even as most of those…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 20 May 2016

Given the nudity on show, some are already quick to criticise Park’s direction as gratuitous and to claim that his male gaze is affecting…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2016

The film manages the tricky feat of both staying true to Waters breathless, page-turning prose, and creating a wholly persuasive new milieu…

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By Maggie Lee (98) for Variety (12,700) on 20 May 2016

It’s sybaritic, cruel and luridly mesmerizing…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2016

Those familiar with Park’s earlier work will know that he’s hardly the most subtle of filmmakers, and his approach to gender politics here…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 20 May 2016

It’s hard to pinpoint the precise moment at which The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook’s deviously kinky period thriller, shifts from being a…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 May 2016

Starts out looking as if it'll be a deeply serious (and seriously depressing) tale of a Korean comfort woman forced to service the occupying…

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By Alberto Sáez Villarino (72) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 19 May 2016

The Korean filmmaker makes a great comeback with his transgressive adaptation of one of the most notorious authors of homosexual fiction…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 19 May 2016

An intelligent, funny erotic thriller, The Handmaiden seems destined for some kind of American remake…

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By Talia Soghomonian (8) for Collider (1,032) on 17 May 2016

Manages to surprise us in almost every scene, every frame…

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By Diego Lerer (25) for Otroscines.com (322) on 15 May 2016

The film is not all bad -and ensures another surprise at the end-, but by that time you'll be already tired of a story that might well have…

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By Luis Martínez (274) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 15 May 2016

The imaginery used by Chan-Wook is both bright as dirty, as delicately as culpably exhibitionist voyeur. [Full review in spanish]…

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