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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 13 Mar 2007

I always love it when I'm pleasantly surprised by a film I was not excited to see --- 'The Host' is a highly entertaining testament to the…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 10 Mar 2007

A creature feature of a different stripe. An oddly funny, scary, politically potent tale…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 10 Mar 2007

Retains a quirky charm that cannot be discounted. Recommended not just for what it achieves, but for what it attempts to…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 09 Mar 2007

At heart, it's a monster movie, but it's one creature feature that refuses to settle into a mold, and that's precisely why it deserves a look…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 09 Mar 2007

Bong's supreme achievement is that he has made his many messages fun…

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By Jim Hemphill (63) for Reel.com (1,232) on 09 Mar 2007

Bong Joon-ho's The Host is the best kind of genre film, a movie that delivers the conventions audiences expect from a horror flick while also…

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By Michael Booth (186) for Denver Post (1,096) on 09 Mar 2007

The Host is at best a well-made entertainment mixing drama with humor, with enough populist touches to endear itself to audiences…

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By Jim Emerson (69) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Mar 2007

A horror thriller, a political satire, a dysfunctional family comedy and a touching melodrama, Bong Joon-ho's The Host is also one helluva…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Mar 2007

The mix of dark humor, creeping suspense, and a sort of apocalyptic tenderness makes this the best horror flick in years…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 09 Mar 2007

While Bong is certainly a talented craftsman worth keeping an eye on, I just wasn't as captivated by this adventure as I would have liked to…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for MTV (492) on 09 Mar 2007

In the tradition of its underfunded forebears, The Host does have its flat moments, most of them huddled together in the middle of the movie;…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 09 Mar 2007

Godzilla lives in The Host, a South Korean monster movie that combines contemporary technique with the social commentary of those old giant…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 09 Mar 2007

Pure genre entertainment, featuring great special effects…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 08 Mar 2007

A spirited endeavor at enhancing the signal sent from Godzilla so long ago, for even then, under the atomic bomb fallout, governments were…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for OhmyNews.com (129) on 08 Mar 2007

The Host is a mesmerizing, occasionally gangbusters dark ride that invigorates the long dead genre's potential for scares and composite storytelling…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 08 Mar 2007

The Host works on so many levels simultaneously that it's like getting a film series for the price of one. You must, must, must see this movie…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 07 Mar 2007

Both smashing entertainment and snarky geopolitical allegory, this Godzilla vs…

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By Jurgen Fauth (114) for About.com (1,470) on 06 Mar 2007

With unflappable confidence, Bong Joon-ho grafts droll humor and sly political commentary onto the DNA of a classic Hollywood creature feature…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 03 Mar 2007

Because this movie was made in Korea, and not in the focus group fancying US of A, The Host tends to avoid most of the genre's obvious stumbling…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Mar 2007

Joon-ho is more skilled with his monster action scenes than with his virus conspiracy…

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