Time, with its mysteriously apt title and harshly lit modern interiors, succeeds on its own terms, establishing a daring atmosphere of dread.
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07/12/07
Time (2007)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:25
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A tale of love and plastic surgery, Kim Ki-Duk's haunting film is both wryly comic and disturbing.
Reviews for Time
Top CriticAn alien anthropologist identifying humans as insects in man-clothing.
04/02/08
an eisai to koritsi poy thelei na dei pos einai na to ksanaeroteytei to agori tis eno einai mia alli, isos na soy bgalei kai kana noima parpano. Ki isos na soy balei kai idees, an kai to apeyhomai, kai gia ton dyo sas to kalo
10/14/07
A pathological case study disguised as a romantic melodrama.
08/24/07
A harrowing, weirdly funny and highly existential melodrama.
08/10/07
This is powerful stuff, so why does the movie feel less convincing the longer it goes on? There are two ways to tell this story -- coolly distanced or melodramatically hot -- but [director] Kim combines both approaches, and the mixture doesn't congeal.
08/03/07
Time is well worth your time as a moviegoer.
07/25/07
It's a trip.
07/23/07
As tautly 'pretty' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.
07/18/07
It’s a strange and subtly told tale that successfully hacks into the desires and fears of most us who are trying to figure out how to make love work -- without sewing it all back together into a nice, pretty package.
07/18/07
For some, the film will be a tedious experience, while for others it will raise disquieting questions.
07/14/07
Few modern filmmakers are as adept at crafting a haunting image as Kim.
07/13/07
An uncanny and thoroughly creepy nip-yuck nightmare about plastic surgery and identity.
07/13/07
An exuberant, if cautionary, tale of love and plastic surgery.
07/13/07
Viewers in Gotham will be perplexed, frightened, disgusted -- and, mostly, entertained.
07/13/07
An unnerving riff on South Korean women fixated on the idea of ul-jjang ('best face').
07/13/07
Top CriticThroughout Time, Kim Ki-duk flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.
07/13/07
Top CriticA truly unpredictable film and you watch it transfixed by its singular peregrinations and the fatalistic determination of the monumentally wrong-headed Se-heui.
07/13/07
A mesmerizing film by South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk about cosmetic surgery and the yearning of those who put their faith in external physical changes to their bodies.
07/12/07
In addition to statements about urban anonymity and the cult of beauty, writer-director Kim is also making a mordant statement about love, the kind you can get lost in while losing yourself.
07/12/07
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