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A great piece of filmmaking and a legitimate science-fiction/horror classic.Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle

Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

With a subversive streak as wide as the Han and a title open to interpretation, The Host confounds our expectations while providing top-notch entertainment. For Bong, the monster movie is an ample vessel, one that he can fill with social criticism while discovering exuberant amusement in the process.Full Review

Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times

The movie pops up out of nowhere, grabs you in its big, messy tentacles, and drags you down into murky depths, where social satire coexists with slapstick, and B-movie clichés mutate into complex metaphors.Full Review

Dana Stevens
Slate

The Host is a cautionary environmental tale about the domination of nature and the costs of human folly, and it may send chills up your spine. But only one will tickle your fancy and make you cry encore, not just uncle.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
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