Time (Shi gan) Critic Reviews

Haunting and disturbing, Time is the kind of motion picture that gets under your skin and doesn't let go.Read the full review

Time could almost be written off as misogynistic, except that it's so specific about its rage. It's almost as though Kim was so fed up with having the same argument with his girlfriend, all he could do was make a movie.Read the full review

Mr. Kim flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.Read the full review

Kim is a hard director to pin down. This is the first time the inconsistency has spilled onto the screen, though.Read the full review

Script is sometimes confusingly structured, and in its second half doesn't move as smoothly from scene to scene as in Kim's best pics.Read the full review

Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads -- with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea -- is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.Read the full review