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100Quiet, mysterious, sometimes violent, ultimately close to sublime.
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90Alternately witty, caustic, tender and endlessly imaginative and unpredictable.
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90Despite its cargo of meaning, 3-Iron feels marvelously weightless, like the lovers as they stand on a scale that the hero has fixed.
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90The insinuating quality of 3-Iron is irresistible.
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88This enigmatic and in some ways maddening motion picture has the power to haunt every viewer it reaches.
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83Creates a thoroughly curious combination of tension and eroticism.
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80It's a love story without all the verbal hooey and it hits harder than most.
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803-Iron gains its hypnotic power by observing these characters through a slight remove. With total command of his effects, Kim transforms an already peculiar romance into something as otherworldly as a ghost story.
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80A teasing, self-conscious and curiously heartfelt demonstration of his (Mr. Kim) mischievous formal ingenuity.
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80A rarefied love story, conducted with no dialogue between the principals.
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80It's a film that will stay with you.
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80The illicit lovers in this eerie South Korean drama communicate whole worlds without ever speaking.
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78It sounds high-minded, but 3-Iron is in fact simple and economical, blessedly straighforward, absorbing, and hard to forget.
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75Beguilingly odd.
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75Kim's wittiest effort to date, with a wordless performance by Jae Hee that recalls Keaton and Chaplin.
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75The sooner you let yourself go with Kim's flow, the more likely you are to come away satisfied. Think of it as South Korea's answer to "Memento," just don't think too hard.
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75Dreamlike and the slightest bit precious, the film is a beautiful, over-cultivated hothouse flower.
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753-Iron is like a Raymond Carver story that slowly, inexorably takes on the dimensions of a ghostly fairy tale.
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75Original, imaginative and stylish.
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70The almost supernatural turn which Kim's lovely film takes during its final act, however, is totally unexpected, and just one reason why Kim ranks as one of the most justly celebrated talents in contemporary Korean cinema.
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70Taut even when ridiculous, with flashes of comedy, 3-Iron has less to offer than its predecessors, but at minimum it's the playful exhaustion of a formal constraint.
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70It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.
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63As a writer-director, he's (Kim Ki-Duk) a wizard with the camera but a plebe with a pen. His latest, 3-Iron, continues the frustrating trend.
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The result is slightly less interesting and less appealing even as arthouse fare.
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60A compelling, if obscure, experience with evocative scene-setting and dreamy atmosphere.
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603-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
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50There is a vengeance motif that is worked out in a way that is both emotionally satisfying and completely unbelievable.
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30As repellent and repellently opportunistic a piece of work as the various shock-horror provocations (The Isle, The Coast Guard) that helped to launch this worrisome career (Kim Ki-Duk).
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DeniseB.1The premise was good so I watched it and was keenly dissapointed. It was slow with very little dialouge.
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PaulH.9