The Isle
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61 out of 100

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  • Summary: Set on a remote lake in South Korea, this is the story of a damaged cop and a mute innkeeper.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    88
    Daring, mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    80
    Kim's movie rocks -- I saw it cold a year ago, and I don't think I've been as entranced and appalled by an Asian film since Shinya Tsukamoto's "Iron Man."
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Rich Cline
    60
    The increasingly creepy plot is counter balanced by a genuinely tender romance, which makes the film impossible to categorise, and will no doubt limit it to obscure arthouses and cinephiles who have very strong stomachs. They won't be disappointed.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    South Korean melodrama uses a unique location, dominated by fishermen's floating huts, as the background for an overheated story that grows steadily more grotesque and unpleasant as it proceeds.

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