Parasite
Bitters End | Release Date: October 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
89
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 16 Critics
Positive:
16
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 30, 2019
It’s extremely moving and thrilling and it will both make and ruin your day. Read full review
100
Time OutDave CalhounMay 25, 2019
It’s rare for a movie to combine cinematic fireworks and social commentary in quite the thrilling and mischievous way that Korean director Bong Joon-ho manages with Parasite. Read full review
100
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 23, 2019
A masterful dissection of social inequality and the psychology of money. Read full review
91
The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaMay 25, 2019
Bong is perhaps the contemporary master of entertaining, intelligent and resolutely political cinema. In our age of assembly line blockbusters, he’s a veritable treasure. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 23, 2019
For its first hour or so, Parasite is pure diabolical fun ... [Then it] shifts tonal gears in total service of its class politics, infecting the film’s breezy dark-comedy with notes of rage and melancholy. Read full review
91
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 23, 2019
[A] furious and fiendishly well-crafted new film. ... Giddy one moment, unbearably tense the next, and always so entertaining and fine-tuned that you don’t even notice when it’s changing gears, “Parasite” takes all of the beats you expect to find in a Bong film and shrinks them down with clockwork precision. Read full review
90
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 24, 2019
There’s an anger at work in the film, but what’s more effective is its ruefulness—its ribbons of abiding hope, frayed and tattered but still there, somehow. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMay 23, 2019
As an escalating freak show of tension, surprise and class rage, Parasite would make a terrific double bill with Jordan Peele’s “Us,” which it matches and perhaps even surpasses in pact. Read full review
90
Screen InternationalJonathan RomneyMay 23, 2019
Parasite is a malign delight from start to finish, with a Machiavellian sense of mischief and a cinematic brio that shows Bong revelling in his Hitchcockian control of somewhat Buñuelian material. Read full review
90
TheWrapBen CrollMay 23, 2019
Bong delivers a stunning return to form with this newest venture, which takes bold leaps between tenors and tone, but holds together beautifully thanks to the director’s unparalleled visual/spatial sophistication, and his unsparing social indictment. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangMay 23, 2019
Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 23, 2019
A raucous and blood-splattered social satire. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2019
A luxuriously watchable and satirical suspense drama. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSam C. MacMay 25, 2019
The only thing that keeps Parasite just slightly below the tier of Bong’s best work, namely The Host and his underrated and similarly themed 2000 debut film, Barking Dogs Never Bite, is the overstuffed pile-up of incident that occurs toward the end. Read full review
75
The PlaylistBradley WarrenMay 23, 2019
A demented and often-uproarious class-conscious satire, Parasite falls slightly short of Bong’s greatest work. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonMay 23, 2019
Like much of Bong’s work, Parasite is cumbersomely plotted and heavy-handed in its social commentary. The largely naturalistic treatment here may also alienate some of his fantasy fanboy constituency. That said, this prickly contemporary drama still feels more coherent and tonally assured than Snowpiercer or Okja, and packs a timely punch that will resonate in our financially tough, politically polarized times. Read full review
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