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A brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic invention as well as a passionate and painful human love story.
100
Blending plot elements of "Double Indemnity" and "Natural Born Killers" with the ripe sensuality of Francis Coppola's take on "Dracula," the film should make audiences sit up in startled pleasure, as if they'd just received the most luscious neck-bite.
91
A gaudy, daring, operatic, and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook.
88
Be warned: Thirst is one of those pictures that tacks on another chapter just when you think it’s wrapping up.
80
A terrific film. Loosely based on Emile Zola's novel "Therese Raquin."
80
Are you hungering for that rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft, ravishing undead, biting passion and a healthy splash of irony as well as iron in all that spilled red blood? Wait no longer, Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's Thirst should satisfy.
75
Thirst never picks up the momentum of Park’s best-known work. But its turgid pace creates a queasy fascination all its own, drawing viewers into an ever-darkening locus of sin and obsession where even the wish for redemption comes at a terrible cost.
75
The summer's most lip-smacking movie treat.
75
Movies exist to cloak our desires in disguises we can accept, and there is an undeniable appeal to Thirst.
75
Thirst is deliriously bonkers and keeps getting more so; you watch it holding your breath, waiting to see where Park will zigzag next.
