Time

An uncanny and thoroughly creepy nip-yuck nightmare about plastic surgery and identity.

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

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

It's to the director's credit that despite its characters going off the deep end toward the end of the film, Time maintains its focus, setting up a mind-bending finale.

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

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.

More accessible than some of the filmmaker's more extreme work.