superbly scripted and shot, the acting is excellent; Full of twists, shocks, and the blackest humour, at one point Bong's film appears ready to unravel, but he holds it together. This is bravura filmmaking
as ferocious as this brilliant, caustic film is, with its flawless craft and humor; it also rumbles constantly with a bleak growl at just how little all this high drama can actually ever matter
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
"Parasite", much more than his last movie --the Palme-eligible Okja-- shifts tonal gears in total service of its class politics, infecting the film's breezy dark-comedy with notes of rage and melancholy
by James Mottram [South China Morning Post ]
