Haunting and disturbing, Time is the kind of motion picture that gets under your skin and doesn't let go.
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Kim evokes everything from "Seconds" to "Nip/Tuck" here, but his sureness of touch and lack of melodrama make the themes pertinent and vivid. A heartening step up from Kim's previous film, "The Bow."
88
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
An uncanny and thoroughly creepy nip-yuck nightmare about plastic surgery and identity.
80
Village Voice
Village Voice
Simply put, Time is about the eternal war between infatuation and familiarity, and our irreconcilable need to find both in the same person. In other words, it's a parable about the root of human unhappiness.
I'm not sure yet if Time is a masterwork, a deranged folly or just a showman's highly persuasive trick. Whatever else it is, it's a clean, economical and handsome film, terrifically acted, with a heart full of treachery and mystery.