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Read from 40 comments (37 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 16 of them described how it moves.
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“The film instantly caught my attention through its breathtaking, atmospheric visuals and expert cinematography.”
1AngryMan · Metacritic ↗
“Another element I enjoyed is the exponential rise in the intensity of the story, which keeps the audience continuously engaged.”
1AngryMan · Metacritic ↗
“It’s packed with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
Yash_Jain · Metacritic ↗
“The Handmaiden's mysteries will keep you absorbed from beginning to end in this near perfect film.”
DarkwingSchmuck · Metacritic ↗
“It’s a movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.”
nikos3194 · Metacritic ↗
“I just found this to be a bit *too* horny at times. Obviously some of the ideas at hand are purposefully perverse and controversial, but with the way some scenes and shots lingered, I couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable by things.”
Compi24 · Metacritic ↗
Read 23 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“Expectations are fully met in Park Chan-wook’s exquisitely filmed The Handmaiden (Agassi), an amusingly kinky erotic thriller and love story that brims with delicious surprises, making its two-and-a-half hours fly by.”
Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter · 100
“Perhaps the most surprising turn in The Handmaiden is that Park has knowingly subverted his own iconography by delivering one of the most beautifully romantic films of the year.”
Britt Hayes, ScreenCrush · 100
“Thoroughly entertaining, startling and highly erotic film.”
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal · 100
“It is voluptuously beautiful, frankly sexual, occasionally perverse and horrifically violent.”
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com · 100
“The Handmaiden is film at its most exhilarating by a director at the height of his powers, and it’s the kind of singular rarity that must be savored when it comes around.”
Dominick Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 23 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 91, the watch 70
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“The film instantly caught my attention through its breathtaking, atmospheric visuals and expert cinematography.”
1AngryManabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“Another element I enjoyed is the exponential rise in the intensity of the story, which keeps the audience continuously engaged.”
1AngryManabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“It’s packed with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
Yash_Jainabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“The Handmaiden's mysteries will keep you absorbed from beginning to end in this near perfect film.”
DarkwingSchmuckabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“**In the circle of romance, deceive and defraud.** Those who are into the world cinema, particularly the Korean, knows Park Chan-wook very well. But if you don't, then you must. His films are definitely for the grown ups. Like everybody else, my admiration for his work has started a decade ago with the film 'Oldboy'. He had tried his luck in Hollywood with 'Stoker'. Despite a good entertainer, it was criticised. I love Park Chan-wook doing hundred masterpieces like this in Korea than trying t”
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“Talk about the best laid plans! This is a cracking, sexy, thriller set in Korea during the Japanese occupation of the 1930s. It centres around the charming, butter-wouldn't-melt "Sook-Hee" (Tae Ri Kim) who takes a job attending the wealthy "Lady Hideko" (Kim Min-hee). She lives on a grand estate with her cantankerous uncle "Kouzuki" (Cho Jin-woong) and is frankly rather low maintenance for her new maid. Pretty quickly, though, we begin to smell a rat! Is she what she seems, and what has the obvi”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
“The Handmaiden, adapted from Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, masterfully transposes the 19th-century London setting to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, creating a rich and visually stunning historical backdrop. Told in three intricately woven chapters, the film unfolds with gripping suspense, emotional depth, and narrative twists that keep viewers fully engaged. With award-winning cinematography, meticulous artistic direction, and powerful performances—especially from debut actress Kim Tae Ri—The Handm”
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