Park Chan-Wook's pitch-dark satire No Other Choice (Eojjeolsuga eobsda) is his first feature film in three years. His last feature, Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim, 2022), for which he won the Best Director award at Cannes, was a Hitchcockian romantic thriller that eschewed the usual visceral sex and violence of his earlier international hits like Oldboy (2003) and The Handmaiden (2016). No Other Choice is similarly less graphic and bloody, but rather than being suffused with romantic fatalism, it blisters with sharp invective aimed at how the callousness of capitalism does not just destroy good men, but turns ... Read More