“… may not be my preferred mode of Bong Joon-Ho, but it’s the mode we need right now.”

“There’s more atmosphere, as well as a spicier mystery…”

“Some beautifully scripted dialogue scenes, nicely performed…”

“A tale of two shots: its first and its last.”

“Gets a lot of mileage out of its surefire premise…”

“…has a paucity of comic imagination that’s timelessly disheartening.”

“Powell and Loy are delightful — slurrily sexy in the manner of the 1930s, when words and glances had to do all of the work.”

“… a slapstick consideration of gender roles in the early 1980s.”

“The juice is diffuse.”

“Keaton’s epiphany over tuna fish sandwiches is beautiful to behold.”