Park Hoon-jung's new film is an example of what action should be like in Southeast Asian cinema, and Kim Seon-ho, one of the protagonists, offers a wicked spectacle with each choreography. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2024

Coffee for coffee lovers. An absolute enjoyment. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2024

The Childe is a solid action drama with action sequences that work, good acting, and well-done cinematography. It’s a more than good, almost great, action film with characters that are fun to watch and join in on their crazy adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Sprinkled with humor and stunts galore, audiences looking for an action thriller will delight in Park’s latest, all while on the edge of their seat, unprepared for the surprises about to unfold before us.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2024

Some plot holes do appear throughout the movie, but as a whole, "The Childe" definitely makes sense, while its second part provides a very entertaining return to the Golden Age of Korean action thrillers.

Full Review | Original Score: 7 | Aug 13, 2023

The Childe, overall, is simply fine. It carries some decent action but it never escapes the fact that it simply feels a bit vanilla throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2023

The Childe is easily one of the best action films of 2023, and it’s thanks to Kim Seon-ho and his dynamic performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 18, 2023

Expertly crafted to highlight the exquisite performances of its cast, the breathtaking bloodshed of its action sequences, and Seon-ho’s performance as quite possibly the coolest character of 2023, The Childe is a true masterpiece of violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 11, 2023

It makes for passable entertainment, at best.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 11, 2023

With its wicked charm and invigorated take on the tried-and-true tradition of neo-noir thrillers, [it] does a service not only to the films that came before it, but proves instructive for those to come after on how to draw out freshness from the familiar.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2023

This stylish South Korean thriller packed with comic book-style action is saddled with a weak protagonist, but makes up for it with an interesting villain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2023

The Childe is an intriguing action film with plot twists that will keep viewers riveted. The principal cast members give solid performances. There are also frank depictions of the prejudices experienced by half-Korean, half-Filipino people in South Korea.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2023

The action of The Childe is dynamically staged and shot, and with this collection of players, it's devious fun, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2023

Suspenseful, action-packed and thrilling.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

This twisty thriller...is what might happen if Quentin Tarantino, with a bit of an assist from John Woo, Park Chan-wook's "Old Boy" and the spirit of Alfred Hitchcock, had directed an episode of "Succession."

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2023

K-drama heartthrob Kim Seon-ho steals the show…injecting his well-groomed assassin with a refreshing dose of self-effacing irreverence…Like a shotgun-toting episode of Succession, The Childe escalates into a greed-fuelled bloodbath.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2023

Violent, sadistic and quite a bit of fun, thanks to the big screen debut of Korean TV star Kim Seon-ho as a comically-cocksure, joking, grinning, chuckling and whistling hitman

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2023