Park Chan-wook’s exhilaratingly bonkers No Other Choice (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) adds to the primary theme of film in 2025: It was the year of bewilderment. With everything. Bewilderment with everything. E.g., the Oscars, which shut this movie out. The Korean filmmaker behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden uses his latest film – likely a masterpiece once the dust settles – to address a bevy of hardships in a modern context: Masculinity, fracturing family dynamics, the cruel corporate job force, the encroachment of AI, substance abuse, social media, mental illness, the eroding middle class and, of course, toothaches. I mean, NOTHING’s worse than a toothache, right? And few films in 2025 were better than No Other Choice.
The Gist: Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) once was Pulp Man of the
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