A Traveler's Needs
Finecut | Release Date: November 22, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
IndieWireDavid OpieNov 21, 2024
As is so often the case for Hong, his latest is a gentle, hypnotically watchable film that breezes by as Iris does herself, dallying around Seoul in a loose summer dress and her striking bright-green cardigan. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 10, 2024
Hong makes all of this look as easy and fluent as breathing. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 24, 2024
The newness is subtle and gently perplexing, but very satisfying indeed. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 24, 2024
If Huppert’s endearingly scatty, offhand performance lends proceedings a veil of comfy familiarity, however, A Traveler’s Needs nonetheless finds the indefatigable Korean auteur at his most puckishly cryptic. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonNov 22, 2024
In Hong's movies, conversations are battles, and words are weapons used to strike down the neuroses of even the gentlest of combatants. "Traveler's" is no different a battlefield. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorFeb 24, 2024
A Traveller’s Needs is just the tonic: a film that passes through you like a breath of fresh air. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 21, 2024
This is his third overall feature with Huppert, who adds drollery and an air of mystery. And there is just enough intrigue this time — one motif involves the difficulty of translating a work by Yoon Dong-ju, a Korean poet who died in 1945 after being imprisoned in Japan — to suggest hidden depths. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 23, 2024
Hong Sang-soo’s films have tricky narrative juxtapositions and symbols that often render potentially mundane moments transcendent. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinFeb 24, 2024
Given no one is a novelist or a poet or a filmmaker here, this represents a bit of an adventure for Hong beyond his usual milieu. That said, this is still profoundly slight stuff, thin and ineffable as mist. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJan 2, 2025
Even compared to his last film, the bifurcated dual character studies of In Our Day, A Traveler’s Needs feels less like a completed movie and more like an acting exercise. Read full review
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