The Taste of Money
IFC Films | Release Date: January 25, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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83
The PlaylistDrew TaylorJan 25, 2013
A gloriously decadent, gorgeously photographed melodrama – a movie where people burst into tears and act very badly towards each other, all while wearing really fabulous clothes. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 24, 2013
Even as The Taste of Money swerves toward a frantic climax and a sentimental denouement, it remains intriguing. It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half - or, in current parlance, the 1 percent - lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human. Read full review
70
Village VoiceChris PackhamJan 22, 2013
Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction. Read full review
60
Total FilmSimon KinnearJan 18, 2015
Im Sang-Soo’s exposé of a Seoul family corporation is stymied by a humourless regurgitation of observations about power, corruption and lies. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 24, 2013
It is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJan 23, 2013
For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings. Read full review
50
VarietyMaggie LeeJan 23, 2013
A trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonGeoff AndrewOct 22, 2013
As the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it’s not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a ‘so bad it’s good’ way. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 25, 2013
Im could care less about these people as characters, presenting them as either obscenely hot or repellently decaying bundles of flesh. Read full review
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