The Ugly

Name: The Ugly
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: September 26, 2025
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 50

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Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: September 26, 2025 | NR

Summary: One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: NR

Runtime: 102 min

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Tim Grierson

Sep 19, 2025

The Ugly is less concerned with the machinations of the whodunit and more invested in how physical appearance defines both ourselves and our feelings about others. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 11, 2026

It’s great that Sang found another way to chew on the facets, faces and foibles of his native land, one that didn’t involve ravenous zombies. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Sep 24, 2025

It builds to revelations that speak emphatically to social shallowness, pressures and prejudices—even if, in the end, its bombshells resonate as less surprising than inevitable. Read full review

Steven Scaife

Sep 9, 2025

The film plays a long game with audiences that frustrates far more than it illuminates. Read full review

Next Best Picture Nadia Dalimonte

Sep 19, 2025

What could have been an effective investigative drama and character study loses all momentum in the film’s structure. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Sep 9, 2025

Yeon Sang-ho’s The Ugly is a dour, depressing drama, a movie that gets so lost in its lethargic structure that it feels like a chore. Read full review

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