Walk Up
The Cinema Guild | Release Date: March 24, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 31, 2023
Walk Up flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward. Read full review
100
The New York TimesAustin ConsidineMar 23, 2023
A conversation falters. Another bottle is opened. Three people share drinks and their universe is completely reordered. Read full review
91
The PlaylistMark AschOct 2, 2022
To an even greater degree than in most Hong films, the film’s scenes of casual small talk, awkward silences, polite smiles, and glasses clinked to change the subject, open up faultlines in the characters’ lives. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangSep 30, 2022
Existing sharply in such a naturalistic register that they scarcely seem scripted at all, all the film’s interactions are still so cleverly designed that despite being blurry with alcohol or attraction or self-analysis, they all highlight the funny, sad truism that no one human can ever really know what it’s like to be another. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 28, 2022
With each new film, Hong Sang-soo’s work becomes more subtextual, more fraught, even funnier. Read full review
84
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganApr 7, 2023
Without the looming pressures of rent, work-from-home set-ups and casual business meetings, Hong suggests that we might just finally be free. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMar 29, 2023
It’s uniquely pleasurable in how self-contained it is. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMar 24, 2023
The impasse implied in “The Novelist’s Film” gets a strenuous and sardonic dramatic workout in "Walk Up," which is both a work of art and a theory of art—or, rather, several theories, which emerge in the course of the discussions between characters who are themselves artists or former artists. Read full review
67
The Film StageEthan VestbySep 20, 2022
It’s maybe dull for critics to praise compactness or pureness in one Hong film after another, and Walk Up will definitely not be anyone’s favorite, but it’s hard not to be sympathetic to something so personal. Read full review
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