What Does That Nature Say to You
Cinema Guild | Release Date: February 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Original-CinLiam LaceyMar 18, 2026
By the end, we have the sense of witnessing a blackly funny social encounter, but watched a heroic fable in reverse, in which the clueless Donghwa, instead of a hero-conquering the dragon and saving the princess, has been politely demolished, chewed up and spit back out. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 27, 2026
Hong renders these universal conflicts locally specific and intimately personal. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSep 17, 2025
Hong Sang-soo’s aesthetic is key to the resonance of his latest examination of an artist’s life. Read full review
80
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellOct 8, 2025
The set-up is familiarly threadbare, with numerous lackadaisical interactions between some sort of creative type confronted by new people whose orbits slowly circle one another as they engage in an eat/drink/be merry scenario. But it builds to a surprisingly weighty climax in a third act which is more confrontational about duplicitous human behaviors than most of his past works. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 17, 2025
What Does That Nature Say To You may be a touch disappointing for lovers of the director’s wry understatement, as certain themes feel uncharacteristically emphatic and even, in a last-act discussion scene, too explicitly stated. Otherwise, a group of regular Hong players mesh with seemingly effortless grace in a way that is bound to click with fans and with the director’s regular international outlets. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 18, 2025
This movie lodged in my mind a little more than Hong’s earlier films, perhaps because it is less contrived and it features a genuinely funny and complex opening scene. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 17, 2025
This movie lodged in my mind a little more than Hong’s earlier films, perhaps because it is less contrived and it features a genuinely funny and complex opening scene. Read full review
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