You May Have Missed: No Other Choice (Dir Park Chan-wook, 2h19m, 2025)
Three years ago, I came across, as part of my 2023's You May Have Missed season, Decision to Leave , a taut contemporary neo noir in which a police detective becomes romantically entangled with his chief suspect. Released in 2022, it was my introduction to veteran South Korean filmmaker, Park Chan-wook. As I wrote at the time, taking nearly 300 reviews to arrive at Park's work perhaps indicated some work was needed on my part to consider directors out of the Anglo-centric sphere (more on such later in 2026). Fortunately, it's not taken me another 300 reviews to return back to Park's filmography, as 2025 saw the release of his newest feature , now out in cinema s. No Other Choice , a darkly satirical and undeniably thrilling look at Korean society, with an out of work executive (Lee Byung-hun) turning to brutal measures to win back his job for the sake of his family. Park Chan-Wook, and Korean cinema itself, has been busy s...
