No Other Choice

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When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt.

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Critics Consensus

Directed with pristine precision by Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice is a wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance.

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Deliciously dark and sharply comedic, this finely acted Park Chan-wook mystery leaves you No Other Choice but to love it.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)

Jan 26

I thought it was genuinely remarkable.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jan 22

3/5

...the mise-en-scene is meticulous, the violence intermittently darkly comic, but the effect is tonally various and curiously blunted.

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Robbie Collin

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Jan 22

4/5

It’s tense, absurd, desperate and daft, all at once: seldom have so many contradictory tones been so gainfully employed.

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Keri O'Shea

Warped Perspective

1d

‘Be careful what you wish for’ seems to be the only clear lesson in an otherwise murky, often hilarious, often horrifying piece of narrative film where you end up risking everything to gain back a fraction of what you had.

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Ben Morganti

CBR

4d

9/10

Capitalizing on a myriad of important themes and concepts, No Other Choice might be another modern masterpiece of the 21st century.

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Mel Campbell

ABC Radio (Australia)

Jan 27

Paper-making acts as a lovely metaphor for people who are out of step with society’s cruelty: paper is disposable, and so too are these men … Beautiful shots almost feel like collages – [evoking] paper using all the other elements that cinema can marshal.

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Sophia

4h

Such a great story! Unexpectedly funny! Lee Byung Hun is great in everything he does.

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Juandi

4h

Okay so I kept falling asleep. Mind you, I drank an entire Red Bull at the start of the movie. Great acting, great storyline but far too long for such a slow paced film. Had it been much shorter, I think I would’ve enjoyed it.

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Andrew

8h

Deeply interesting and visually innovative

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Alden O

1d

I wasn’t crazy about the first 40 minutes, so I walked out. I might finish it on a streaming site.

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derek

4d

its stylish and symbolic but the pacing is rough. kinda funny

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jackson

5d

The power of family.

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Synopsis

When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt.

Director: Park Chan-wook
Producer: Park Chan-wook, Jisun Back, Michèle Ray-Gavras, Alexandre Gavras
Screenwriter: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee
Distributor: Neon
Production Co: Moho Film, KG Productions
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 16, 2026, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.3M
Runtime: 2h 19m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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