No one directs a movie like Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave), and the South Korean auteur puts on a master class of lithe, silky, sumptuous storytelling with No Other Choice.

Marrying majestic camerawork with inventive transitions, fluid cross-cutting, and overlapping imagery and narration, Park turns his latest into a feast for the senses, and the fact that, in this case, such aesthetic showmanship is employed for absurdly scathing humor is merely further proof of his formidable artistry.

A pitch-black satire about the ways in which capitalist competition and traditional social, familial, and gender roles and expectations combine to create chaos, the filmmaker’s biting comedy (based on Donald Westlake’s novel The Axe) is a caustic portrait of the rat race as

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