Age of Shadows's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
Kim sometimes loses the rhythm of his spy thriller, but he's such a confident filmmaker?and his leading man such a magnetic presence?that he quickly gets its back.
Cinemanía
Gripping from the first sequence, this thriller keeps a fourious pace up untill the end, regardless of the viewer's ability to follor (...)
Los Angeles Times
Kim Jee-woon likes to work at his own pace, and he carries you over the narrative ramparts with style, verve and abundant confidence that all will be made clear in due course.
Variety
Cult director Kim Jee-woon delivers the goods with an ultra-stylish cloak-and-dagger actioner set in 1920s Korea, under the Japanese occupation.
Indiewire
Kim Jee-woon will always gravitate towards the bleaker side of the things, but ?The Age of Shadows? suggests that his stories might benefit from just a little bit more light.
Fotogramas
Perhaps, one of the most rotund works of the contemporary oriental cinema.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote