54
Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorA gloriously decadent, gorgeously photographed melodrama – a movie where people burst into tears and act very badly towards each other, all while wearing really fabulous clothes.
- 80The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottEven as The Taste of Money swerves toward a frantic climax and a sentimental denouement, it remains intriguing. It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half - or, in current parlance, the 1 percent - lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceIs there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek.
- 60Total FilmSimon KinnearTotal FilmSimon KinnearIm Sang-Soo’s exposé of a Seoul family corporation is stymied by a humourless regurgitation of observations about power, corruption and lies.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerFor all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.
- 40Time Out LondonTime Out LondonAs the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it’s not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a ‘so bad it’s good’ way.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIm could care less about these people as characters, presenting them as either obscenely hot or repellently decaying bundles of flesh.