No Other Choice

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No Other Choice

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Jan 2026

2h 19m

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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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Audience Says

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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Andy Hazel

The Saturday Paper

Jul 16

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice pivots class anxiety into biting satire, its propulsive editing, saturated colour scheme and delirious violence marking it as one of the finest films of the year.

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Lexi Amoriello

Movie Recs by Lex

Jul 10

A brilliant adaptation of Donald E, Westlake’s The Ax, a story that thematically falls perfectly within Park Chan-wook’s wheelhouse. It’s got all the bleakness, brutality, and thrills we’ve come to expect from his work.

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Andrew Kendall

Stabroek News

Jun 21

"No Other Choice" often moves with the spontaneous casualness of something easy to engage with, that aesthetic spontaneity is only a misdirection for a film that’s intricately constructed.

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Cosmo Newanda

3h

I laughed so hard and still left depressed.

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Jonathan

Jun 25

Movie was boring overall and wasn’t that interesting

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Julian

Jun 6

The true Oscar winner of 2026

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Bruce

Mar 20

Loved it. So much to unpack and lots to unsee if only I could. Brace yourself for a PARASITE spectacle

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John

Mar 10

A superbly acted and directed film that shows just how far someone may go just to survive in this corporate world.

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Abra

Feb 25

Intense, thought provoking, relatable. Stunning film.

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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
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 17, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.0M
Runtime: 2h 19m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1