Paradise Lost

Alternatingly abhorrent and baffling. The setup is mostly fine but it really falls apart in the second half. The characters don't make any logical sense and the ending tries for catharsis in a truly nonsensical way.

Bryan Loomis

Sang-ho’s Paradise Lost is an awkward, frustratingly inert blend of underdeveloped ideas about AI and familiar thriller mechanics. It concerns single mother So-young (Kim Hyun-joo, Hellbound), who spends nine years grieving the sudden disappearance of her son Sun-woo, only…

Robert Daniels

REEL 19: this film takes place in the good luck, have fun, don't die universe LITERALLY right before the aforementioned film takes place

kaelz🥤

First ever cinematic portrayal of a ChatGPT addicted mom

Lauren

TIFF 2026 #49: Special Presentations (World Premiere) Man, I've been trying my hardest to pull for Yeon Sang-ho after Train to Busan but that film is feeling more like lightning in a bottle by the day. It really sucks in a case like Paradise Lost, because there is a great…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Suffers from some truly cursed late-aughts forensic pop-psychology (the idea that you can diagnose psychopathy—in a child no less!—on sight), and the massive AI subplot ultimately feels like a red herring (the resolution is kind of poetically symmetrical but cathartically…

coldcrashpics

some really great ideas but that script is just not it, never comes together quite like it should and takes a really intriguing mystery and subjects it to some frustrating exposition dumps. disappointed.

brian

and they all lived happily ever after in club penguin seen at TIFF

jfkamu

This is 100% boy mom behavior

Allyssa