Paradise Lost

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

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 🇵🇸

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

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

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Mike D'Angelo

First ever cinematic portrayal of a ChatGPT addicted mom

Lauren

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…

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Yeon Sang-ho has spent much of his career watching what happens when humanity is pushed past its limits. In “Train to Busan” and “Colony,” the answer came as zombies; humanity stripped down and re-examined under infection and collapse. “Paradise Lost,” which premiered at…

Sara Clements

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