Okja

It’s a beautiful, Darius Khondji-shot, wild adventure with a plucky heroine at its center, but it’s also a Bong Joon Ho movie, so it’s by no means sanded-down Hollywood homogeneity.

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"Okja" is the heartwarming tale of a girl and her giant mutant pig, brought to life through a mix of digital effects and puppetry that makes a nonexistent beast seem as real as E.T. or King Kong.

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Okja is a messy, go-for-broke satire from the director of Snowpiercer.

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Okja is a fairy tale of sorts, though too foulmouthed for children; it nips from pastoral bliss to a terrorist pig-napping by the Animal Liberation Front; and it takes the eco-menace from Bong’s sublime “The Host” (2006) and replays the fright as farce, with a spirited turn from Tilda Swinton, as the company boss, and, I’m afraid, a barely watchable one from Jake Gyllenhaal, as a drunk TV presenter.

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In rural South Korea, a young girl named Mija (Ahn Seo-Hyun) enjoys an idyllic life with Okja, a genetically-modified ‘superpig’, as a companion. But when Okja’s inventor, Mirando Corporation CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), demands she return to New York for a PR stunt, a fight for her freedom arises.

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On its surface, Okja is a sweet, heartwarming fable about a young girl and her pet pig. But don’t let that thumbnail synopsis fool you, we’re galaxies away from the kid-friendly entertainments of Babe and Charlotte’s Web here.

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Bong Joon-ho's all-star eco-fantasy is a little bit of Spielberg, a little bit of Miyazaki and a whole lot of oddball.

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Bong Joon-ho directed one of the best dystopian thrillers in recent years — 2013’s “Snowpiercer” — and one of the finest monster movies ever, 2006’s “The Host.” You’ll find elements of both in his chilling, subversive new Netflix film, “Okja,” about a girl named Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) and her enormous pet superpig.

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Okja is a wild, tender tale of wonderment and friendship, delightful but still with smacks of vile consumerism darkness.

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Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal lead a starry internatioal cast in this Netflix-bound comedy thriller from 'Snowpiercer' director Bong Joon-ho, a controversial prize contender in Cannes.

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A young girl is devastated to discover that her beloved 'super pig' was little more than a publicity stunt for the genetically modified food industry in this heavy-handed parable.

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While watching the heartfelt Okja, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll definitely rethink that next piece of bacon.

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In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.

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There’s a lot to chew on here, but in the end, I wish Okja simply worked better as a movie.

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Bong Joon-ho's daffy anti-meat monster mash is Beethoven with bacon.

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Okja takes the worst impulses of Walt Disney, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Michael Moore and rolls them into one movie.

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