Parasite (2019)

Parasite is not background viewing. Every scene requires you. Put your phone down, dim the lights. Bong Joon-ho is doing too much to be half-watched. Give it the attention it deserves.

Some elements of Parasite show their age, but the core of it — class inequality, the genre-shifting structure — hasn't diminished at all. Films this good age better than almost anything else.

Whatever you think of the story, Parasite is one of the most visually extraordinary films ever shot. There are frames here that belong in a gallery. Worth seeing on the biggest screen possible.

I liked Parasite when I first saw it, but the second viewing is where it clicked. Once you notice how Bong Joon-ho plants every detail early on, the whole film transforms. Layers everywhere.