Bae Doona

Having turned the police procedural on its head with the magnificent Memories of Murder, director Bong Joon Ho looked to the kaiju movie for his next genre recalibration. A supremely entertaining monster mash, The Host marries political satire to family drama in an action extravaganza for the ages.

The mordantly funny social satire of Parasite was there right from the start in this feature debut from South Korean genre maestro Bong Joon Ho. A raucously unsentimental feast of dark ironies, Barking Dogs Never Bite takes its canine allegory—and puppy punishment—to wickedly farcical ends.