91
Metascore
39 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonOnce again, Lee has crafted a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability. The more we see in Burning, the less sure we are of what we are watching.
- 100VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe degree to which Burning succeeds will depend largely on one’s capacity to identify with the unspoken but strongly conveyed sense of jealousy and frustration its lower-class protagonist feels, coupled with a need to impose some sense of order on events beyond our control.
- 100Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangBurning is a character study that morphs, with masterly patience, subtlety and nary a single wasted minute, into a teasing mystery and eventually a full-blown thriller.
- 91The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdBurning simmers. For nearly two-and-a-half perfectly measured hours, it turns up the heat without boiling over: a drama becoming a thriller in slow motion, intensifying little by little minute by minute, until finally it reaches a shocking, powerful crescendo.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThis is a beautifully crafted film loaded with glancing insights and observations into an understated triangular relationship, one rife with subtle perceptions about class privilege, reverberating family legacies, creative confidence, self-invention, sexual jealousy, justice and revenge.
- 83The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorBurning might not have a huge amount going on below its gorgeous surface, but it drags the viewer along with all the seductive intrigue of a frothy page-turner.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a gripping nightmare.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNew York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaThere is so much fascinating, underplayed tension running through Burning.... I was a little let down, then, when Burning lost its steam in its second half.