Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder was only his second feature film as a director and it is genuinely incredible. A real-life murder mystery that was only recently solved earlier this year, it tells the story of a series of grisly murders in South Korea and the investigators’ flawed attempt to uncover the killer. Visually striking, with rich performances and some truly edge-of-your-seat moments, we recently ranked it as the director’s very best film in a filmography populated exclusively by very good films. And, if for some reason you’ve never seen Memories of …

What makes Bong Joon Ho one of our greatest filmmakers is that he’s unafraid to make damning indictments of society without ever coming off as preachy. There are times when he comes perilously close and may even slightly stumble (hi, Okja), but for the most part, he excels at crafting compelling, complicated characters to show our complicity in the systems we rely on for a society that fails all of us. It’s not as simple as “people are bad, so society is bad,” but rather than we are so deeply flawed as individuals that the systems we create …

If you missed the 92nd Academy Awards, the important thing to know is that director Bong Joon Ho's Parasite pretty much won all of them, making history along the way as the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture and first Korean movie to snag Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also just happens to be a genuine masterpiece, and now you'll have the chance to own a physical version of the film with all the bells and whistles it deserves when it gets the Criterion Collection treatment along with Director Bong's 2003 crime drama, …