Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 10 – Decision to Leave
Tang Wei is intense, intimidating, delectable as a woman being investigated over her husband’s mysterious death, in Park Chan-wook’s gorgeous Hitchcockian thriller

Our addiction to Korean cinema intensified this year with this gorgeous movie from Park Chan-wook, who has recently pivoted to luxurious suspense thrillers, away from the gonzo-ultraviolent revenge pictures that made his name.
It is a sensational black-widow noir, featuring a cop called Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) who is investigating the mysterious death of a man whose body is found at the bottom of a well-known climbing rock. Did he fall? Was he pushed? In pursuing the case, Hae-joon finds himself falling for this man’s widow, delectably played by the Chinese star Tang Wei – feelings that may well be getting more intense the more he suspects that she is guilty.