With Bong’s long-awaited follow-up to “Parasite,” “Mickey 17,” now in theaters, IndieWire is taking a look at Bong Joon Ho’s filmography to determine which of his films stands the tallest. Read on for all eight of Bong’s movies, ranked from worst to best.

A fter some painstaking delays, we are finally getting a new movie from Bong Joon-ho, one of the masters of tonal balance and comedic tragedy. Following his universal acclaim for

While Mickey 17 is adapted from Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, Ashton’s version is a much more straightforward sci-fi story than Bong’s. In the Korean virtuoso’s hands, this story plays out like an extension of nearly every theme and visual approach he’s used throughout his lengthy career.