PARASITE ****

If you must make a home invasion movie do it as a comedy and not as a horror film, right? Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" arrives already festooned with awards and rightly so. In this gem a family of low-life con-artists manage to take over the home and lives of a softer and much richer family that in some ways mirror them. It's like "Us" but without the supernatural element. Of course, a scheme like theirs can't succeed without something going very wrong which, of course, it does turning "Parasite" beautifully and brilliantly into the blackest of comedy-thrillers that does finally manage to erupt into just the kind of horror flic we expected from the start.

With pitch-perfect performances from the entire cast and the smartest script of the year, not to mention the kind of home any family would be happy to invade, this is an instant classic. I can already see the American remake but it will never top this. It may not be quite as profound as it would like to be but for sheer cleverness it's up there with the very best.