"Ken Takakura, a great rain-creased oak of an actor delivers a quietly massive performance." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] is a profound, powerful, heartfelt odyssey that cuts to the core of what it means to be a loving and virtuous human being."Box Office40.72426
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[Gong Li] bites into her role like a juicy apple. The great Chow Yun Fat is her match as the emperor..."Rolling Stone "[There is] ominous buildup in this lavish, dripping-in-gold drama from Zhang Yimou." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Overflowing with sumptuous visuals, chop-socky mayhem and the finest CG battle since THE RETURN OF THE KING, it's a lavish, lurid, eye-saucering spectacular..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "The director's attention to detail is exquisite, with so much on screen, you'll want to freeze frame every moment to take it all in."Ultimate DVD40.72426
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[Gong Li] bites into her role like a juicy apple. The great Chow Yun Fat is her match as the emperor..."Rolling Stone "[There is] ominous buildup in this lavish, dripping-in-gold drama from Zhang Yimou." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Overflowing with sumptuous visuals, chop-socky mayhem and the finest CG battle since THE RETURN OF THE KING, it's a lavish, lurid, eye-saucering spectacular..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "The director's attention to detail is exquisite, with so much on screen, you'll want to freeze frame every moment to take it all in."Ultimate DVD40.72426
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"The action sequences are often joltingly spectacular..." Premiere "[A] gorgeous entertainment, a feast of blood, passion and silk brocade."New York Times "Zhang reveals bold finesse at pulling off an emotion-charged epic of style and sophistication that is exciting and at times humorous."Los Angeles Times "[A}n orgy of spellbinding visuals: dazzling acrobatics, mesmerizing martial arts, sumptuous settings and resplendent costumes. With its high drama and historical setting, it is more like an opera than a movie."USA Today "[With] a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises....Prepare your eyes for popping." Rolling Stone "Zhang Yimou returns with another beautifully wrought incursion into classical Chinese folklore." Uncut "[A]n outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression....[With] a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action." Entertainment Weekly "HOUSE is lushly emotional, intimate and intricately tricked out....Zhang has always deployed colour and design with immense skill..." Sight and Sound "[T]he ravishing visual compositions add a magical note to this tragic tale." Movieline's Hollywood Life 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he real delight here is the inspired fights, the lyrical love story and the twisty-turny narrative."Empire40.72426
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"The action sequences are often joltingly spectacular..." Premiere "[A] gorgeous entertainment, a feast of blood, passion and silk brocade."New York Times "Zhang reveals bold finesse at pulling off an emotion-charged epic of style and sophistication that is exciting and at times humorous."Los Angeles Times "[A}n orgy of spellbinding visuals: dazzling acrobatics, mesmerizing martial arts, sumptuous settings and resplendent costumes. With its high drama and historical setting, it is more like an opera than a movie."USA Today "[With] a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises....Prepare your eyes for popping." Rolling Stone "Zhang Yimou returns with another beautifully wrought incursion into classical Chinese folklore." Uncut "[A]n outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression....[With] a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action." Entertainment Weekly "HOUSE is lushly emotional, intimate and intricately tricked out....Zhang has always deployed colour and design with immense skill..." Sight and Sound "[T]he ravishing visual compositions add a magical note to this tragic tale." Movieline's Hollywood Life 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he real delight here is the inspired fights, the lyrical love story and the twisty-turny narrative."Empire40.72426
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"Director Zhang Yimou packs this visual feast with fierce action and breathtaking beauty."Rolling Stone "HERO is one of the most beautiful and involving films of the year."Premiere "HERO is dazzling....A visually sublime, thematically simple and universally appealing work of art.A landmark piece of cinema."Uncut "The extravagant visual beauty of HERO is, in a way, its own reward....The cast is a parade of action stars in full charisma..."Entertainment Weekly "Filled with meticulous set pieces, including a showdown between Snow and Moon set among swirls of golden-yellow leaves, HERO is easy on the eyes."New York Times "HERO is a visual feast."USA Today "HERO is beautiful and beguiling, a martial arts extravaganza defining the styles and lives of its fighters within Chinese tradition."Chicago Sun-Times40.72426
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"...[Gong Li] emerges as a figure of astonishing fortitude....[THE STORY OF QIU JU] is exceptionally down-to-earth..."New York Times "...Masterful..." - Recommended Premiere "...An enthralling film of startling passion and bite....A movie you won't forget..." Rolling Stone "...The movie's style and narrative seem inspired by postwar Italian neorealism....Watching the film, we find the humor for ourselves..." Chicago Sun-Times "The story was filmed between RAISE THE RED LANTERN and TO LIVE during a fruitful collaboration between Gong and director Zhang Yimou."USA Today40.72426
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"...The skill with which Zhang finally unifies his two stories is a marvel to behold. So is Lu Yue's photography..." -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today "Crime drama has rarely been this gorgeously alluring -- or this brutal..." -- Rating: AEntertainment Weekly "...Assured and attention-grabbing....[The film] oozes a confidence that carries the viewer almost without pause to its shocking climax and ironic close..."Variety "...A masterpiece..."Film Comment "...SHANGHAI TRIAD, a great gangster film, evokes the most exciting, glamorous, dangerous, cruel and corrupt city on Earth during the 1930s..."Los Angeles Times40.72426
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"...The director finds poetry in the face of his lead actress, whose performance is as luminous and moving as the film itself..." Rolling Stone "...Tenderhearted....Seamless construction and exquisite tonal balance....Ms. Zhang's intensely concentrated performance conveys a current of stubborn, obsessive passion..." New York Times "...Zhang Ziyi proves in her film debut what a powerhouse force she is on-screen....It's a sweet tale..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...A work of poetic grandeur celebrating the natural magnificence of the rolling hills in which a primitive village is nestled....THE ROAD HOME is a paean to the power of love..." Los Angeles Times "...This is a gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds....[Ziyi's] glow is visible, lighting the road to stardom..." Entertainment Weekly40.72426
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang Yimou's visually stunning style is evident throughout his latest, and most ambitious film, THE FLOWERS OF WAR."Box Office "[T]he film finds plenty of moments in which Zhang's skill as a filmmaker and his deft handling and interest in female characters shines..."Movieline0.5754736
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang Yimou's visually stunning style is evident throughout his latest, and most ambitious film, THE FLOWERS OF WAR."Box Office "[T]he film finds plenty of moments in which Zhang's skill as a filmmaker and his deft handling and interest in female characters shines..."Movieline0.5754736
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang Yimou's visually stunning style is evident throughout his latest, and most ambitious film, THE FLOWERS OF WAR."Box Office "[T]he film finds plenty of moments in which Zhang's skill as a filmmaker and his deft handling and interest in female characters shines..."Movieline0.5754736
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang Yimou's visually stunning style is evident throughout his latest, and most ambitious film, THE FLOWERS OF WAR."Box Office "[T]he film finds plenty of moments in which Zhang's skill as a filmmaker and his deft handling and interest in female characters shines..."Movieline0.5754736
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"Maggie Cheung and Nick Nolte not only give two beautifully modulated performances here, they also serve as emotional compass points..." Film Comment "[T]he role is a plum -- and Cheung was rewarded with the prize for best actress at Cannes in 2004." Entertainment Weekly "A thoughtful, philosophic man with tough inner core, Albrecht brings out a side of Mr. Nolte rarely seen on the screen, and he gives a deep and touching portrayal..." New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Visually assured, beautifully acted, it's a movie of scrupulous straightforwardness..." Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Assayas' sometimes undemonstrative film derives a special edge from Cheung's performance..."Uncut Included in Premiere's "10 Best Movies Of The Year" -- "Smart, unsentimental, very moving, and entirely underseen."Premiere0.2079331
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"...Arguably the most compelling new Chinese film since the rise of the Fifth Generation..." Box Office "...A splendidly acted film....Mr. Zhang mingles powerful drama and courageous politics..." New York Times "...Stunning....The film is every bit as bold and daring as its making....EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE is a richly cinematic experience..." Los Angeles Times8.983953
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"[The film explores] the tension between tradition and modernity with insight and intimacy."New York Times8.971771
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"...Daring and complex....A probing and universal contemporary drama..." Los Angeles Times8.888524
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"[Q]uite entertaining, thanks to the director's eye for his city's battered glamour and the presence of a few skilled and good-looking Asian actors, principally the tough, fine-boned Zhang Ziyi."New York Times "As atmospheric and moody as a film noir...A remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s..."Los Angeles Times7.954111
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"[Q]uite entertaining, thanks to the director's eye for his city's battered glamour and the presence of a few skilled and good-looking Asian actors, principally the tough, fine-boned Zhang Ziyi."New York Times "As atmospheric and moody as a film noir...A remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s..."Los Angeles Times7.954111
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang is loveliness incarnate. And the great Michelle Yeoh, her co-star in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, possesses a touching gravity..." Rolling Stone "The exquisite Ms. Gong looks like a gift that keeps on giving when trussed up in silk, but she and the film come most alive when her hair tumbles down and she sashays about the okiya, stirring the air with her tremulous rage." New York Times "As beautiful-looking a film as you'll see....Often magical." Uncut "On the evidence of Marshall's film, the geishas are like highly trained birds kept in intricately woven bamboo cages; they are made temporarily fascinating by the skills of the film's true artists -- its troika of fine leading actresses..." Sight and Sound "Dion Beebe's gorgeous cinematography is delivered with sharp images..." Widescreen Review7.929805
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang is loveliness incarnate. And the great Michelle Yeoh, her co-star in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, possesses a touching gravity..." Rolling Stone "The exquisite Ms. Gong looks like a gift that keeps on giving when trussed up in silk, but she and the film come most alive when her hair tumbles down and she sashays about the okiya, stirring the air with her tremulous rage." New York Times "As beautiful-looking a film as you'll see....Often magical." Uncut "On the evidence of Marshall's film, the geishas are like highly trained birds kept in intricately woven bamboo cages; they are made temporarily fascinating by the skills of the film's true artists -- its troika of fine leading actresses..." Sight and Sound "Dion Beebe's gorgeous cinematography is delivered with sharp images..." Widescreen Review7.929805
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang is loveliness incarnate. And the great Michelle Yeoh, her co-star in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, possesses a touching gravity..." Rolling Stone "The exquisite Ms. Gong looks like a gift that keeps on giving when trussed up in silk, but she and the film come most alive when her hair tumbles down and she sashays about the okiya, stirring the air with her tremulous rage." New York Times "As beautiful-looking a film as you'll see....Often magical." Uncut "On the evidence of Marshall's film, the geishas are like highly trained birds kept in intricately woven bamboo cages; they are made temporarily fascinating by the skills of the film's true artists -- its troika of fine leading actresses..." Sight and Sound "Dion Beebe's gorgeous cinematography is delivered with sharp images..." Widescreen Review7.929805
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"On the evidence of Marshall's film, the geishas are like highly trained birds kept in intricately woven bamboo cages; they are made temporarily fascinating by the skills of the film's true artists -- its troika of fine leading actresses..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang is loveliness incarnate. And the great Michelle Yeoh, her co-star in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, possesses a touching gravity..."Rolling Stone "Dion Beebe's gorgeous cinematography is delivered with sharp images..."Widescreen Review "The exquisite Ms. Gong looks like a gift that keeps on giving when trussed up in silk, but she and the film come most alive when her hair tumbles down and she sashays about the okiya, stirring the air with her tremulous rage."New York Times "As beautiful-looking a film as you'll see....Often magical."Uncut7.929805
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"[A] work of creative imagination. Filled with strange and horrible visions, it's draws you in again and again." New York Times "Kekexeli is such a brutal, unforgiving place that it doesn't allow any film shot there to hold on to its innocence....The area's look is unsettling in its barren neo-lunar vastness."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his spectacularly-photographed, deeply moving tale makes no effort to hide its pedigree..." Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "Writer-director Lu Chan is a snappy storyteller, mounting some thrilling action sequences. And there's a keen moral ambiguity to the characters' deeds..."Total Film "[A] carefully composed melodrama, albeit one without any of the usual emotional excesses....A film that's all muscle and no flab."Sight and Sound6.885602
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