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83
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Critic Score

64
Critics' score based on 15 reviews.
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In observing the reality of this relationship, Wang contemplates the "generation gap" in modern societies all over the world. His film quietly, carefully, movingly observes how these two people of the same blood will never be able to understand each other, and the younger one won't even care to.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

A spare, controlled study in communication gaps and a piercing sketch of suburban American loneliness.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Rich in revealing detail and apt in its use of everyday Spokane settings, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers shows that Wang remains a master explorer of the landscape of the human heart.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

The movie is almost willfully dull, for its real subject is everything we never say to our parents, or they to us.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Has a jangly, improvisational tone, with nuanced moments of humor and pathos.Full Review

Reyhan Harmanci
San Francisco Chronicle
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