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92
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Critic Score

84
Critics' score based on 39 reviews.
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Led by director Zhang Yimou and dazzling cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the unseen Hero production team has made what just might be the most artistically sophisticated, most formally beautiful martial arts film the genre has seen.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

You can feel the movie's sensibility and its powerful emotions in every aching image, which leaves you so caught up in these ancient times, you're loath to return to present-day normalcy.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

A visual poem of extraordinary beauty.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

I wish 'Hero's emotional heat rose more intensely -- more recklessly. There's something grand but distant and almost fetishistic about the operatic solemnity with which Zhang approaches the Rashomonic story of assassins attempting to kill a king.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A dazzlingly lensed, highly stylized meditation on heroism.Full Review

Derek Elley
Variety
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