In the Mood for Love (2001) Critic Reviews

The most ingenious device in the story is the way Chow and Su play-act imaginary scenes between their cheating spouses.Read the full review

Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but.Read the full review

The result is a kind of ultimate romantic film, joining an almost Jamesian sadness and discipline to that extraordinary visual sensibility. It's not the kind of thing you see every day.Read the full review

The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty.Read the full review

Wong denies us the satisfaction of resolution, but in sharing his mastery of cinema, and his gift for conveying mood, desire and vivid emotions, he's more than generous.Read the full review

Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.Read the full review

A stylistically fastidious, exasperatingly affected package that will put most people in the mood for slumber.Read the full review

Excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it's all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.Read the full review