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20
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

86
Critics' score based on 23 reviews.
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The critics must be smoking something this was worse film I have ever seen. Kept waiting for something to draw me into the movie but it never... d. Full Review

April 05,2012
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I felt Iike I was at an elegant black tie cocktail party of pseudo artistic or pseudo-intellectuals where no one would acknowledge the existence of... n overwhelming odor of passed gas in the room; just awful and pretentious---the kid was cute. Full Review

May 22,2008
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Critic Reviews

Because it's one of the most beautiful films ever. Because it's a work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a painting by Rothko.Full Review

Washington Post

Because it's one of the most beautiful films ever. Because it's a work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a painting by Rothko.Full Review

John Anderson
Washington Post

Juliette Binoche is outstanding as a wildly untogether single mother who parks her son with a French-speaking Chinese nanny while she whirls and worries.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

It's both happy and sad. That's exactly the way to describe Hou's marvelous film as well.Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

The camera is so unobtrusive and the acting so naturalistic that it takes a while for a narrative to emerge. When it finally does, you're surprised to find you're deeply invested in the characters.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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