The Road Home Critic Reviews

A gorgeous film with a vision strong enough to sustain heart-tugging, heightened by San Bao's romantic score, that verges on the sentimental.Read the full review

A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion.Read the full review

The result is an enchanting story of love from an idealized past that endures in the mundane present.Read the full review

This is a gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds, both natural and bureaucratic, in which the past represents enduring family values and customs.Read the full review

The director finds poetry in the face of his lead actress, whose performance is as luminous and moving as the film itself.Read the full review

A cinematic ballad of such seamless construction and exquisite tonal balance it transcends most of the pitfalls of movies that aspire to a classic, lyric simplicity.Read the full review

As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story.Read the full review

It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.Read the full review

It's a simple story, reminiscent of the Iranian film "The Wind Will Carry Us."Read the full review