Zhou Yu's Train Critic Reviews

It's a terrific film because each of the characters is so fiercely felt.Read the full review

An intriguing brain-teaser.Read the full review

Seems at once overwhelmingly romantic and elliptical, yet all the while it has been building to a conclusion that is surprisingly affecting in the jolt of recognition it elicits. Read the full review

Chinese thesp Gong Li goes for a striking career makeover in Zhou Yu's Train, a sensual, slickly packaged slice of Euro-style metaphysical cinema centered on a free-thinking woman and the two men in her life. Read the full review

The movie follows convoluted narrative tracks. By the end of the drowsy journey, the characters are indistinguishable from the scenery.Read the full review

Tells a pointlessly convoluted version of a love story that would really be very simple, if anyone in the movie possessed common sense. Read the full review

An empty lake, drained of any tangible substance and refilled with wispy, pseudo-poetic metaphor.Read the full review

These are not the marks of true cinema; they're the makings of a droopy karaoke video. Read the full review

Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies -- or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.Read the full review