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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThis lighthearted tale of repressed sexuality and marital woes seems to have a different kind of agenda, even if it often fits the mode of your typical mainstream rom-com.
- 70VarietyMaggie LeeVarietyMaggie LeeAlthough the pacing is more laidback than in “Au revoir Taipei,” the humor more rooted in believable (if bizarre) real-life situations than in slapstick shenanigans, the comic timing remains spot-on and the jokes fetchingly offbeat in an utterly Taiwanese way.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe ending has a surfeit of sugar, but writer-director Arvin Chen's story jaunts along, a cheery rom-com tinged with dream visions and a somewhat daring conceit.
- 60The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldDutifully hitting its marks up to a point, this story of a married man struggling to stay closeted proves to have a maturity that eludes more overtly ambitious dramas on the subject.
- 50Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangLos Angeles TimesInkoo KangChen's excessive propriety veers treacherously close to barely disguised repulsion.
- 38Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinArvin Chen's Taiwan is dominated by eccentricity in tone and atmosphere, but in a very careful, pronounced way, as to never really run the danger of being truly strange.