78
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute.
- 80VarietyVarietyWith a pronounced Baroque palette and his usual astonishing use of light, picture looks ravishing -- individual scenes make a deeper impact than the characters themselves.
- 80The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenTsai’s drama is something like a mixture of Robert Bresson and R.W. Fassbinder, as God’s bedraggled souls struggle with the desires of the damned, and nobody wants to go into that good night alone.
- 67The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe film ends so beautifully that it's easy to forgive the dead passages that preceded it and hope it carries over into his next movie.