Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Transcends its origins and becomes one of a kind. It's glorious, unashamed escapism and surprisingly touching at the same time.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Watching it is a nonstop high.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
At once elegant and sublimely silly, contemplative and gung-ho, balletic and bubble-gum, a rousing action film and an epic love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one bursting-at-the-seams holiday gift, beautifully wrapped by the ever-surprising Ang Lee.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- by light years the best movie of 2000.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Crouching Tiger is contemplative, and it kicks ass. Or put it this way: it's a powerful film and a terrific movie.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Magnificently nonchalant about its magic.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Crouching Tiger's blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had.Read Full Review »
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