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60
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69
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69
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22
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57
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91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
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83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
78
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77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
Lemon Tree
71
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71
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70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
$9.99
67
Rudo y Cursi
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
Sex Positive
65
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64
Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
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62
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62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
Sleep Dealer
58
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58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
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56
Girl from Monaco, The
56
American Violet
55
Brothers Bloom, The
54
Is Anybody There?
54
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54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Sony Pictures Classics
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for martial arts violence and some sexuality.
Starring
Chow Yun-Fat,
Michelle Yeoh,
Zhang Ziyi,
and
Chen Chang
In 19th century China, a magical sword given by a warrior (Chow) to his lover (Yeoh) is stolen and the quest to find it ensues. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story travels into a different direction with the introduction of a mysterious assassin and another love story.
| GENRE(S): |
Fantasy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Hui-Ling Wang
James Schamus
Kuo Jung Tsai
Du Lu Wang (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ang Lee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 5, 2001
Video: June 5, 2001
Theatrical: December 8, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China / Taiwan / USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Cantonese / Mandarin (with English subtitles) |
The film picked up four Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards, including one for Best Foreign Film. Its unprecedented (for a foreign-language film) 10 Oscar nominations in 2001 included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also picked up Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Foreign Film, and was named Best Feature at the 2001 Independent Spirit Awards.
Also known as "Wo hu zang long"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.

100
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it.
100
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.
100
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts.
100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Watching it is a nonstop high.
100
USA Today
Mike Clark
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin.

100
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.
100
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.
100
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.

100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A spell-binding, engaging and often breathtaking work in which exquisite sets, costumes, photography and music combine with top-notch acting and out-of-this-world fighting scenes.
100
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.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy.
100
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.
100
Film.com
Peter Brunette
The landscapes are so gorgeous, the philosophy so richly appealing, the narrative so epically sweeping, and the characters so intense.

100
Film.com
Gemma Files
This is a waking dream of truly operatic dimensions.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
The class act of action movies.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Magnificently nonchalant about its magic.

90
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Has the sprawling canvas of an epic and the emotional heat of classical melodrama.

90
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.

90
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The first Ang Lee film I've seen that I've liked without qualification.

90
Slate
David Edelstein
My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.

90
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.

90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A masterful synthesis of generic conventions and creative imagination, a sublime amalgam of some of the best tendencies and talent our times have to offer.

88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A soaring, exhilarating fantasy grounded in earthy emotion, Crouching Tiger more than lives up to the hype.
80
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
What about Ronny Yu's 1992 masterpiece "The Bride With White Hair," of which Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a decent facsimile?

80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Whenever Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon resorts to flying fists or soaring sword battles, the Force is definitely with it.
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
There's so much dreamy beauty in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that it's almost like a narcotic.

80
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.

80
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film satisfies on both visceral and emotional levels.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The film may be too talky for action-minded viewers and too fantastic for more serious spectators, but it brings appealing twists - including a feminist sensibility - to the venerable martial-arts genre.


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