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Electric Shadows
Metascore
70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    88
    Xiao's bittersweet film is superficially a swoony love letter to the cinema. But her valentine has a hidden sting, rooted in some hard truths about movie mania.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    The Chinese pleaser Electric Shadows belongs to a genre they don't teach in film school: Triple S, as in sweet, sappy and sentimental.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    75
    Things take several turns for the worse as the story plays out, and the film loses much of its charm. But it's a fascinating artifact, and never more so than when it features clips from Chinese and, of all things, Albanian propaganda films.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Andrew Sun
    70
    With her debut, Xiao Jiang has created the Chinese equivalent of "Cinema Paradiso." The Beijing Film Academy graduate's confident first feature is a lovely, elegant paean to the joy and liberty that films offer as a symbol.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Plays as an enthralling but implausible Asian soap opera.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    70
    A fairly conventional heartwarmer, lifted by likable performances, good-looking production values and (for movie buffs) a story centered on an outdoor cinema in rural China.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    60
    Electric Shadows is committed to movies-as-escape swoonery, but the script's late disasters are also predicated on cinema and filmgoing, suggesting an ambivalence the rest of the film seems oblivious to.
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