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Good Bye, Dragon Inn
Metascore
82 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    This is a funny, sad, stunningly smart movie about the end of movies, made in Tsai's inimitable, unblinking style. No movie lover should miss it.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    90
    A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    90
    Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly still.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    90
    For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    88
    A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    88
    A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.
  7. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    80
    Wry and haunting.
  8. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    80
    Tsai Ming-Liang always makes you feel that there's a world of life beyond his movies -- a world populated by ghosts that are as real as we are.
  9. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    80
    It could all be done much more efficiently, but any other approach would lose Tsai's unique mix of stone-faced comedy and dewy-eyed lyricism.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    A loving tribute to cinema by Tsai Ming-liang, one of Taiwan's most accomplished and popular directors.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody.
  12. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    At once an elegy for the communal experience of cinema-going and another quintessentially Tsai portrait of loneliness and isolation.
  13. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    70
    An elegy for the days when Taiwan was a major East Asian film production center.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ethan Alter
    70
    Though the film's deliberate pace is sometimes frustrating, it casts a quietly powerful spell and the memory of its images lingers provocatively long after they've flickered into darkness.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    70
    This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor.
  16. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    70
    Tsai's film is not free of longueurs, but like much modern work in almost every field, these stretches are deliberate assaults on conventional expectation.
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5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 5 out of 11
  1. MattJ
    0
    Total crap.
  2. Panda
    0
    This movie makes no sense, there were a few funny moments but a complete waste of time nonetheless. Who stands in front of the urinal for 15 minutes and makes people watch that crap?… Full Review »
  3. BrandonP.
    0
    This is not a film about the end of movies. This is the end of movies. This is a film where the director stops caring about his audience, in place of lazy pretentiousness. This is a case of a writer so confidant that critics will read deeply into his film that he creates no actual meaning at all. This is the case of editors giving up on appropriate timing and rhythm so much so that it creates a visual representation of nails on a chalkboard. And if you really think a limping woman walking up stairs for an extended period of time is that funny, than you have a very dull sense of humor. Hollywood’s films may have become stale, but we should not react to it by giving praise to this kind of crap. Finally, the inside of a movie theater is the single least interesting location for an audience to watch while sitting in a movie theater. I love film, I love independent film and I love foreign film, but this is the single worst movie I have ever seen. I am almost offended that this was made at all.… Full Review »
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