Good Bye, Dragon Inn
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5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 5 out of 12

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  1. maegraukar
    Mar 7, 2005
    10
    MASTERPIECE. One of the best films ever made.
  2. ClintH.
    Jun 24, 2005
    10
    Beautiful and haunting.
  3. mosesl.
    Oct 10, 2005
    9
    One of the best of 2004, a tribute to the end of cinema and movie going before film became digital, and images on the screen and sounds behind the projector are essences of another time.
  4. DamonC
    Mar 29, 2005
    9
    This film, slow as it may be, is hilarious in many parts. There are just so many unexpected moments, satirically observed, analogous to how a murderer would stalk his prey, but in an arch B movie way. On the other hand, every characters is so real that there is a documentary feel to it - but of course, the very deliberateness of the framing and the stillness subvert that reading. Ultimately, the cumulative effect is one of longing, for something lost, for something never to be found alive again. It is a beautiful tribute to the past heroes of cinema, who are now merely ghosts slowly fading into celluloid.… Expand

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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
  1. 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.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    70
    An elegy for the days when Taiwan was a major East Asian film production center.
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  3. 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.
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