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Green Dragon
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49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    80
    This is a story about purgatory, though it goes by the name Camp Pendleton.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    75
    Director Timothy Linh employs a delicate - but never sentimental - touch which, combined with strong performances from the principals and Kramer Morgenthau's vivid cinematography, makes for a transporting experience.
  4. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Green Dragon is Bui's recreation of Camp Pendleton, circa 1975 (filming actually took place in Camp Pendleton).
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    60
    An ultimately moving drama about a displaced people. But its emotional kick is muffled by long-windedness, sentimental overkill and an overpopulated character gallery.
  6. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Takes a humane look at an episode in recent history that's received little attention.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
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  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    The downside is that many of these characters are hastily sketched and their stories unsatisfactorily developed.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    50
    Green Dragon's portrait of refugee angst is decidedly glossy; the grief and lostness are glimpsed rather than explored.
  10. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    50
    The film is often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the American "hosts" and their "guests," but its effect is diluted by slow pacing and lengthiness.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    The characters are put through worn-out cinematic paces, making both them and their tales tedious. Green Dragon plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    30
    Loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.
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