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100Rapturously elegant and deeply sexy in a deliciously restrained way. One of the most romantic movies I have ever seen, right up there with "Brief Encounter"and "Casablanca."
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100A feast for the eyes and succor for the soul.
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100There may be no more sensual director in the world today than Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai.
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100Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.
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100Excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it's all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.
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90Her (Cheung) gorgeously sad face and slow, lithe frame are the movie's hammer and chisel. One shot of her walking away from a rented room down a hallway is, all by itself, twice the movie of anything else currently in theaters.
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90Smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
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90It is undeniable in its poignancy, an ecstatic vision of what might have been, though as much for its story as for the fact that the whole thing dissolves like a paper fan in rain, an evanescent masterwork.
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90The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty.
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90A wondrously perverse movie that not only evokes a lost moment in time but circles around an unrepresentable subject. Mood is the operative word. A love story far more cerebral than it is emotional.
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90It's a masterpiece, a sublime tone poem that shows what cinema is capable of when it tries to do more than just tell a story.
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90The result is a kind of ultimate romantic film, joining an almost Jamesian sadness and discipline to that extraordinary visual sensibility. It's not the kind of thing you see every day.
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90This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition.
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90The sexiest movie of the year.
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88A love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound.
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88All about mood, and not one bit about action - which explains why it's at once both the most passionate film of the year so far, and the most determinedly inert.
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83Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but.
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80It's extraordinarily sexy: The atmosphere is all cigarette smoke and Nat King Cole songs, silk suits and tight sheath dresses.
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80Wong weaves a spell that no other director could create.
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78A stylistic tour de force, one that wordlessly emotes and wears its emotions on its literal silk sleeves.
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75The most ingenious device in the story is the way Chow and Su play-act imaginary scenes between their cheating spouses.
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75Shimmers and glows. But it also stings a little -- like the lovely flame that dies and the smoke that, in yet another Cole song, gets in your eyes.
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75The story gains most of its dramatic impact from superbly understated acting and Christopher Doyle's atmospheric camera work.
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75Wong denies us the satisfaction of resolution, but in sharing his mastery of cinema, and his gift for conveying mood, desire and vivid emotions, he's more than generous.
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63A dreamy, ravishing ode to romantic longing, and it is bound to frustrate people who like their movies to get to the point, or at the very least have one.
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50A stylistically fastidious, exasperatingly affected package that will put most people in the mood for slumber.
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50In the Mood for Love has novelty value, I suppose, and plenty of pretty camera moves, but it's not really a movie you can warm to.
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