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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Starring: Jared Harris, Yu Xia
  • Summary: Set in 1902, this comedy centers around the arrival of a Westerner who introduces silent films to Imperial Peking.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Sumptuous, warm, continually amazing, it's a completely enjoyable couple of hours at the flickers.
  2. It's a film about culture clash, the generation gap and the loss of tradition that inevitably accompanies the arrival of anything new.
  3. 75
    Succeeds as a paean to movies and movie-watching.
  4. 60
    Shadow Magic is rich with detail.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3

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