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100A great love story and a deeply moving celebration of simple lives.
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91Shines with the kind of honesty that's very scarce in today's ultra-manipulative cinema.
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90A gorgeous film with a vision strong enough to sustain heart-tugging, heightened by San Bao's romantic score, that verges on the sentimental.
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90The result is an enchanting story of love from an idealized past that endures in the mundane present.
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90A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion.
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88The Road Home takes a path few movies choose to travel these days, but it's a very affecting journey.
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88It's the rare film that trusts both its audience's intelligence and its emotions.
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83This is a gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds, both natural and bureaucratic, in which the past represents enduring family values and customs.
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80The flutes soar a little too often, but Yimou's film is genuinely moving.
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80The director finds poetry in the face of his lead actress, whose performance is as luminous and moving as the film itself.
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80A cinematic ballad of such seamless construction and exquisite tonal balance it transcends most of the pitfalls of movies that aspire to a classic, lyric simplicity.
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78Abundant arthouse crowd appeal.
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75Has a graceful simplicity that many will find hard to resist.
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75With so many cynical Hollywood romances cluttering theaters, Zhang Yimou's unabashed simplicity is most welcome.
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75The lyrical The Road Home is less political and less flashy than some previous films by Zhang Yimou.
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75It's a simple story, reminiscent of the Iranian film "The Wind Will Carry Us."
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75It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.
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75As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story.
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70The result is an interesting, if slightly unbalanced, hybrid: a social problem film with the warm heart of a deeply felt love story.
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70Takes the simplest of stories and weaves a seductive, extremely moving portrait of a young woman’s unshakable love.
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60A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.
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50Predictable, not so much from his (Zhang Yimou) previous movies as from the work of the many sentimentalists who have already plowed this well-tilled turf.
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40The Road Home is foremost enthralled, however, with its lead actress -- wide-eyed and pigtailed, revered in close-up after stunned close-up.
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40Sad to say, the story is simply too slight to sustain the film.
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30By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
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