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  • Summary: A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China. (New Yorker Films)

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    90
    Unknown Pleasures suggests a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism. The film is both distanced and immediate -- a fiction with the force of documentary.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    60
    Perhaps the world doesn't need another picture on disaffected youth, but Pleasures is about more than alienation.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    25
    The film drags and lingers and goes more or less nowhere, imitating its protagonists' lives so exactly that you want to give them both a good smack.

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