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80It's a terrific film because each of the characters is so fiercely felt.
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75Breathtakingly filmed (lots of slow-motion) by Wang Yu, but then it would be difficult to go wrong when your star is one of the world's most beautiful women.
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75An intriguing brain-teaser.
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Full of mystery, romance and ambiguity, Zhou Yu's Train is a tight mosaic of a film.
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70If Zhou Yu’s Train is finally no more than whimsy, it’s classy, delicate whimsy, a testament to the way romantic love, however unsatisfied, continues to drive itself.
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70Seems at once overwhelmingly romantic and elliptical, yet all the while it has been building to a conclusion that is surprisingly affecting in the jolt of recognition it elicits.
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63Lyrical, dreamy and too complicated for its own good.
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60Chinese thesp Gong Li goes for a striking career makeover in Zhou Yu's Train, a sensual, slickly packaged slice of Euro-style metaphysical cinema centered on a free-thinking woman and the two men in her life.
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58The movie follows convoluted narrative tracks. By the end of the drowsy journey, the characters are indistinguishable from the scenery.
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50Tells a pointlessly convoluted version of a love story that would really be very simple, if anyone in the movie possessed common sense.
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50Beautiful to look at but aimless as a broken compass.
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50Sadly, the combination of gauzy photography and cheesy music gives the film the aura of a fragrance commercial.
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50These are not the marks of true cinema; they're the makings of a droopy karaoke video.
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50An empty lake, drained of any tangible substance and refilled with wispy, pseudo-poetic metaphor.
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50Like some of Joan Crawford's and Bette Davis's studio vehicles, this soapy romance exists only for what Gong Li can bring to it: a certain amount of soul and nuance.
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Before dismissing Zhou Yu's Train as the over-conceived, over-edited, under-written perfume ad that it is, the following must be said: It's great to see Gong Li onscreen again.
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It's an unusual idea but fails -- Sun spends so much time on the mood and atmosphere that he forgets about the story.
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40While the film's erotic symbolism is surprisingly obvious -- all those trains and tunnels! -- it's otherwise bafflingly vague.
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40It just may be a movie that has difficulty transcending national borders.
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40Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies -- or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.
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38A ticket to this movie is a season's pass on that train - and you must complete every ride.
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Devolves from opaque mystery into boring melodramatics and incoherent contrivances.
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30Less a tale of mysterious, tragic love than a three-way Harlequin romance.
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