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New York Daily News
Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
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New York Post
You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it.
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Rolling Stone
Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.
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Baltimore Sun
Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts.
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Boston Globe
Watching it is a nonstop high.
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USA Today
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- by light years the best movie of 2000.
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Newsweek
At once elegant and sublimely silly, contemplative and gung-ho, balletic and bubble-gum, a rousing action film and an epic love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one bursting-at-the-seams holiday gift, beautifully wrapped by the ever-surprising Ang Lee.
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Entertainment Weekly
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year.
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Portland Oregonian
A spell-binding, engaging and often breathtaking work in which exquisite sets, costumes, photography and music combine with top-notch acting and out-of-this-world fighting scenes.
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| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Transcends its origins and becomes one of a kind. It's glorious, unashamed escapism and surprisingly touching at the same time.
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Chicago Tribune
Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy.
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Time
Crouching Tiger is contemplative, and it kicks ass. Or put it this way: it's a powerful film and a terrific movie.
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Film.com
The landscapes are so gorgeous, the philosophy so richly appealing, the narrative so epically sweeping, and the characters so intense.
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Film.com
This is a waking dream of truly operatic dimensions.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The class act of action movies.
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Washington Post
Magnificently nonchalant about its magic.
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LA Weekly
Has the sprawling canvas of an epic and the emotional heat of classical melodrama.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Crouching Tiger's blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had.
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Chicago Reader
The first Ang Lee film I've seen that I've liked without qualification.
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Slate
My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.
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Variety
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.
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The New York Times
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
A masterful synthesis of generic conventions and creative imagination, a sublime amalgam of some of the best tendencies and talent our times have to offer.
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| 88 |
Miami Herald
A soaring, exhilarating fantasy grounded in earthy emotion, Crouching Tiger more than lives up to the hype.
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Dallas Observer
What about Ronny Yu's 1992 masterpiece "The Bride With White Hair," of which Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a decent facsimile?
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Mr. Showbiz
Whenever Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon resorts to flying fists or soaring sword battles, the Force is definitely with it.
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| 80 |
Salon.com
There's so much dreamy beauty in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that it's almost like a narcotic.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.
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TV Guide
The film satisfies on both visceral and emotional levels.
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Christian Science Monitor
The film may be too talky for action-minded viewers and too fantastic for more serious spectators, but it brings appealing twists - including a feminist sensibility - to the venerable martial-arts genre.
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