| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Wise, delicate and impeccably performed, Yi Yi is a three- hour drama that looks at one middle-class family in transition -- and does so with such a kind and probing eye that we all see our lives reflected through Yang's lens.
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| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
Yang favors a gentle and introspective style that shows how deep and strong everyday emotions can run. A memorable treat.
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| 100 |
The New York Times
In exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life.
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| 100 |
Salon.com
Quietly overwhelming.
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| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a magical film -- an exquisitely made and exceedingly wise family drama that communicates a touching sense of the universality of the human condition, and leaves us with the rich emotional satisfaction we just don't seem to get often at the movies anymore.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
Great, bittersweet family drama.
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
These 173 minutes don't drag, they waltz.
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| 94 |
Mr. Showbiz
The one movie so far this year that every filmgoer should see, if only to get a big dose of what we've been missing from Hollywood.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
On one level, Yi Yi is classic soap opera, with a suicide attempt, a wedding ceremony, even a brutal 11 o'clock news murder, all in the mix. But Yang's direction is so admirably restrained, it lends rich heft to everything.
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| 90 |
Village Voice
Although dense with incident and motif, the movie has an effortless flow.
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| 90 |
Newsweek
One of the year's best: a rich, funny, enormously humane portrait of a middle-class Taipei family in the throes of romantic, economic and spiritual upheaval.
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| 90 |
Film.com
David D'Arcy
More than a family saga, this is a family meditation.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
Generous, soulful film.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Wonderfully humanistic film. Yi Yi investigates the entire melody of life.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
Yang seems to miss nothing as he interweaves shifting viewpoints and poignant emotional refrains.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
A marvel of delicacy and humor.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
It may be the first meditative action movie.
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| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Yi Yi is an intimate movie, for all its length and complexity.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Only rarely is a film this observant and tender about the ups and downs of daily existence.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Passes like an evening spent with friends.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
Builds so gradually you probably won't realize it's a near-masterpiece until it's over, but there are hints along the way.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Capturing the nuances of quotidian life may not be everyone's cup of tea.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Presents an intelligent, profound and at times heartrending slice of Taiwanese middle-class existence - as seen by characters at different stages of life.
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