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Not One Less
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring
Minzhi Wei,
Huike Zhang,
Zhenda Tian,
Enman Gao,
Zhimei Sun,
and
Yuying Feng
In a remote mountain village, the teacher (Gao) must leave for a month to care for his mother. The mayor can find only a 13-year old girl (Wei) to substitute, even though she is only a few years older than her students.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Xiangsheng Shi
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Yimou Zhang
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 22, 2000
Video: August 22, 2000
Theatrical: February 18, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Yi ge dou bu neng shao"; Golden Lion, 1999 Venice Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's an uplifting movie about the rewards of perseverance and community.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Has a slow-burning emotional power.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A beautiful and genuinely spirit-lifting film about poverty and education.

91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
If it touches up against the syrupy at a very few moments, it's nevertheless consistently clear-eyed and convincing.

80
Village Voice
Leslie Camhi
The film's occasional dips into sentimental cuteness and its too-pat ending can't cancel the gap that yawns ever wider between rural and urban society.

80
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
Zhang's work is always worth watching, but this is the first of his films in which the sorrows are so heart-rending, its many comic moments so laugh-out-loud human.

80
Film.com
Graham Fuller
Simple but charming.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Has a warmth and sweetness that is especially hard to resist.

80
The New York Times
A.O.Scott
A splendid, assured piece of storytelling.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
In many ways, Not One Less resembles the socialist-realist dramas of the early Communist regimes.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
It's an excellent movie for kids, because it is about how amazing children can be.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A sweet, lushly photographed but occasionally slow film.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Like a Sally Field movie by Vittorio De Sica: Zhang wants to affect you with the subtle sting of his politics.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
An empowering film for children, showing them at their most capable, working through problems and finding innovative solutions to overcome what seems like an insurmountable obstacle.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
In style and story line, the film is daring in its simplicity.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
His story is simple, unadorned, direct. Only the margins are complicated.

75
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
Zhang, who tried to make his actors as unaware of the camera as possible, lets the story evolve slowly and deliberately.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
This is much more than a typically one-dimensional message-movie -- it's obviously the work of a master filmmaker .

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
At first, the picture is moving. . And suddenly charm turns to quasi-commie didacticism.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Use of a loosely written screenplay and a nonprofessional cast in this picture weakens its dramatic appeal even as it lends authenticity and local color.

50
Time
Richard Corliss
To Western eyes, this meandering parable registers as a perplexity and a disappointment.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Its resolution reeks of phoniness and self-congratulation, even if some of the narrative strands leading up to it are fairly absorbing.


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