Lost in Beijing
New Yorker Films | Release Date: January 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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70
VarietyDerek Elley
Money (and maybe a little bit of love) makes the world go around in Lost in Beijing, an involving, highly accessible portrait of an emotional menage a quatre in the modern-day Chinese capital. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
In spite of its raw, explicit moments, the film is at heart a sturdy morality tale about innocence and corruption, wealth and want, sex and power. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Part soap opera, part sitcom and part relocated French farce. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
The script by first-time director Li Yu and producer Fang Li introduces some degree of subtlety in the responses of the four principals, but the plot doesn't really hold up. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
The prevalent shooting style is monotonous naturalism, as the camera buzzes between contentious actors and trolls after anything on the move. No performance registers quite so much as the capital city itself. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The story is contrived. Would you believe a high-rise window-washer just happening to be cleaning the window of the room where, at that very moment, his wife is being raped by her boss? Didn't think so. Read full review
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