The Grandmaster
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: August 23, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 23, 2013
Wong’s visual grandeur is, as ever, all-encompassing. Read full review
60
The DissolveKeith PhippsAug 22, 2013
Wong’s usual concerns overwhelm the film, and though his pairing of fisticuffs and longing is sometimes awkward, he surrounds the awkwardness with some of the most beautiful images in his career. In Wong’s world, beauty goes a long way. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 20, 2013
The Grandmaster, five years in the making, feels like a waste of Wong’s talents. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAug 21, 2013
Tony Leung plays Ip Man with his old-movie charisma and reserve, but the film, despite a few splendid fights, is a biohistorical muddle that never finds its center. Maybe that's because — big mistake! — it never gets to Bruce Lee. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoAug 29, 2013
The film is beautiful but troubled, achieving in stretches the director's signature dreamy mood but dragged down by narrative confusions. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaSep 2, 2013
The movie ultimately winds up falling between two stools, failing as both a biography and an action film. Martial arts fans will naturally be drawn to the story, but the film does nothing to open up the world to outsiders. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 30, 2013
The end result feels like only half a movie. That half -- the technical half, with Wong's stylistic flourishes and the film's lush technical elements -- is a heck of a film. The rest of The Grandmaster, however -- the storytelling -- is anything but grand. Read full review
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