About love acutely desired in youth and fiercely remembered in old age… delicately simple and emotionally satisfying.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

A layered, delicately but surely romantic tribute to the simplicity and grace of a bygone era.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 20, 2001

Celebrates a beauty and heroism around us that we often miss in both our movies and our lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 19, 2001

Zhang Yimou focuses so frequently on Ziyi's face in extreme close-up that she sticks like a daguerreotype to your retina -- and then your heart.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 19, 2001

A gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 28, 2001

Of course, the past always looks better in retrospect, especially to those who have never done without indoor plumbing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2001

Zhang brings to it his masterly gift for visual composition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2001

The film is laced with gentle humor, and its simple story is built on a sure foundation of humaneness.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

This is a film that rescues love from the world of clich and treats it with the awakening passion it deserves.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2001

As luminous as the star presence at its center.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2001

Has deep rewards for those who surrender to its lulling rhythm.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2001

The Road Home yields its pleasures slowly, opening in wintry black and white before ripening into a miracle.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2001

It works. It feels like a slice of life.

| Jun 4, 2001

Zhang Ziyi proves in her film debut what a powerhouse force she is on-screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2001

A moving love story that is as simple in its narrative gestures as it is rich in color composition.

| May 25, 2001

A beautifully simple romantic fable set in 1958 China in which the lovers are never seen touching, much less kissing -- yet it can move you to tears.

Full Review | May 25, 2001

The film is also a showcase for Zhang Ziyi, who is never less than enchanting.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 25, 2001

Ms. Zhang's intensely concentrated performance conveys a current of stubborn, obsessive passion lurking behind Di's girlish wide-eyed innocence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2001