Matching, and at times exceeding Leung’s performance, is his sometimes scene partner, Zhang Ziyi.

| Feb 23, 2024

The hazy intensity of the saturated images, the enchanting soundtrack of lush lounge music, and Wong’s way of tilting intimate scenes with his skewed visuals, all create an atmosphere thick with longing and loneliness.

| Aug 19, 2023

...this film is a sweeping epic of melancholy beauty and textures filtered through and diminished by the passage of time.

| Sep 10, 2021

Nothing here hurts as much as it should.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2021

Few movies can transport you, even for a moment. 2046 does that and more, rooting you in its multiple realities in a way that feels real and easy to understand.

| Mar 31, 2021

Ambitious sequel to In the Mood for Love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2021

2046 is not so much a date as a place or a state of mind. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Cinematographer Christopher Doyle adds to the atmosphere using vibrant colors that seem to pop right off the screen, and Shigeru Umebayashi's lush score sweeps through the film like a master painter's brush.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous tale of romantic heartbreak is now finally ready to be released: the end result is a work which combines formal cinematic brilliance with an operatic intensity of feeling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

The ravishing images are tinged with regret and loss: no passion can assuage the jaded hero's solitude.

| Mar 14, 2018

Wwithout a doubt, it's seductively perplexing and devilishly good-looking -- and if you like it, you'll probably find that one viewing isn't enough.

| Mar 6, 2015

For all its balance and grandeur, 2046 is the most nervous of Wong's films.

| Nov 19, 2013

2046 thus comes to encapsulate everything to which Wong (and, in turn, his audience) keeps returning.

| Oct 26, 2011

In the mood for sublimity

| Sep 1, 2009

Seductive and luscious, a cinematic smorgasbord of sensuous delight.

| Original Score: 86/100 | Jul 21, 2009

The result is a sumptuous time-teasing story.

| Oct 18, 2008

Here, the mystery of the deepest recesses of human emotion are plundered for cinematic play.

| Oct 18, 2008

The romantic fatalism is so lush that you're invited to get lost in it.

| Jun 6, 2007

Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen.

| Apr 25, 2007

It may help if you grasp the many allusions to Wong's earlier films (including, notably, Days of Being Wild), but it's far from necessary. This, after all, is undeniably real cinema.

| Jun 24, 2006