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

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

A languid, shimmering mood piece from a master stylist, with some of Asia's finest actors at their peak.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Wong offers an artful meditation on the nature of love, making effective use of color schemes (yellows, greens and reds), placid shotmaking and diverse music to deliver a sultry portrait of postwar Hong Kong.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2005

As memorable and emotionally intense as any of Wong's films. It's a mood as much as a movie.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

A riot of sight and sound that, however baffling, has an irresistible, elemental pull.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 24, 2005

[Zhang's] identity is so strong that it seems to hold the story together most of the time; it really should have been only about her.

| Sep 9, 2005

In a film that likes teasing mysteries, the greatest revelation is Ziyi Zhang.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2005

It's all terribly atmospheric, and if you're in the mood for atmosphere, 2046 delivers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2005

It's like a sketchbook. These are images, tones, dialogue and characters that Wong is sure of, and he practices them, but he does not seem very sure why he is making the movie, or where it should end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2005

At its best, it drenches the screen with sensuous poetry and touches a core of sadness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2005

Think of it as a visual tone poem about longing and loss, a journey through a vale of luminously beautiful tears.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2005

2046 isn't entirely successful: It's very high-concept and can be difficult to follow. But when it was over, I immediately wanted to watch it again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

Some directors wouldn't know a true love story if it smacked them in the face like a big sloppy kiss.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

A letdown.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2005

Lovelorn loneliness has never been this mouth-watering.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2005