Anchored by two strong performances...Qu rarely veers away from one girl or the other, a smart and sensitive decision to witness and digest the world from that perspective.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2018

Shooting largely with a handheld camera, Qu generates a jittery energy that makes the characters' stress palpable. This feeling escalates as the investigation closes in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2018

Qu fleshes out her characters to expose the societal and familial pressures that tend to limit options for females.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2018

In its perceptions and mood, "Angels Wear White" plays like acutely serious female noir.

| May 17, 2018

A tough and unsparing drama that vividly brings to light the kind of narrative too many people have endured over the years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2018

As a writer-director, Qu never pulls her punches, while keeping the bad guys and their horrific violence at the edge of the frame.

| May 3, 2018

This all sounds grim, and it is. But the story grabs you. Ms. Qu shoots the sturdily constructed scenario with unshowy sharpness.

| May 3, 2018

Qu unpacks much that matters in Angels Wear White, including the abuse of power and importance of status and wealth in Chinese society, but her most thoughtful, nuanced observations involve female sexuality.

| May 2, 2018

[Qu] handles difficult subject matter with heft and grace in equal measure, giving voice to her film's victims without defining them as mere damsels.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 27, 2018

Qu's vision is sympathetic to her characters' struggles, yet her social commentary is savage, subtle and precision-tooled.

| Oct 13, 2017

In an intriguing film noir full of white light reflecting off virginal dresses, polished surfaces and sparkling sand, director Vivian Qu probes the status of girls in Chinese society.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2017

A brave and hard-hitting drama that provides a social context for violence against women.

| Sep 7, 2017

Luminously filmed but restrained to a fault, this is the kind of drama that suggests something about the difficult position of women in China, but what exactly the film wants to say is harder to pin down.

| Sep 7, 2017

[Qu] pulls no punches in her tentacled piece, and it leaves a livid mark.

| Sep 7, 2017