Even more than 20 years on, it is an exceptional film.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 4, 2023

Great tale of two boys' struggle over a bicycle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C- | Aug 7, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 58/100 | Mar 25, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

The film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence.

| Original Score: C | Mar 3, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2002

| Original Score: B- | Sep 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 9, 2002

An artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 28, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2002

The story has its redundancies, and the young actors, not very experienced, are sometimes inexpressive.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2002

With Beijing Bicycle, Wang has crafted a picturesque morality tale that slyly depicts the hopelessness of communism while pointing up the essential similarities between people of all classes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2002

Beijing Bicycle is a subtle, beautifully made film and a seemingly good-natured social commentary on contemporary Beijing. Unfortunately, it's pretty boring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2002

Make no mistake, [Wang's] camera is saying, and don't be deceived by the Communist rhetoric -- this city is as class-ridden as any in the West.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2002

While Wang Xiaoshuai's film doesn't plumb the depths, nor resonate with the kind of profound irony of Vittoria De Sica's 1947 classic, it is nonetheless an affecting, poignant drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2002