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: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

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

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

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

What's most unusual about Beijing Bicycle in terms of recent Chinese history is that any form of class conflict is depicted at all.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2002

An uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the Italian masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 1, 2002

This film puts Wang at the forefront of China's Sixth Generation of film makers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2002

Well before it's over, Beijing Bicycle begins spinning its wheels.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2002

A classic romance always involves a certain formula: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. Beijing Bicycle is a romance, except the love interest is a bicycle and not a girl.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2002

Too simple for its own good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

This Chinese movie suffers a flat tire about halfway through.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2002

This is a moderately engaging tale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 1, 2002

[Wang's] reliance on sugarcoated music and his trite use of slow motion show that his heart lies in making undemanding fluff for the world market.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 1, 2002

Thoughtful and exhilarating.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2002

It tells a compelling story while making a devastating, entirely convincing argument about the corrosive effects of Chinese capitalism on traditional values and human dignity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2002

The tug-of-war at the core of Beijing Bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances, overheated pathos and long, wistful gazes.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2002