A haunting portrait of timely and timeless longing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 17, 2025

Wong Kar-wai is one of the best filmmakers from one of the most significant film movements... And, in my opinion, Chungking Express is his best film. Supposing one plus one still equals two, that makes this one of the best films ever made

| Jul 18, 2024

One of the greatest treasures of 1990s filmmaking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 30, 2023

…a minor miracle of modern cinema, a sweet-hearted lightheaded meditation of the ups and down of romantic love that should leave any audience walking on air…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2023

Not much more to say, “Chungking Express” is one of the greatest films of all time, a must-watch for every fan of cinema.

| Original Score: 10 | Dec 26, 2022

Chungking Express is a cut and paste [collage], or better yet, shoot and edit, that allows a look at the thirty-six-year-old filmmaker's soul... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 27, 2022

... a jazzy little cinematic improvisation on a themes of love, loss, connection, and the craziness of emotion.

| Jul 9, 2022

...a visually-striking drama that unfortunately grows less and less engaging as it progresses...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Whatever ineffable thing Wong Wong Kar-wai does-let's call it despondent extravagance-he distilled it into its purest form here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2021

It's all intoxicating.

| Jul 7, 2021

The masterful Wong Kar-wai crafts this exquisitely shot film - two films in one, really - into a meditation on love. Along the way, he uses music as only he can...

| Mar 29, 2021

Faye Wong is a real delight.

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

Chungking is sprightly and fast-paced, its understanding of time as malleable as its step-printed chase sequences that begin the film.

| Mar 26, 2021

Chungking Express feels like a blast of youthful energy. It operates like a '90s pop kaleidoscope, mixing romance, music, and melancholy into a noir-ish collage of color and emotion.

| Mar 24, 2021

Almost as much of a thrill as In the Mood for Love.

| Dec 16, 2020

Possibly the most endearing movie ever made, it's Wong Kar Wai's most exuberant work, an uncharacteristically sunny, whirling dervish of a picture positively drunk on its own technique.

| Dec 11, 2020

These flirtations may be as glossy and shallow as the soundtrack's pop songs, but they represent longings for magic, for transcendence, as deep as any 'California Dreamin'.'

| Original Score: A | Mar 23, 2019

From its photogenic actors to its pop soundtrack and breezy visual style, the movie is a lighthearted thrill, visceral, romantic and fresh.

| Aug 28, 2018

Chungking Express comes to town with a hip imprimatur and some admiring reviews. But this quirky, deadpan movie moves like a rickshaw with a geriatric hauler in harness.

| Jun 8, 2018

What Chungking Express has are a couple of interesting situations, which don't quite justify a feature-length movie.

| Apr 10, 2018