The action plays out in a succession of ravishing set pieces, from moonlit rooftops to the whispering fronds of a bamboo forest.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2024

Whether its ending is tragic or hopeful depends on your interpretation of events. It’s the perfect conclusion for a nearly perfect movie that is all about journeys and paths not taken, about love and all that stands in its way.

| Original Score: A | Feb 1, 2024

There is something unworldly about [Tiger] that makes it seem like a story you imagined, not a film you watched on a screen. Somehow, the film is transcendent -- but in a completely straightforward manner. Quite simply, this is the year's best picture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 30, 2023

It's a lush, striking homage to a genre that by the new millennium had already been dead except for the intermittent throwback-style film.

| Jul 18, 2023

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was groundbreaking for its time... Lee did an incredible job bringing something new and fresh to action movies.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 25, 2023

As Lee stretches the limits of practical effects with a little bit of digital tweaking, it’s not just that these scenes hold up.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2023

Characters... pick up swords or machetes, pirouette in air, fly across rooftops, tumble and counter-tumble in battle with those who might stunt their learning; dip toes like pebbles skimming across placid ponds... further into this impossible past.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 24, 2023

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is a dazzling accomplishment that has aged like wine. The combat scenes are among the best in their genre, but so too are the performances, the character arcs, and the clever deconstruction of familiar tropes.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 24, 2023

What to say about this cinema legend in re-release but "magnificent." The feminist statement, the fight choreography (ballet-like in parts), the magical realism (superheroes b/f those films) and Michelle Yeoh! It has everything everywhere, to use a term.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 22, 2023

A masterful and emotionally sumptuous work that will continue to stand the test of time.

| Feb 18, 2023

Director Ang Lee has fashioned a high-flying, hard-kicking, backflipping extravaganza that somehow never neglects the complex, human side of its combatants.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2023

...a product of the maximalist approach to movie-making.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 17, 2023

Crouching Tiger is feminist, erotic, and mythical, all at the same time.

| Feb 15, 2023

It's at once pulpy and profound, a movie that never forgets to have fun even as it's tackling such straight-faced issues as honor, devotion and compassion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 9, 2023

Ang Lee's dreamlike film transcends its hybrid roots; it's unlike anything you've seen before.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2021

Each scene has very specific, intense stakes involved, which makes them that much more dramatic.

| Dec 9, 2020

By casting Chow Yun-fat-maybe the biggest marquee name outside the US at the time-Lee found a star who could unite all the elements of this feminist Qing Dynasty epic.

| Sep 16, 2020

I cannot express to you how beautiful and stunning it is.

| May 18, 2020

These scenes define their own reality - the performers glide across walls, treetops and ponds while lashing out in full flight - but crucially, never inspire disbelief.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2020

Lee's spin on the Hong Kong action film is a subversive, delicately stated coming-of-age story.

| Jan 29, 2020