Tsai Ming-liangs largely dialogue-free Days speaks volumes, and Grasshoppers excellent home video release highlights the aesthetic and tonal complexity of its minimalist approach.

| Mar 4, 2022

There are no subtitles here, but subtitles also feel unnecessary because it's a really immersive experience.

| Aug 21, 2021

"Days" becomes such a resonant addition to Tsai's exhumed body of work because the filmmaker recognizes and embraces that uncharacteristically sentimental undertow.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 17, 2021

What "Days" gives us is something that can't really be intellectualized or even explained: a vision of grace that collapses the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the corporeal and the spiritual.

| Aug 13, 2021

To enjoy Days, you have commit to its earthy dream logic. It is an extraordinary movie; it is not an easy sit.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 13, 2021

The beauty of Tsai's approach, a taste worth acquiring, is the way he builds empathy for his characters by pulling us into their geographic, temporal, and by extension emotional space.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 12, 2021

As the action recedes, Tsai's empathy for his lost characters emerges.

| Aug 12, 2021

The movie's two final shots... are among the most striking evocations of the quiet anguish of loneliness that any form of cinema can offer.

| Aug 12, 2021

Like all of Tsai's films, this communicates feelings of loneliness and alienation inherent to the human condition; but perhaps more than any other, it revels in the corporeality of Tsai's performers...

| Oct 19, 2020

Days was a reminder of the profundity and the emotional eloquence of stillness and near silence: this is a film where you can sit at length marveling at the curve in a country road at night.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 6, 2020

Tsai Ming-liang seems to say that, even in a world rigged against queerness, certain things can't still be shared.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2020

It is somewhat ironic that for a film with next to no words, Days has a lot to say.

| Feb 29, 2020

A minimalist brain massage.

| Feb 28, 2020

Instead of leaning in, as I'm wont to do with challenging movies, I settled back into my chair and let the rhythm wash over me, lull me into its relaxing embrace.

| Feb 27, 2020