[Cathy] Yan mines pathos with a light touch and critical eye toward globalization, rapid change, and wealth inequality in an emerging superpower.

| Jul 28, 2024

[Doesn't have] a plot to propel it forward so much as principals who cross paths, clash, and tug the narrative this way and that. But at least they’re lively and compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2022

Yan's delightful musical and narrative riffs of American comedy are also a homage, and are represented in Joe Yao's production design...

| Aug 4, 2021

Strong acting and distinctive rich direction tie these handful of quirky street level story lines together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2021

Caustic but ultimately warm-and-fuzzy, Dead Pigs is a splashy, antic, enjoyable film that only overplays its hand with too many narrative bow-tying contrivances at the end.

| Jun 4, 2021

Funny, surreal, and understated.

| Jun 3, 2021

Yan has made an engaging hodge podge of a film.

| May 27, 2021

Dead Pigs is a hilarious and biting satire of late-stage capitalism

| May 26, 2021

A fluid, funny film that also plays with visual flamboyance, a relevant soundtrack, and cunning acting to make its point.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2021

Yan fashions a quirky, engaging and feisty tale that unites the plights of kooky characters coping with an ever-changing city, country and culture. It's quite the ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2021

Dead Pigs delivers a story that is thought-provoking, decadently stylish, sprightly poignant, and joltingly funny.

| Feb 19, 2021

Some directors look on the loneliness and soullessness of modern life and despair. Cathy Yan giggles.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2021

The result is an ensemble piece that is quirky and funny as it is compelling and gritty.

| Feb 18, 2021

A work of ebullient satire and quietly stirring humanism, as well as a trenchant study of China's frenetic modernization as a horror show in progress, one that's every bit the equal of America's own late-capitalist nightmare.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 17, 2021

A unique and idiosyncratic work which served to put an exciting filmmaker firmly on the map.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2021

Yan's debut as a writer/director is a mostly sturdily constructed, and deftly edited, series of 'meanwhiles,' a sprawling narrative of loosely and closely connected people whose lives intertwine in a variety of ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2021

Dead Pigs is a charming, quirky, and unique directorial debut from Cathy Yan and is another sign of her promising future in cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2021

Dead Pigs's intermingling of grit and polish is hugely satisfying: a potent combination of pearls and swine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2021

A great first feature from Cathy Yan, Dead Pigs paints a vivid backdrop of globalization, wealth inequality, and the anxieties of a dual Eastern and Western existence.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 11, 2021

It's a tonal wild ride with eccentric characters, neon-lit settings and elaborately absurd detours. Unfortunately, the ripped-from-the-headlines meat of "Dead Pigs" gets lost in these affectations.

| Feb 11, 2021