Funny, surreal, and understated.

| Jun 3, 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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | 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

Not every idea pays off, but another is always coming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2021

Thoroughly enjoyable, "Dead Pigs" arises as the origin chapter of a great storyteller and an opportune mosaic of people in a rapidly transforming superpower.

| Feb 10, 2021

A bold social satire that never loses its sense of fun, Dead Pigs finally lets us confirm what Birds Of Prey already suggested: Cathy Yan has a sharp eye and a fearless voice - we're lucky to have her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2021

Pigs is an unassuming topical entertainment, but diverting and well-acted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2021

An antidote to China's weightier arthouse output, settling the stomach after too much stolid social realism, effervescent as an alka-seltzer.

| Jan 25, 2018

Delightfully quirky.

| Jan 22, 2018