Eternal Spring succeeds as history made tangible, shareable, and, of utmost importance here, personal.

| Jul 12, 2024

There’s no way to sugarcoat this. Eternal Spring is a Falun Gong propaganda film.

| Mar 11, 2023

Twenty years on, Loftus retraces events through the harrowing story of Falun Gong member and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), using eye-catching 3D animation inspired by his work. Tune into Chief Critic, Jason Gorber's review:

| Feb 18, 2023

Part documentary, part animated feature, this quite powerful film, written and directed by Jason Loftus, is an insider’s account of the persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong by the Chinese authorities.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2022

A powerful critique of state oppression.

| Dec 9, 2022

Eternal Spring artfully articulates a people’s hunger for change.

| Dec 8, 2022

The final mixed-media project is thrilling, mesmerizing, and heartbreaking as Daxiong brings the audience through an incredible journey of human resilience in the face of insurmountable circumstances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2022

Within the narrower confines of one talented artist’s reckoning with his birth nation’s painful recent history, however, it remains a stirring piece of work...

| Nov 30, 2022

Eternal Spring is a beautiful film about freedom. It’s also a film that is currently flying under the radar, rife with controversy but is well worth seeking out for a serious evening of cinema.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 17, 2022

Aside from the great animation and music, the film brings to light an unprecedented story of defiance, including eyewitness accounts of persecution, to highlight the determination of those involved to speak up for political and religious freedoms.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 14, 2022

A worthy story told with grace and compassion but lacking in conviction and artistic acuity, this is a predictable, resolutely middlebrow documentary about a subject that deserves much more.

| Nov 8, 2022

As stylish, impressive, and cinematically compelling as (the) film happens to be, reality catches up to the artistry and leaves a sour, unrelenting bitter taste in the mouth.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2022

For a film with such a forceful and felt political message, Eternal Spring could have gone into much more depth about the politics surrounding the persecution of Falun Gong.

| Nov 1, 2022

The film may be compelling and eye-poppingly inspired for what’s onscreen, but Eternal Spring is also quite troublesome for what it never mentions about the Falun Gong.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2022

I's a chronicle of what it means to be on the receiving end of real oppression, wrapped up in a crime procedural... a film that demands to be seen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2022

The film plays out like an elaborate heist thriller, and it's all true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2022

The story of Eternal Spring deserves to be told -- but Loftus’ film falls victim to the kind of insidious propaganda members of Falun Gong once tried to fight.

| Original Score: D | Oct 24, 2022

Distinctively incisive on an emotional level, the film applauds the bravery of its participants to relive a painful shared trauma and create a permanent testament of what they endured.

| Oct 21, 2022

A vivid, troubling documentary that reconstructs how Chinese activists hijacked the airwaves of state 온라인카지노추천 in the northeastern city of Changchun in March 2002.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2022

Usually, it takes rear-view mirror reflection and sometimes years of assessment to label any work of art a “masterpiece,” yet “Eternal Spring” is exactly and immediately that. It’s easily the most daring, moving, and creative movie of its kind ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 14, 2022