Exiled takes the familiar story of a mob hit gone awry and tells it with such artfulness and virtuosity that it feels like nothing you've ever seen before.

| Oct 17, 2018

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Exiled veers on the pretentious ...but the whole thing has such a humor about itself that it's hard to carp about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/6 | Jan 18, 2008

An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 21, 2007

Johnny To's direction is as smooth as a well-cut suit and the violence has a balletic intensity.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

A simmering pot of blood and yucks, accented with guitar and harmonica on the soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2007

Less a movie than a phantasmagorical dream synthesised from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 14, 2007

The finale is a slow-motion tour de force that blends style, elegance and nuance of character in showers of blood.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2007

A brilliant reminder of the glory days of Heroic Bloodshed ... call it a flashback, a comeback, or the end of an era; all I know is that I want to see it again.

| Sep 13, 2007

It's a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it's a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 13, 2007

... possibly the best work the prolific filmmaker has done. In addition to the masterful blend of humor and action ... Exiled is the most beautifully shot movie so far this year.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2007

It looks slick, but without a little more steak beneath that sizzle, the pretense becomes intolerable.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 8, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2007

Exiled is creative and bizarre, maybe too bizarre, but since most action films adhere to a cookie-cutter formula, its quirkiness is most welcome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2007

To packs the moments of contemplation with as much suspense as the action sequences and is a master of ratcheting up tension through small details.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2007

To is doing exquisite and exciting work at a mind-boggling rate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Johnnie To, the director, is highly respected in this genre, and I suppose he does it about as well as you'd want it to be done, unless you wanted acting and more coherence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

This 2006 Hong Kong-produced gangster film by director Johnnie To, set in Macao, is an entertaining product that presents a powerful artistic vision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Heroic redemption succeeding where several thousand rounds of 9 mm ammo fail, Exiled makes a mark with the last stand of pals doomed by fate and the changing hands of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 7, 2007