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

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

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 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

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

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

It's style over substance to be sure, but damn if it isn't a really cool style.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2007

Even those wary of [director] To's eastern/western ethos cannot help but admire the stern panache of the best sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2007

This flamboyant, Peckinpah-ish ode to male bonding has a melancholy, fin de siècle splendor.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2007

It just wasn't enough. I've seen these kinds of moments before (many of them in some of the director's better films) and I hardly ever felt my blood pressure rise above room temperature watching this one uncork its ample supplies of ammunition.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2007

It's a boozy, weekend-bender of an action flick, lovely to look at and perhaps just a little bit silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Exiled is a grabber from start to finish that should win new fans for cult-favorite To.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2007

The Macao settings are beautifully rendered, and the dark humor is often very funny.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

This tale of childhood buddies turned hit men is the kind of film where flames roar, waves crash and dropped bullets thud like bowling balls.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2007

I'd put [Johnnie] To's Exiled into the category of Hong Kong movies that even people who think they don't care about Hong Kong movies should see.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2007

[A] high concept fusion of gunplay and road trip camaraderie.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2007

One of those wearisome Hong Kong action movies where characters engage in Mexican standoffs not so much to ratchet up excitement or generate tension but rather to look cool for as long as possible.

| Original Score: C | Aug 29, 2007