Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a meditative, impactful farewell to a cinema in Taipei and exerts even more resonance when looked at through the lens of the past year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2024

Beneath the steely surface of Tsai’s aesthetic, Goodbye, Dragon Inn reveals itself to be full of the little plots that make up life as we understand it...

| May 9, 2022

Discarding plot in favoring a procession of finely evoked resonances with histories political, aesthetic, and personal, all flowing through a shared experience of a memorialized work of art, [it] makes much of seemingly little by attuning itself to loss.

| Mar 24, 2022

This melancholy, meditative piece is considered one of the greatest Taiwanese films ever.

| Feb 11, 2022

This is a trippy, elusive and ultimately very moving film that will start pollinating your dreams and quite possibly change the way you experience going to the movies.

| Sep 8, 2021

An outstanding movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2021

You'd never think a spacious, mostly empty movie theater could feel so tight.

| Feb 8, 2021

As one is reminded throughout Goodbye, Dragon Inn, even when one goes to the movies alone, one does so to find a connection with others.

| Dec 23, 2020

A wonderful celebration of the tiny joys and frustrations which make cinemas such magical places.

| Nov 19, 2020

Tsai Ming-liang's stultifying Good Bye, Dragon Inn captures none of the magic of film despite being set in a movie palace on its final day of operations.

| Mar 16, 2020

It is a film that does have an effect, but it requires a hell of a lot of patience.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 18, 2020

This elegiac 2003 comedy, by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, is a requiem for a movie theatre.

| Jun 2, 2014

What's the matter with these people? Why are they such a bunch of zombies?

| May 5, 2010

Long, boring shots. Reallllly long boring shots. Woman walks up stairs, woman walks down stairs. The end. Bleh.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2006

Plays as a meditation on the deep feelings felt by the viewer and the filmmaker towards the movie experience.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 24, 2005

It's not a sentimental ode to the cinema like "Cinema Paradiso." It's more like "Cinema Purgatorio."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2005

Everywhere, Tsai [Ming-Liang] lingers long enough to risk driving his audience to distraction, and I am afraid I succumbed early.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2005

A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2005