Revisiting the painful aftermath of Vietnam from the perspective of American-bound refugees, Timothy's film is an honorable if not great companion piece to his brother Tony's Three Seasons; both films played at the Sundance Festival dramatic competition

| Original Score: B- | Dec 26, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

One of the best films of Swayze's Career....Not to be missed

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2005

I've yet to find an actual Vietnam War combat movie actually produced by either the North or South Vietnamese, but at least now we've got something pretty damn close.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place.

| Aug 2, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2002

An honest, sensitive story from a Vietnamese point of view.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 26, 2002

Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 25, 2002

An inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of Vietnamese refugees living in U.S. relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975.

| Jul 20, 2002

Flawed but worthy look at life in U.S. relocation camps.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 19, 2002

Just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety, it dives into soapy bathos.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2002

A lyrical, bittersweet film about what could be termed a by-product of battle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Drives for the same kind of bittersweet, conciliatory tone that Three Seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2002

The images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos, particularly where Whitaker's misfit artist is concerned.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2002

[A] strong and touching film.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2002

A deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2002

Although tender and touching, the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2002

The somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make Green Dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment.

| Jun 15, 2002

In the end, the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived, as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2002