This cinematic achievement, which leaves a lasting effect on the spirit, reminds us of the tremendous depths of the human heart and the persistent appeal of what might have been.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2024

Sumptuously shot in tight corners, cramped corridors and tiny alleyways for maximum intimacy, the unspoken longing of the star-crossed lovers is both palpable and poignant, though the rushed ending somewhat undercuts the glorious build-up.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2024

The heterodox style collapses time on itself—prolonging the marital collapses of the two couples and expanding the potential for a union between [the two main characters].

| Jul 9, 2024

The film's indisputable beauty radiates with a burning glow that emanates from its charismatic lead actors. "In The Mood For Love" was an instant classic when it premiered at Cannes in 2000. It remains Wong Kar Wai's finest cinematic achievement.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Jul 1, 2024

Maggie and Tony live in illusion, painfully prolonged out of fear of dying from disappointment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 17, 2023

In the Mood for Love is probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.

| Jul 17, 2023

In the Mood's exquisite refinement adds a new hue to Wong's rainbow while doing no harm to his reputation as the reigning king of pure, unfiltered cinematic cool.

| Jul 15, 2023

In the Mood for Love excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it's all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.

| Jul 15, 2023

Wong Kar-wai's graceful cinematic poem is one that should be savored.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2023

If it is possible to find the erotic register of despair, or the romantic dimension of ennui, then Wong Kar-wai certainly achieves it in his new film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2023

It is undeniable in its poignancy, an ecstatic vision of what might have been, though as much for its story as for the fact that the whole thing dissolves like a paper fan in rain, an evanescent masterwork.

| Jul 15, 2023

Their pain borne with grace and their rapture held in check are revealed as vividly through the two stars’ radiant stillness as from the nocturnal glow of Wong’s poised, tense images.

| Jul 15, 2023

A picture that's about the spaces between people, the emotional connections not made, the cataclysmic effect of one hand withdrawing from another. In other words, not the most plot-driven picture ever made.

| Jul 15, 2023

Some viewers will feel frustrated -- and the degree of frustration the audience feels may be in direct correlation to the filmmaker's success.

| Jul 15, 2023

This is Wong's seventh film, and his work grows more intoxicating each time around. Little happens in his movies, and yet you can't tear your eyes away from them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2023

You can see the suffering, yet you don't feel it. A love story without the hint of tear. But for all that this is an accomplished and memorable film.

| Jul 15, 2023

It's the rare intelligent movie which rejects thinking in favor of looking and feeling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2023

Wong casts a hypnotic spell in In the Mood for Love, but it's a spell that even he can't keep intact forever. The movie's final half-hour becomes rather diffuse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 15, 2023

Ambiguity is this filmmaker's byword, and secrecy is the film's ruling theme.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2023

Frankly, I could have used a bit more action this time around, but I'm just a materialistic Yankee. And I have to confess I was never bored and often enthralled.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2023