Lee is a filmmaker who understands the power of pure visual storytelling. Lust, Caution is a near perfect film with strong performances and a well-crafted narrative.

| Oct 4, 2024

Well-observed, luxuriously mounted, committedly languorous movie. [The] last shot... holds its breath, and shadow, for the proper, illuminating instant.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Lust, Caution’s explicit scenes mature into ballads of passion and love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 8, 2024

Lee has consistently demonstrated a certain talent for exploring human relationships, and Lust, Caution is perhaps one of his thorniest, most complex works.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2021

Alas, Lee would have benefited by showing more lust and less caution.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Lust, Caution is so ambitious and detailed that you'll never be bored.

| Aug 22, 2017

Lee is hot, engaged, emotional, sincere and fundamentally looking at any slice of life through a sexual lens.

| Original Score: 79/100 | Jul 11, 2012

Lee is hot, engaged, emotional, sincere and fundamentally looking at any slice of life through a sexual lens.

| Original Score: 79/100 | Jul 11, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Lovers of genuine cinema will get blue balls

| Aug 27, 2009

Though his direction is unsurprisingly beautiful, the settings lush and the performances wonderful, no one apparently had the guts to insist Lee streamline his rambling story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2009

La mano experta de Ang Lee logra sostener el relato durante sus dos horas y media de duración, con algunos picos de intensidad en un par de escenas brillantemente resueltas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2009

For all Lee's meticulous control over this immaculately nuanced melodrama-thriller, there is a surprising lack of emotional draw.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

What lingers is the suspicion that women carry a burden of war they can't ever put down, and that even noble idealists can justify turning their girls into whores.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 22, 2008

Lee provides no such easy comfort, instead keeping audiences constantly off-kilter, purposefully frustrating them with character behavior that's just...wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2008

Like the many facets of a diamond, the human heart can find its lustre in dark places. Ang Lee's tortuous film about love and betrayal takes passion through highs and lows as it leads us through its tense and riveting journey

| Jan 14, 2008

There's no doubt while watching Ang Lee's Lust, Caution that you're in the hands of a supreme filmmaker.

| Original Score: 66/100 | Jan 9, 2008

Lust - the word that speaks of inflamed passions, repressed longing and seriously naughty sex stands ill at ease with this rather languid exploration of freedom fighting during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the early 1940s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2008

You leave the theatre a trifle exhausted but rewarded by a resonance few films possess.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2008