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

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

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

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

A pleasure to watch a film as visually stylish as it is psychologically demanding. I wish it had been twice as long.

| Jan 4, 2008

A shocking disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2008

For his sheer muscular verve and ambition, Lee deserves a standing ovation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2008

Quietly mesmerising.

| Jan 4, 2008

The intensity of the sex is far more honest and revealing than the secrets each lover tries to hide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2008

A mesmerising study in emotional cruelty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2008

Its dark romanticism lingers in the mind.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jan 4, 2008

A beautifully rendered, long, drawn-out but ultimately very satisfying story of betrayal and revenge in an uneasy setting of wartime paranoia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2008

Overwrought and overlong, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution nevertheless has some moments of exquisite beauty and a potentially star-making performance from newcomer Tang Wei.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2008

Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off.

| Nov 7, 2007

In a film where casting is a vital component in the edgy equation, Leung and Tang make a picturesque and dramatically compelling couple.

| Nov 3, 2007

There is deception, suspicion and self-delusion, but it all seems rendered at arm's length, despite the consummate artistry of the filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2007

Why does this hot-and-heavy love story feel so cold and clipped overall?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Oct 20, 2007

Lust, Caution is a major film, but it feels like a minor work in Lee's canon.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2007

Both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story.

| Oct 20, 2007

There is plenty of lust exercised in the athletic, don't-try-this-at-home sex scenes between Hong Kong star Tony Leung and the stunning Chinese newcomer Wei Tang.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2007

The film looks gorgeous but the plotting is clumsy and the acting is flat.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2007