Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

That's another thing about Wong: even when you're not quite sure what he's trying to say, or if he actually has anything to say, you get your money back in the beauty with which he says it.

| Sep 19, 2008

As visually lush and distinctive and enveloping as you would expect from a Wong Kar-wai film, with space for performances that have impact.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2008

[A] flaky disaster.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2008

The casting problem starts with the movie's lead, Norah Jones.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2008

But it's not the English that seems to trip up the writer-director; it's the language. Wong's script, co-written with Lawrence Block, tosses out the filmmaker's genius for non-verbal characterization and replaces it with talk, talk, talk.

| May 1, 2008

My Blueberry Nights can be sexy as hell, but for the first time in a Wong film, I felt duped for being so easily seduced.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 25, 2008

Only in flashes does Wong Kar-Wai let you forget about the relentless, meticulous beauty long enough to lose yourself inside it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 18, 2008

Wong Kar Wai's strange pastry-filled reverie My Blueberry Nights is not for those who like movies in which things happen; rather, it's for those in a mood to float, sometimes deliciously.

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

Few directors regularly exploit so well film's capacity for capturing the present and the past in the same instant. Wong is plugged into a special zone that feels that joy of experience and the pain of recollection simultaneously.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2008

For all its implied weightiness and melancholy, My Blueberry Nights is a confection that leaves you feeling empty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 18, 2008

Though it's beautifully shot (and characteristically drenched in red-orange light), the characters gently bump each other away, like slow-rolling billiard balls.

| Apr 18, 2008

My Blueberry Nights is Wong Kar Wai's first English-language movie. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also his worst movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

It's a store-bought bakery-window display cake, infused with flavor essences and color-enhancers. (Is there a cinematic MSG that intensifies the sweetness of eye candy?)

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

Yes, if another filmmaker had made My Blueberry Nights, I would probably be able to recommend it, but knowing what Wong Kar Wai's capable of, I just can't shake the bitter feeling left by this sweet treat.

| Apr 18, 2008

The Hong Kong director's efforts to transplant things to a distinctly American tableau fail. Prettily, but miserably.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 18, 2008

A star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes.

| Apr 17, 2008

I think there's a lot of miscasting going on here.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2008

Wai fills the void with pointless slow-mo shots while pushing his real talent to commit over-acting hara-kiri with syrupy drawls and nonsense perspectives

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 11, 2008