Look at Me is sly, discomfiting and a great exploration of fame and beauty.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2005

Viewers who don't mind reading subtitles will be rewarded as they gradually get sucked in by the lush cinematography and a first-class, heartfelt story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2005

The beauty of Huo Ji Anqi's film transcends China's lush Hunan province to focus on the peace that comes from within.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2005

It's a beautiful, slightly devastating parable.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2005

A single, potent image can encapsulate an entire movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2005

Recommended without reservation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2005

A quietly touching little Chinese film that wrings considerable beauty and poignancy from seemingly the simplest of subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 15, 2005

The sentimentality is made palatable by the shrewdly low-key approach...unlikely to bowl you over, but in its quiet, unassuming way it may touch your heart.

| Original Score: B | Jan 4, 2005

The simplicity of Postmen in the Mountains is much of the film's charm.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 31, 2004

A film so simple and straightforward that its buried emotions catch us a little by surprise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 31, 2004

It's a beautiful journey that nicely captures the passing of the baton from one generation to the next.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 31, 2004

This is an achingly gorgeous film of great eloquence and simplicity.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 23, 2004

It's a love letter to the myriad ways, large and small, that mail handlers change lives the world over.

| Nov 18, 2004

Predictable in its themes and execution, Postmen in the Mountains is nonetheless quite moving thanks to its gorgeous cinematography and a story that manages to be emotionally resonate despite its familiarity.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2004

A work of exquisitely wrought simplicity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2004

Nicely shot without over-poeticizing the landscape, and unaffectedly played, it's a gentle character piece, sans grand emotions and stressing conservative values.

| Nov 4, 2004

Beautifully shot in austere, yet lush, mountainous territory, the movie quietens the spirit into almost trancelike contemplation of the huge emotions that surge through the most insignificant lives.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2004

It's a simple tale of father-and-son bonding that director Huo Jianqi injects with a quiet power, and it benefits greatly from the gorgeous lushness of its backdrop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

This sentimental tale of a rural mailman is set in the south-central Hunan province of China.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2004

The notion that every generation is fundamentally the same gets hammered home so relentlessly that it becomes suffocating,

Full Review | Oct 19, 2004