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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2005

Bogs down badly as we absorb Jia's moody, bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Formally ambitious and emotionally engaging.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2003

Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2002

It helps that the central performers are experienced actors, and that they know their roles so well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2002

Presents a side of contemporary Chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists, and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2002

... mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return.

| Original Score: A | Dec 12, 2002

The asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2002

Ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of Chinese 'cultural revolution.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2002

A surprisingly touching film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2002

Intriguing in concept ... [and] just as compelling in execution.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2002

A brave experiment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2002

Daring and beautifully made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2002

Less than fresh.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2002

If Quitting isn't worthy of affection exactly, it's worthy of respect, as director Zhang Yang plays with the structural elements of the story as well as notions of fiction and fact.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

It further declares its director, Zhang Yang of Shower, as a boldly experimental, contemporary stylist with a bright future.

| Oct 11, 2002

Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2002